Courtesy Story Blanchfield Army Community Hospital Simply getting out of bed, sitting behind a desk, or driving an automobile may be a challenge for many pain-free. Occupational therapy is one form of treatment that may potentially help. Occupational therapists focus on improving the patient’s ability to perform daily activities. They are trained in improving weakened […]
Story by Lori Newman Brooke Army Medical Center Public Affairs JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas, April 22, 2024 – According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year in the United States, more than 46,700 new cases of cancer are found in parts of the body where human papillomavirus is often […]
Story by Jean Graves Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital FORT JOHNSON, La. — Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital will begin offering a new type of physical therapy to Soldiers and their Families beginning May 1, at the Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Johnson, Louisiana. Capt. Shelby Landrum joined the BJACH rehabilitation department recently and she will […]
Story by Russell Tafuri Blanchfield Army Community Hospital The Woodson Health Clinic’s new Physical Therapy Clinic officially opened its doors with a ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday, April 24. Blanchfield Army Community Hospital Health System Commander, Col. Samuel L. Preston, highlights the significance of the ceremony, “This ribbon cutting today is a symbol of our ongoing […]
Story by Otis Toussaint U.S. Army Medical Command DENVER (April 24, 2024)—In a presentation at the Quad A conference in Denver, Colorado, Lt. Gen. Mary K. Izaguirre, the Surgeon General of the U.S. Army and Commander of the U.S. Army Medical Command (MEDCOM), delivered an address outlining the critical partnership between Army Medicine and Army […]
Story by Otis Toussaint U.S. Army Medical Command DENVER (April 24, 2024)—In a presentation at the Quad A conference in Denver, Colorado, Lt. Gen. Mary K. Izaguirre, the Surgeon General of the U.S. Army and Commander of the U.S. Army Medical Command (MEDCOM), delivered an address outlining the critical partnership between Army Medicine and Army […]
Story by Kirk Frady Medical Readiness Command, Europe SEMBACH, GERMANY – Growing up in a small rural town in southern Romania near the Carpathian Mountains, Staff Sgt. Luiza Pozniak had always dreamed of living and working in the United States. Her love for the U.S. first began in 2007 when she arrived in Wildwood, New […]
Story by MaryTherese Griffin Army Recovery Care Program FALLS CHURCH Va., – Army Spc. Joaquin Pina, a water treatment specialist at Ft Drum, New York, has quite the story to share. It was a typical fall day in upstate New York, and typical Army training was in full swing until a very atypical thing happened […]
Story by Erin Perez U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, TEXAS—U.S. News and World Report ranks several programs at the Fort Sam Houston-based U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence highly in their most recent report on the best graduate health schools. Within the MEDCoE Graduate School, there are 14 […]
Story by Walter Ham 20th CBRNE Command ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. – A seasoned Medical Service Corps colonel retired from the U.S. Army after more than three decades of serving around the world. Col. Matthew J. Grieser retired during a widely attended ceremony, April 11, at the 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command […]