Useful websites

details: QASA is a co-ordinating, policy-making, governing and supporting organisation. This website provides some great manuals and teaching material for people with SCI, including for people who are illiterate.
URL: www.qasa.co.za/index.php

details: This International Network is devoted to improving the transparency of research reporting. They work closely with the Cochrane Collaboration and NICE.
URL: www.equator-network.org/

details: Patient decision aids are tools that help people become involved in decision making by making explicit the decision that needs to be made, providing information about the options and outcomes, and by clarifying personal values. They are designed to complement counseling from a health practitioner.
URL: decisionaid.ohri.ca/index.html

details: The International perspectives on SCI aims to assemble and summarize information on SCI, in particular the epidemiology, services, interventions and relevant policies, together with the experiences of people with SCI. It also makes recommendations for actions based on this evidence.
URL: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/international-perspectives-on-spinal-cord-injury

details: This is a very informative blog written by an Australian who has been a C6 quad for 25 years. He is totally independent and talks in detail about how he achieved and maintains his independence.
URL: www.theindependentc6.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/the-independent-quad-c6/

details: ESCIP Trust India is a non-profit organisation in Delhi, India that provides peer-mentoring opportunities for those living with spinal cord injuries so that they can become advocates in their local and on-line communities.
URL: www.escip.org/

details: Evidence Based Medicine is an approach to forming medical knowledge, based on systematic and unbiased methods of appraising scientific evidence. It addresses the problems of medical practice based on tradition and personal opinion.
URL: bestbets.org/background/evidence-based-medicine.php

details: To aid you in finding the instrument that is right for your study, Mapi Research Trust created the PROQOLID database in 2002. It has grown exponentially over the years and today more than 800 Clinical Outcome Assessments (COAs) are comprehensively described, providing its users with two levels of in
URL: www.proqolid.org/

details: This website is for Clinical Educators (CEs) supervising physiotherapy students during their professional practice placements.
URL: http://www.appeducation.com.au/videos.html

details: UK Consumer's organisation. Website contains lots of great videos on wheelchair skills and many other things
URL: https://www.backuptrust.org.uk/support-for-you/wheelchair-skills/wheelchair-skills-videos