|
REGULAR MEMBERSHIP:
When you join PVA, you’ll join thousands of other veterans with a spinal cord dysfunction who share a commitment to live a productive life.
By joining –
You’ll be involved through our local chapter:
• in sporting events
• recreational activities for you and your family
You’ll be kept informed:
• about the most recent legislative reforms that affect you
• medical research
• the latest products to make your life easier
Providing information -
PVA members receive, free of charge, our monthly magazine PN/Paraplegia News. PN covers all aspects of life with a spinal cord injury or disease – exercise, travel, products and services, accessible housing designs, research and medical advances, and sports and recreation as well as PVA news.
In addition, PVA publishes eight issues each year of Sports’n Spokes, a magazine devoted to wheelchair sports and recreation. For subscription information, contact Sports 'N Spokes.
PVA also published and distributes, often free of charge to our members, books, manuals, and pamphlets on issues such as wheelchair living, rehabilitation, medical care and accessibility.
Safeguarding your benefits –
We are committed to helping you receive all the benefits to which you are entitled. With service offices in VA facilities nationwide, PVA stands ready to answer your questions – and those of your family – as well as help you prepare your claims.
Our highly trained service officers can advise you on all federal and state programs, including: claims, compensation, aide and attendance, housebound benefits, nonservice-connected pension, educational benefits, government insurance, and home loans.We can also assist with questions regarding fee-basis care, nursing home care, home health care, VA outpatient care, and hospital care.
You are eligible –
* If you suffered a spinal cord injury as a result of trauma or disease and served in the Armed Forces.
* You were discharged under other than dishonorable conditions.
* The injury or disease onset could have occurred after your discharge/retirement from the Armed Forces.
The listing that follows is illustrative of injury and disease of the spinal cord and cauda equina but is not all-inclusive.
Organic Spinal Cord and Cauda Equina Lesions Through:
Injury – trauma with or without neuro deficits complete or incomplete
Diseases with or without residual neurological deficit:
Infection: Viral (e.g., poliomyelitis)
Bacterial (e.g., tuberculosis)
Parasitic (e.g., schistosomiasis)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Inflammation: (e.g., myelitis)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Degenerative: (e.g., multiple sclerosis (MS);
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS))
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tumors: Benign (e.g., ependymoma)
Malignant (e.g., sarcoma)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cysts: (e.g., syrinx)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Vascular: Arteriosclerosis
Inflammatory (e.g., vasculitis)
Traumatic
Congenital (e.g., a.v. malformation)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Autoimmune: (e.g., lupus)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Congenital: (e.g., spina bifida)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Constructive: Pressure on cord (e.g., spinal stenosis)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
A veteran with any of the following pathological entities, without involvement of spinal cord or cauda equina, is not eligible for membership.
CVA (stroke), osteoarthritis, peripheral neuropathy, toxic neuropathy, (neuritis), amputation
If you are eligible and would like to join PVA, please fill out and mail the Membership Application Profile. The information you provide will be held in the strictest of confidence. Click here to complete an online application - or download a two-page PDF printable PDF application to print and mail. Enter "Wisconsin PVA" in the space after "Chapter Name:".
ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP:
WPVA has several members and friends volunteering their time and efforts to accomplish this mission. We encourage Associate Membership to those individuals interested in aiding our cause. Associate membership has the same rights and privileges as regular membership, except they do not have voting rights. Eligiblity of Associate Membership involves an interest in our goals and objectives, support of our organization, and a commitment to following policies and procedures when representing the chapter. The WPVA Board of Directors [BOD] makes all decisions on Associate Membership status.
There is no cost for Associate Membership in WPVA, but donations are gratefully accepted and are 100% tax deductible. Click here to complete the online application - or download a PDF printable application to print and mail.
|
 |
