EXFRM 2717 Spinal Cord Injury Management
This course introduces rehabilitation and healthcare professionals to managing and treating people with spinal cord injuries. You’ll learn how to assess and classify spinal cord injuries, identify key impairments, and create care plans for managing common chronic conditions. The course also covers strategies for functional training and explores current practice guidelines and adaptive technologies used in spinal cord injury care.
Course Registration
Registration now available for the following sections (see details under 'How to Register')
- September 7 - October 16, 2026
- October 19 - November 27, 2026
- January 11 - Februry 19, 2027
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Course Hours
The course is approximately 12 content hours. Completion times amongst individual participants vary however 35 educational hours appear on the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine digital certificate issued after successful course completion. A digital badge issued by UofA CE is also available through MyCreds.
Course facilitator
Kim Dao, PT, DPT is a Board-Certified Clinical Specialist in Neurologic Physical Therapy with more than fifteen years of clinical practice in acute care, rehabilitation, and outpatient settings.
She taught at the University of Alberta for over eleven years and is currently an Assistant Professor with the Doctor of Physical Therapy program at Tufts University. Her teaching focus is on neuroscience, neuromuscular practice management, aging, complex conditions, and
prosthetics and orthotics.
More Information
Step 1: Complete and submit the faculty course application form
EXFRM 2717 CE Unit Application
Step 2: Proceed to create a UofA CERegister account
Step 3: Register for a course section on CERegister
Cost $285
Visit UofA Continuing Education for information on course withdrawal, refund, and transfer policy.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand how to assess and classify spinal cord injuries and set functional goals.
- Recognize key impairments and know how to manage them in acute and subacute care settings.
- Learn strategies and techniques for functional training in people with spinal cord injuries.
- Know how to prevent chronic conditions in patients with spinal cord injuries.
- Create care plans to manage common chronic conditions.
- Understand how patients with spinal cord injuries can effectively use assistive and adaptive technology.
This course is delivered 100% asynchronously meaning there is no requirement to be online at a specific class date and time. Participants can complete the learning activities in a place and time of their choosing. Content is accessible twenty four (24) hours-a-day from any location with an internet connection.
There are no grades for this course. Instead, students receive a complete or incomplete score based on satisfactory completion of the course. To successfully complete the course students are required to work through all learning activities and achieve 60% on all the knowledge check quizzes at the end of each module. Students are given unlimited quiz attempts and can challenge these at any time throughout the course.
Upon completion of each module participants will be issued a faculty digital certificate noting the number of educational hours.
Contact us at sdrefs@ualberta.ca.