background: patients with spinal cord injury (sci) have a lower health related quality of life (hrqol) compared to both healthy controls and the normal population. the aim of this study was to compare hrqol between two groups of veteran and non-veteran sci patients. methods : all male paraplegic non-veterans who had sustained complete sci before 1988 and were residents of tehran province (iran)...

In a recent study on Gulf War veterans who developed delayed neurotoxicity symptoms, we found their levels of serum paraoxonase (PON1) isozyme type Q to be significantly lower than in the control, unaffected veteran group. These results were obtained 25 ill and 20 well control subjects, which 10 deployed nondeployed battalion members remained United States during War. The blood samples also ass...

[Purpose] Competitive sport places strict demands on the cardiovascular systems of veteran trail runners. Our research objective was to evaluate the dynamics of microcirculation parameters of veteran runners in hypoxic and mid-altitude conditions. [Subjects and Methods] Seven male runners from Russia and Italy between the ages of 50 and 60 years were examined whilst competing at mid-altitude (1...

This paper emphasizes how in the process of interviewing patients, questions related to their veteran status need to be assimilated into our assessment process. Failure to determine that they are veterans may allow important issues and problems related to their health status to go undetected. Adding questions to our repertoire and knowing how to access a few key resources may assist patients in...

At the heart of this magnificent transformation have been structural and organizational changes of a magnitude unprecedented in the long history of veterans’ health care. When we created 22 (now 21) Veterans Integrated Service Networks in 1995, we changed the way we allocated resources from individual facilities to geographic networks. This, in turn, enabled us to shift the emphasis in our care...

Student veteran’s (SV) transition into academic life is challenging, and faculty/staff are uniquely positioned to support this change. Research calls for training SVs’ aid in their retention success. Framed by Rhetorical Relational Goal Theory (RRGT; Mottet et al., 2006), qualitative data identified instructional communication needs produced a program. Twenty-three SVs were interviewed about ne...