FAYETTEVILLE (WTVD) — Friday, wounded warrior William Stewart received a new souped-up wheelchair. It has tracked wheels, and can plow through soft soil, and sand. Willie, as he is known…
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Promising treatment for ABI/Stroke
After three decades of failure, researchers have found a treatment that greatly improves the prognosis for people having the most severe and disabling strokes. By directly removing large blood lots…
Disabled Iraq Vet gives back via Challenge
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War’s elite tough guys, hesitant to seek healing
After his fourth combat tour, to Afghanistan in 2011, Sgt. First Class Michael B. Lube, a proud member of the Army Special Forces, came home alienated and angry. Once a…
A miraculous and arduous recovery for police officer
Peter Laboy perched on a step stool in the Alexandria Police Department, the simple task of inventorying uniform shirts vexing him. He stared for a while at a row of…
NCC client speaks to VA employees regarding WWP
The Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service offered a special event here on April 9, 2014. Jeremy Muncert, an Army Veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, spoke to a crowd of about…
Brain-Injured Vets search for solace
GERMANTOWN, Md.—Pete Bunce walked into a room at a U.S. military hospital in Germany in March 2004, and stared hard at the unconscious young Marine on the bed. His head,…
Learning life again with the help of WWP and NCC
Army Sgt. Jeremy Muncert made it back from Iraq, haunted by what he had seen and endured but otherwise uninjured. But a car crash back home left him with one…
Studies disagree on helmet safety
Here’s a novel idea, given that American parents send almost 4 million of their children out to play tackle football every year, despite mounting concerns about youth concussions: Maybe the…
WWP to expand Independent Living program
Helping wounded vets move from ‘surviving’ to ‘thriving’ WASHINGTON — Back when Michael Baker was a nuclear submarine technician in the Navy, he was a triathlete who spent as much…