Rehabilitation

Hear from Veterans who have survived multiple serious injuries and how VA is helping them in the Polytrauma program.

Dangerous blood sugar levels, then a severe infection, then amputation. Through it all, Marine Corps Veteran is optimistic and grateful to VA.

New Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Clinic more than triples previous clinical space and includes an Activities of Daily Living clinic.

Your expertise as a physician assistant can be applied to numerous specialties within VA, all of them helping Veterans find the care they need.

VA works to build a better future for Veterans through research in four key areas — biomedicine, clinical sciences, health services and rehabilitation.

Jake served in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. After separating from service he was injured and partially paralyzed. He came to VA for help, and received much more than he expected.

Telehealth makes it easier for Veterans to connect with their VA care team. That’s why more Veterans are turning to telehealth. Here are a few ways Veterans are using telehealth right now.

Veterans in the Rubber Band, a 20-member musical group of Vets 70 and older at VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, find that it’s fun and therapeutic to write and play their own music.

Army Veteran Candice Caesar was paralyzed in an accident in Germany in 1999. When the doctors said they didn’t think she would walk again, she started planning a marathon. And she made it happen.

Josh Marino, an Army Veteran, is an education and outreach coordinator and a Veteran peer mentor at the Human Engineering Research Laboratories (HERL), a joint project between the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System and the University of Pittsburgh.

From not being able to walk or talk, Army Veteran Cathy Davis now makes presentations at polytrauma conferences. A large team of VA doctors and specialists and her resolve made it happen.

It was an interaction with a patient that gave VA [...]