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A workplace injury can change your life in an instant. If you have been hurt at work in Cape Town or the surrounding areas, Le Roux and Lemmer help you understand your rights and get the right orthotic or prosthetic device to get back on your feet. This guide answers the questions injured workers ask most. What is an Injury on Duty (IOD)? An Injury on Duty is any injury or illness that arises out of and in the course of your employment. This includes accidents at the workplac

She had folded a scarf into her bra for eight months. Not because she did not know better. Because nobody had told her there was anything else. She had been told, in detail, what was going to be removed. Almost nothing about what came afterwards. I hear a version of this often. So let me say the part that gets left out. The bra does half the work A prosthesis on its own does very little. It needs something to hold it in the right place, against your chest wall, so that it sta

This May, we packed our bags and travelled to Leipzig, Germany, for OT World, the largest international trade fair and congress for prosthetics and orthotics. Held every two years, it brings together more than 570 exhibitors from over 40 countries, alongside hundreds of clinicians, researchers and innovators. This year marked its 50th anniversary, under a motto that stayed with us long after we left: "You make the difference." We did not go simply to look. We went because the