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Prosthetic & Sensory Aids for Women Veterans: VA Briefing August 2011

Category: Prosthetics & Sensory Aids

This Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Research & Development Prosthetic & Sensory Aid Services (PSAS) briefing provides an overview of the VA PSAS program to include women veteran needs, various devices and aids, barriers to care, adaptive sports and contacts. The numbers of women veterans served and programs costs from 2006-2010 were included.  It highlighted the establishment of the women veterans' Prosthesis Working Group (PWW), an interdisciplinary collaboration of subject matter experts on women's health from across VA, in 2008.

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