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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.

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

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

The 35th Annual National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic will look a bit different but the mission remains the same. This year’s five-day event, sponsored by VA and DAV, will be held virtually.

This spring, nearly 400 disabled Veterans spent a week challenging and overcoming perceived limitations through adaptive sports.

Annual clinic is a world leader in adaptive winter sports instruction for injured Veterans. It’s therapy that gives freedom to heroes who fought for our freedom. Includes Nordic skiing and sled hockey.

Battlefield acupuncture is a subset of ear acupuncture that is easily performed with only five paper-thin needles inserted into specific points around each ear.

“Don’t let age define what you can or can’t do," says the he 92-year-old legally blind Veteran. "Do what you can do, and if you can’t, find something else to do.”

William Márquez attended the Winter Sports Clinic for the first time this year. When asked who helped him make it from the U.S. Army to the slopes of Snowmass, Colo. – he credits “a cast of thousands”. However this cast of thousands did not include the VA until recently.

More than 600 volunteers participated in various capacities during Winter Sports Clinic, helping register people, aiding Veterans in and out of equipment, fulfilling transportation needs and guiding participants to their sports activities.

This Army Veteran joined the military at 19 because he wasn’t sure what he wanted to do.Now, he’s 22, recovering from a brain tumor and he just wants to walk.