Welcome to the Wounded Warrior Resource Center Web site
The Wounded Warrior Resource Center Web site (WWRC) is a Department of Defense Web site which provides wounded Service Members, their families, and caregivers with information they need on military facilities, health care services, and benefits. It supports access to the Wounded Warrior Resource Call Center and trained specialists who are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by phone at 1-800-342-9647 or by e-mail at wwrc@militaryonesource.com.
Polytrauma/Multiple Injuries
Information is in alphabetical order
- Blast Injuries - Fact Sheets Offers fact sheets for health care providers that provide detailed information on the treatment of blast injuries.
- Blast Injury FAQs The Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center provides answers to frequently asked questions regarding blast-related injuries.
- Combat-Related Injury & Rehabilitation Pay (CIP) CIP is special pay for soldiers during a portion of their rehabilitation time from wounds, injuries and illnesses incurred in a combat operation or combat zone.
- Explosion & Blast Injuries Information Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides information about explosion and blast injuries. Includes a chart identifying the multiple body parts affected by the various types of injuries.
- National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH) NRH is one of the top rehabilitation hospitals in America and specializes in brain injury, spinal cord injury, stroke, multiple trauma and other neurological and orthopedic conditions. Click here for NRH locations.
- Polytrauma - The Nervous System & Physiological Systems Provides a video and written information on the increasing numbers of civilians and military personnel suffering polytrauma from explosive blasts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- VA Polytrauma System of Care Provides comprehensive inter-disciplinary care at Polytrauma Rehabilitation Centers and Polytrauma Network Sites for veterans and returning service members with injuries to more than one physical region or organ system. Each site treats Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), hearing loss, amputations, fractures, burns and visual impairments. Check out the locations of all sites.
- VA Polytrauma System of Care - Frequently Asked Questions Provides answers to frequently asked questions about the VA polytrauma system of care.
- VA Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) - Polytrauma & Blast-Related Injuries Promotes the successful rehabilitation, psychological adjustment and community reintegration of individuals who have experienced polytrauma and blast-related injuries.
WWRC Call Center 1-800-342-9647
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If you would like to speak to a trained specialist at the Wounded Warrior Resource Call Center email wwrc@militaryonesource.com
