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Veterans build friendships and camaraderie through recreational activities like fishing to help cope with Mental Health and find support and well-being.

Should brain injury caused by a blast wave from an explosion be considered distinct from a TBI caused by a physical impact?

Army Veteran in study focused on mindfulness and sailing for Veterans with PTSD and other mental health conditions. “A tool I can use.”

While treatment for headaches is available at all VA medical centers, seven hospitals are specifically working to help polytrauma and TBI Veterans.

Veteran Earl Fred won first place at the Montana VA creative arts competition, with an invitation to the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival.

Veterans at Battle Creek VA are using music to help them navigate mental and physical challenges.

Army Veteran Chad Stuart uses the new Neuro Rehab Virtual Reality XR therapy system. It’s part of a larger plan to better serve spinal cord injury disorder patients.

Before recovery, Veteran surrounded himself with people who enabled his opioid addiction. “If you hang out in a barbershop, you are going to get a haircut.”

Creative arts therapies provide personalized opportunities for Veterans’ reintegration, adaptation, improved coping, and general wellness.

While many health care organizations are just beginning to explore virtual reality, augmented reality, and other immersive technology (collectively known as extended reality, or XR), VA is taking the lead in using XR to change how Veterans receive and access their health care.

VA’s Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Programs provide intensive 24/7 services for Veterans working toward recovery.

Throughout the history of Veterans health care, sports have long served as a means of rehabilitation and healing. While many sports and recreational activities have been incorporated into the fabric of Veterans hospitals, one sport in early VA history stands out for its popularity and impact on Veterans – baseball.