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High-tech military rehab center opening

Physical therapist Justin Laferrier demonstrates how Flowrider therapy will be used at the Center for the Intrepid, the new $50 million physical rehabilitation facility at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio on Sunday. The facility, for wounded military and veterans, and two new Fisher Houses, will be dedicated today. (AP Photo)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A $50 million high-tech rehabilitation center designed to serve the growing number of soldiers who return from war as amputees or with severe burns will open here Monday.

The 60,000-square-foot Center for the Intrepid will allow the Army to move its rehabilitation program out of the Brooke Army Medical Center and into a separate facility that includes a rock-climbing wall, wave pool and a 360-degree virtual reality sphere to help amputees and other severely wounded soldiers recover their balance and other basic skills.

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