Adaptive Sports

Marine Veteran proudly competed at the National Veterans Golden Age Games on behalf of Choctaw Nation and earned gold medals.

By Mike Richman Navy Veteran Angela Walker is competing in […]

By Mike Richman Only a year ago, Casey Chamberlain was […]

Staff Sergeant Tom McArthur of the Alaska Air National Guard […]

A unique technology, TetraSki provides independent turning and speed variability using a joystick and/or breath control, using a sip-and-puff technique.

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

Prosthetics for women Veterans include customized orthotics and artificial limbs and post-mastectomy items. Also, mobility aids such as walkers and wheelchairs. And hearing aids and eyeglasses.

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The annual competition is one of the most progressive and adaptive rehabilitative senior sports programs in the world, and hundreds of Veterans from across the country are expected to take part.

Presented by VA and Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA), the world’s largest sports event for Veterans who use wheelchairs.

Orlando Perez speaks about wheelchair basketball and how adaptive sports eventually took him to the slopes of Aspen for the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic.

His sculpture, Beat,depicts a human heart molded out of discarded orange medicine bottles that beat with pulsating light, the piece cautions about the potential overuse of prescription medicine.