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.
Did you know that February is Recreational Therapy Month? […]
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.
After a lifetime of playing music, Roland Jackson attends VA's National Veterans Creative Arts Festival to perform for his fellow Veterans
Navy Veteran Gabriel George came to the National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic this year filled with energy and excitement. George’s says his first time at the clinic was life-changing.
The first day at the National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic […]
VA, the Blinded Veterans Association and Team River Runner were instrumental in helping the group reintegrate and to accomplish the unthinkable.