What Is Biokinetics?
Bio + Kinetics = Life + Movement
Biokineticists clinically assess and identify the cause of pain, and rectify it with individualized exercises and mobility. Biokinetics’ main focus is to improve physical functioning and health care through exercise as a modality.
Mark Digby, a Johannesburg-based Biokineticist, says, “Biokinetics is a crucial health profession, as we understand movement – finding the cause of pain, and therefore preventing any further reinjury in the future. We can also predict potential injuries, being proactive in the example of collapsed arches during running, preventing medial tibial stress syndrome and fractures.
“Treating symptoms is great, but finding the cause of why the injury happened and preventing it again in the future is key to any injury.”
Biokineticists are clinical exercise specialists who:
- Are Health Professionals Council of South Africa-registered practitioners and are an important component of the modern multidisciplinary medical team.
- Are concerned with preventative healthcare, the maintenance of physical abilities and final phase rehabilitation.
- Improve a person’s physical well-being and quality of life through individualised scientific assessment and the prescription of exercise in rehabilitative treatment to prevent or intervene with certain ailments and the enhancement of performance.
- Evaluate and measure: body posture, body composition, blood pressure, glucose levels, lung function, heart rate, fitness, muscle strength, endurance, power, flexibility and other health screenings.
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