Story by D.P. Taylor | Army Recovery Care Program | 03.23.2022
Retired Staff Sgt. Jacob Templeton, who suffered an injury in Afghanistan in 2019 and left the Fort Bragg SRU in October 2021, said it was difficult coming to an SRU to begin the recovery process after being injured. But a dinner group that occupational therapist Joy Davis created in 2018 began to change things for him....
Courtesy Story | Army Recovery Care Program | 02.17.2022
Staff at the Fort Bragg Soldier Recovery Unit (SRU) in North Carolina are enhancing recovering Soldiers’ physical, mental, social and emotional well-being through an adaptive golf program....
Story by D.P. Taylor | Army Recovery Care Program | 02.15.2022
There's just something about putting a seed into the ground and watching it grow. It has a way of connecting you with the Earth in a deep sense, and Soldiers at the Fort Bragg Soldier Recovery Unit (SRU) in North Carolina have found it to be a unique and useful form of therapy....
Story by Julia Oliveri | Army Recovery Care Program | 12.09.2021
It has been nearly two years since COVID-19 introduced a “new normal” to the world. The pandemic forced everyone to endure some of the challenges that recovering Soldiers have always had to deal with — and one adaptive sports coach believes the pandemic has shown to the world just how resilient wounded, ill and injured Soldiers are....
Story by Christine Aurigema | Army Recovery Care Program | 08.26.2021
The Fort Bragg Soldier Recovery Unit in North Carolina asks assigned Soldiers about their leisure activity interests periodically. Recreation Therapist Lee Whitford said that one response seems to surface every single summer: surfing....
Story by Christine Aurigema | Army Recovery Care Program | 06.03.2021
The Fort Bragg Soldier Recovery Unit’s Music Wellness class had modest beginnings as guitar lessons for recovering Soldiers. But it didn’t stay small for long. It grew into a full-fledged class complete with vocals, electric guitars, keyboards, basses and cajons. Each session culminates in a performance by the participating Soldiers and the 82nd Airborne Division Band and Chorus....
Story by Christine Aurigema | Army Recovery Care Program | 05.18.2021
The strength training class at the Fort Bragg Soldier Recovery Unit in North Carolina was meant to provide recovering Soldiers with fitness instruction, but it may also be boosting their spirits....
Story by Christine Aurigema | Army Recovery Care Program | 01.27.2021
Soldiers assigned to the Fort Bragg Soldier Recovery Unit in North Carolina now have a new adaptive reconditioning option to choose from: a yoga class, which kicked off this past fall and offers a number of benefits....
