Posttraumatic stress reactions have become a part of the every day life in Bosnia and Herzegovina, even at the time of war activities, and especially after the cessation of life threats as the conflicts stopped. A particular problem is caused by low level of care from the side of society, its engagement in decreasing of PTSD prevalence rate in our country. Being a part of population certainly exposed to series of traumatic experiences which directly resulted in their permanent disabilities, it is interesting to study degree of disorder and signs of disorder of PTSD among the war disabled persons. Based on our experience from every day practice in the Mental health center showing the better results in processing of traumatic experience with those war disabled persons actively involved in sport activities organized within some war disabled associations, the concept of our research were designed to get better insight into the results in processing of traumatic experiences of war disabled as a direct impact of their active involvement in sport activities. Taking into account the outcomes of numerous researched conducted on the war veterans from the Vietnam war which showed that 15, 2% war veterans has had continuously for 20 years after the war finished some symptoms of PTSD (Kulka et al., 1990), we take a freedom in claiming that that problem is still current eight years after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina ended.
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