Goals - The Spaulding New England Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center (SNERSCIC) is a unique, high-volume SCI center with strong collaborative capabilities. We will thus enroll 50+ persons annually with follow up rates exceeding SCIMS benchmarks, complete our site specific and SCIMS chosen modular projects, and translate knowledge for the SCI community.
Objectives - Developed with the input of those with SCI, our site-specific project is an important contribution to physical and psychosocial health. Specifically, we will evaluate the trajectories of
functional transition from rehabilitation to community via digital phenotyping. This will provide insight to the factors that allow for successful transition the community and forms a predicate for chronic disease management. Our modular project is complimentary to this focus and will assess changes in social networks after an SCI, and our extraordinary academic resources provide the ability to participate in virtually any modular project chosen by the SCIMS. We will continue to refine our extensive program of disseminating clinical and research findings by working with the MSKTC and developing our online modular teaching, podcast, and social media.
Outcomes - Measurable results of this project will be: 1. National database contributions and productivity, 2. Examination of the trajectories of those transitioning home via digital phenotyping, 3. Assessing social networks and the role they play in health after SCI, 4. Translating knowledge via academic- and person- focused products, leveraged via collaboration with the MSKTC.
Products - This work will result in presentations, publications, a changed care paradigm for those with SCI, online modular teaching, a worldwide knowledge in motion educational series for those with SCI, podcasts and social media.