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  • Veterans find confidence on the slopes

    Veterans find confidence on the slopes

    The slopes of the Winter Sports Clinic help Veterans with disabilities remember that pushing boundaries—and not their limitations—is what defines them.

  • Veterans find hope and healing on the slopes as Winter Sports Clinic kicks off in Colorado

    Veterans find hope and healing on the slopes as Winter Sports Clinic kicks off in Colorado

    Nearly 400 Veterans from across the country have gathered in Snowmass Village for the 39th Annual National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic. This premier adaptive rehabilitation event, co-presented by VA and Disabled American Veterans (DAV), continues through April 5.

  • Miracles on a Mountainside, at the Winter Sports Clinic

    Miracles on a Mountainside, at the Winter Sports Clinic

    Watch this conversation between the Under Secretary for Health and participants of the 2024 Winter Sports Clinic.

  • Army Veteran amputee focuses on Paralympic dream, future goals

    Army Veteran amputee focuses on Paralympic dream, future goals

    Winter clinic helped amputee Veteran look forward to more accomplishments and creating a non-profit organization.

  • VA Leading the Way: Adaptive Sports helps Veteran fight to live his life

    VA Leading the Way: Adaptive Sports helps Veteran fight to live his life

    Army Veteran John Wade participated in the 38th annual National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic, continuing to live his life to the fullest.

  • Vietnam Army nurse takes to the mountain to ski

    Vietnam Army nurse takes to the mountain to ski

    After Addison’s Disease and lumbar spine surgery, nurse Veteran Gayle Smith re-learned how to ski. “You have more courage than you think.”

  • National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic

    National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic

    VA, DAV, co-host National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic, a world leader in adaptive winter sports. The clinic showcases the health and rehabilitative benefits adaptive sports provide Veterans.

  • Facility dog is Winter Sports Clinic Veterans’ best friend

    Facility dog is Winter Sports Clinic Veterans’ best friend

    Colorado VA facility dog brings love and comfort to disabled Veterans at home or on slopes of the Winter Sports Clinic.

  • Bootloaders get Veterans to the top of the slopes

    Bootloaders get Veterans to the top of the slopes

    Special team of volunteer bootloaders prepare disabled Veterans for a day on the slopes of Winter Sports Clinic.

  • Robotic leg helps Veteran ‘feel’ amputated foot

    Robotic leg helps Veteran ‘feel’ amputated foot

    Researchers performed experimental surgery implanting electrodes into a Veteran with an amputated foot, hoping that they would pick up his brain’s electrical signals.

  • #VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Edward Klein

    #VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Edward Klein

    Today's #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Edward "Flip" Klein, who served in Afghanistan in 2012.

  • VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Dave Nichols

    VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Dave Nichols

    Today's #VeteranOfTheDay is Dave Nichols, a resilient Army Vietnam War Veteran and avid adaptive sports participant.

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Last updated April 15, 2025

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