The Project Walk Institute of Spinal Cord Injury Recovery is a program dedicated to exploring, expanding, improving, and setting the standard for the field of spinal cord injury recovery. Physical Therapists and certified exercise professionals participating in the Institute are educated on the latest SCI research and The Dardzinski Method™ of spinal cord injury recovery, a method developed and practiced only at Project Walk and its Certified Provider Centers.

In the past, SCI recovery or, rather, the little that was expected of it, was based on the principles of occupational medicine. Persons with SCI were taught to cope and live with their injuries. Today, recovery is an option for those wishing to obtain it. Yet, those that choose recovery do not have many choices available to them due to the lack of qualified, trained professionals. There are approximately 11,000 injuries each year in the United States* and currently the only certified SCI recovery professionals available to work with those injuries are found at Project Walk and Project Walk’s Certified Centers. The Project Walk Institute of Spinal Cord Injury Recovery is changing that through its multiple educational programs designed to train physical therapists and certified exercise professionals to meet the specific needs of spinal cord injured clients all over the world.

Project Walk is the only center in the world where exercise/fitness professionals can study The Dardzinski Method of spinal cord injury recovery under the close supervision of Project Walk Certified SCI Recovery Specialists™. Certified SCI Recovery Specialists (CSRS™) are experts in The Dardzinski Method and the field of SCI recovery with years of experience and thousands of hands-on training hours. Project Walk Certified SCI Recovery Specialists are innovators of SCI recovery who, collectively, have worked with, and researched, hundreds of clients from all over the world to produce consistent, groundbreaking results. Simply put: they are the best in the world at what they do.

At the top of this page you will find links to the various levels of certification that Project Walk offers. Please click on these links to find out how you can become a Project Walk Certified SCI Recovery Trainer™.

- Please note: Currently Certification Courses only take place during the first and third weeks of each month -

PREREQUISITES: Those who would like to particiapte in Project Walk's certification program must have a Bachelors Degree in an exercise science program, be a licensed physical therapist OR hold an exercise training certification from one of the following agencies: ACSM, NSCA,NASM, or ACE.

Still not sure if becoming a Project Walk Certified Trainer is for you?

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