Erika van der Mescht

Erika van der Mescht
Erika van der Mescht has dedicated her physiotherapy career to helping patients with lymphoedema and secondary-to-cancer physiotherapy needs and runs her Lymph Therapy practice in Centurion. She has been working in Cancer rehabilitation and lymphoedema clinics since 2012 and has passionately developed her skills and expertise in this field. Erika started training with LEA (Lymph Education Africa) in 2016 but has since moved to a new training school called LTA (Lymphedema Training Academy). This is the school that started FG–MLD and lymphatic mapping in 2014, initially in the UK. Erika now does training for them in South Africa, having just registered LTA: Africa together with Jane Wigg, the founder of LTA Global. She started seeing patients requiring lymphoedema management, as a niche market. Because non-treatment of a client’s symptoms could cause major challenges, it was inevitable to start doing cancer rehabilitation as part of therapy.