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  • Why Wales is leading the way?

    A technician is working in a prosthetics workshop, meticulously shaping or adjusting a prosthetic limb. The workspace is filled with specialized tools, machines, and containers for materials like plaster or gypsum, evident from the white dust covering the surfaces.
    17 August 2024

    Collaboration between the Welsh Government, Welsh Health, Limb Centre leads, and Blesma is yielding significant benefits in offering improved services to injured military personnel. Health services around the UK are strained, but the provision of prosthetics across Wales highlights how collaboration and cohesion can create high-quality services. In Wales, prosthetics services operate from three Limb Centres: Cardiff, Swanse

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  • “I’m looking at what’s going on under the surface”

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    11 August 2024

    Caitlin McNeice is a remedial, sports and scar massage therapist with a masters in amputation rehabilitation. She explains the latest thinking behind the relatively new field of scar tissue massage There can’t be many people in the UK who know more about veterans’ rehabilitation than Caitlin McNeice. Not only is she a qualified remedial, sports and scar massage therapist with a masters degree in amputation rehabilitation, but her partner of nearly 10 years, Scott McNeice, is a military amputee and Blesma Member.

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  • Nottingham Branch Fundraising Raffle – Win a Golf Getaway!

    Blesma Member playing golf
    5 August 2024

    We’re excited to launch a special raffle to support the Nottingham Branch, and it’s open to all members, friends, staff, and sponsors! You can win: - Golfing Break for 4: Enjoy a golf getaway at Belton Woods on any course Monday through Thursday (valid until 30/12/24). - 2 x Double/Twin Rooms and Breakfast: Stay at Belton Woods Hotel & Spa Golf Resort (valid until 25/06/25).  

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  • NOTHING VENTURED NOTHING GAINED

    Scott McNeise is snowboarding down the hill
    10 July 2024

    Scott McNeice had never stood on a snowboard unti

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