In the days before Political Correctness blighted even our health and rehabilitation services,
target shooting was considered an optimal rehabilitative therapy for Brain Injury patients ( Trauma, Strokes and Birth Defects, such as cerebral palsy).

When I was just a teenage shooter, I remember a man in his sixties, who was badly handicapped by Polio as a child (in the 1930s), who regularly came shooting at our club range with Handloads (cast lead) which he made himself. He had an assistant,(friend) who got him out of the car and onto the mat,, but he did the rest himself. and he regularly shot almost perfect scores, with centre fire and rimfire. That was in the late 1960s, early 70s.
I also saw regularly people who had had strokes, with losses in one or other sides of the body, getting on with shooting on a bench, using their "good side" and "strong eye". Their progress towards recovery was hastened by this Muscle and reflex and brain activity. Physical Trauma patients ( amputees, etc) also benefit from shooting rehab. activities.

At our Military Rifle club we have one member who has Spina Bifida, I think, and he is wheelchair-bound. He has an old Military Theodolite Tripod adapted to take a rifle (Mauser or SMLE), and he regularly shoots "Modified" competition. He occasionally gets down on the ground and shoots Prone as well, but then he sometimes needs a hand to get back on his "wheels".

It used to be that the VA had access to Target ranges back during and after WW II, for such therapy...it seems that with the decline of services, notorious during Vietnam and later, that all these helpful activities were "canned" by the bean counters and Bureaucrats, as either "Not PC" or because they were just anti-Gun.

That's why a lot of US Gun magazines advertize to "send the soldiers copies of "G&A, G, AR, etc" when the reader has finished with them." And the appreciation shown by many in Harm's way, for these "news from home" even in these days of instant Email and phone calls...the written word and the Picture can be re-read a thousand times.(this applies to other "Hobby" magazines as well...such as Model Railroader, Woodsmith, Popular Mechanics, etc,etc.

I have a friend ( College, Army, etc) who served in Nam, came back with PTSD, and handled it by going back to University, joining our own NRAA, to do Long Range Target shooting ( a la Bisley and Palma style), and work for the Port Authority in Safety management.; and now in retirement, continues to teach Rifle Shooting to young fellas, including Gulf War/Timor/Somalia/Afghan vets here in Australia. Precision shooting was his salvation. I have seen many Vietnam vets of my own generation ( and High school years) end their lives prematurely by Drink, Drugs and just plain Despair at what they went through, coupled with the treatment they got from the protesters when they came home.

Hope that all you shooters in the US take a Vet under your wing, and teach them to shoot correctly and well, and help them re-enter society after the Maelstrom of Iraq and Ghanistan.
People with friends rarely go off the rails.

Regards,
Doc AV
AV Ballistics.