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This document outlines a set of consensus-based recommendations used to support the design, conduct, and reporting of high-quality, safe, and inclusive exercise-based RCTs involving people living with spinal cord injury. The recommendations were developed by an interdisciplinary expert working group through a structured, multistep process informed by the best available evidence, methodological standards, and expert consensus along with input from people with lived experience of spinal cord injury. Information in this document is based on material published in Ponzano et al. (2025): Ponzano, M., Nash, M. S., Bilzon, J., Bochkezanian, V., Davis, G. M., Farkas, G. J., de Groot, S., Jin, J., Larsen, C. M., Laskin, J., Ma, J., Nightingale, T., Postma, K., Smith, B. M., Strøm, V., van den Berg-Emons, R., Wouda, M., & Martin Ginis, K. A., on behalf of the ISCoS Physical Activity Special Interest Group. Consensus-based recommendations for designing, delivering, evaluating, and reporting exercise-intervention research involving people living with spinal cord injury. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2025;106:491-506. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2024.11.006