What is a Biokineticist?
We are healthcare providers that specialise in human movement and exercise.
We prescribe physical activity to promote health and quality of life, rehabilitate injuries, aid in managing certain chronic illnesses or conditions and assist in improving the different components of fitness and sports performance.
Life Through Movement
Biokinetics
comes from a combination of the words
'bio' meaning life and 'kinetics' translated to movement.
As a profession we are focused on health promotion, maintenance and improvement of physical abilities and involved with physical rehabilitation. We do so by relying on scientifically-based, physical activity program prescription.
An official announcement of the registration of the profession of Biokinetics as a health discipline within the South African Government Gazette on the 9th of September 1983, acknowledged as a profession on the professional board of medical sciences of the South African Medical and Dental Council (SAMDC), which was later renamed the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA).
We assist with
Sports & Orthopedic Injuries
include conditions such as back and neck problems, spinal cord injuries, amputees, scoliosis, kyphosis, rotator cuff tears and should impingement syndrome, SIJ dysfunction, ITB syndrome, trochanteric bursitis, hip instability and gluteus medius weakness, patellofemoral disorders and knee problems, Achilles tendonitis, plantar fasciitis, muscle strains and tears, muscle strengthening for imbalances that cause overuse injuries just to name a few.
Chronic Conditions
include hypertension, high cholesterol, coronary heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, hypermobility, low muscle tone and many more conditions that require specialised attention
Health Promotion &
Improvement of Fitness
pregnancy, 6+ week post natal exercise routines, senior citizens, healthy individuals that would like a change in their exercise routine to improve fitness and performance in their sport, healthy individuals that would like to focus on specific areas of fitness such as flexibility, posture, core stability and pelvic control, muscular strength and balance
