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The head of the Unbroken Foundation described scaling a rehabilitation ecosystem from almost nothing — a single prosthetics workstation in a container — into a multi-building operation, driven by the principle that speed is essential and that waiting for state resources, stretched by the front line, is not an option.
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A recurring, evidence-backed theme was that body and mind cannot be separated: combining mental and physical rehabilitation was reported to speed physical recovery substantially, because motivated, less-depressed patients engage more actively in their own recovery.
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Peer mentorship emerged as central — veterans who completed their own recovery guide newly wounded arrivals through both therapy and bureaucracy, and shared activity in sport, art and group events pulls individuals out of isolation and helps manage even phantom-limb pain.
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The founder of a UK wounded-veterans charity delivered a pointed warning drawn from Britain's experience: do not shut specialist rehabilitation centres after the war, because the National Health Service could not absorb the lost expertise — and she flagged how dangerously under-recognized chronic pain and dependence on pain medication remain.
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Panellists stressed that Ukraine has shifted from receiving foreign medical expertise to exporting it, with international doctors now coming to learn from Ukrainian battlefield and rehabilitation experience, while cautioning that rehabilitation must reach small communities, not only big cities, and that public education is needed to end the Soviet-era instinct to hide the wounded from view.
