Occupational Therapy Australia survey finds two in five Australians had to pause work, education, hobbies due to injury or illness

A friend’s wedding nine years ago was the last time Leonie Dean used her legs to dance.

The next day, when she was at a shopping centre picking up cat litter, her legs buckled beneath her and she fell. It was like they “just stopped working”.

Now a paraplegic, Ms Dean, 40, today knows she lives…