Therapists Help Hurt Troops Learn Skills
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Lt. Robert Tracy sat patiently as an occupational therapist massaged the right arm that hasn't been the same since he fell through a floor during a house raid in Iraq.
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The Army will begin teaching combat lifesaving instruction during basic training to enable soldiers to give critical medical care to wounded comrades on the battlefield.
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A 'breakdown in discipline' among reservists in Iraq raises troubling questions
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The veterans administration teams up with medicine men to use sweat lodges and talking circles to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Bonus book excerpt: The caregivers who work with combat amputees face their own emotional challenges--and rise to the occasion
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Part-time soldiers play an "integral part" in Britain's defence and need better training and support, MPs say.
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The Army plans to begin a program today to educate every soldier about traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. The rare effort to break the perceived  stigma within the military about mental health problems comes as increasingly more troops return from battle with serious but u...
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Scientists hope a high-tech virtual experience that mimics the battlegrounds of Iraq can be used to help veterans recover from the trauma of war.
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On Scene: A soldier learns to fiddle, while NATO tries to douse Afghanistan's fires
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An expert panel said Thursday that it was unclear which treatments could help combat veterans who are suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
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'We're sorry for anyone who's suffered personal trauma,' says the armed forces' joint equality and diversity training centre.
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Soldier's tumble experience at a base reflects the biggest challenges and stresses confronting the Guard and Reserve soldiers.
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A new report finds that soldiers who suffered concussions in the war were at higher risk for post-traumatic stress disorder than those with other injuries.
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The toll on U.S. troops of war in Iraq  and Afghanistan may be obscured by dramatic advances in  battlefield medicine that allow more soldiers to survive combat  injuries than ever before, according to a report in The New  England Journal of Medicine.
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Veterans of earlier fires are sharing practical lessons on recovery and rebuilding.
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I want to thank Lynne Joiner [letters, Nov. 29] for taking the time to help wounded soldiers. My brother fought for a year in Iraq with the 101st Airborne, and my cousin, a Navy pilot, flew in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
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There isn't enough evidence to tell if most treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder work, says a scientific review that highlights the urgency of finding answers as thousands of suffering veterans return from Iraq.