What is Biokinetics

The Biokinetics Association of South Africa (BASA) defines Biokinetics as “the science of movement and the application of exercise in rehabilitative treatment or performance.”

BIO + KINETICS = LIFE + MOVEMENT = LIFE THROUGH MOVEMENT

The Science of Movement and the application of exercise in rehabilitative treatment of performance.

Biokinetics’ primary function is to improve physical functioning and health care through exercise as a modality.

Biokinetics is the profession concerned with health promotion, the maintenance of physical abilities and final phase rehabilitation, by means of scientifically-based physical activity programme prescription.

Who’s a Biokineticist

A Biokineticist is a clinical exercise specialist who:

• Functions within professional alliance to health and medicine. 

• Improves 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 (sport and work).

• Evaluates & Measures: body posture, body composition, blood pressure, glucose levels, lung function, heart rate, fitness, muscle strength, endurance, power, flexibility and other health screenings.

• Is a health professional who through health promotion and wellness create a better quality of life for people they work with.

Movement is an essential part of everyday life, for people of all ages. Movement affects development, learning, communicating, work capacity, health, and quality of life. Movement permits people to navigate and stay oriented within their environment. It allows people to interact more fully in their work and recreation. It is a defining element of quality of life.

Movement may be diminished or lost due to heredity, ageing, injury, or disease. Such loss may occur gradually, over the course of a lifetime, or traumatically in an instant.

Conditions of movement loss that are linked with chronic and disabling diseases pose additional challenges for patients and their families. From the public health perspective, the prevention of either the initial impairment, or additional impairment from this environmentally orienting and socially connecting functioning, requires significant resources.

Prevention of movement loss or the resulting disabling conditions, through the development of improved disease prevention, detection, or treatment methods or more effective rehabilitative strategies, must be a global priority.

The profession of Biokinetics has evolved as a primary care health profession responding to the universal need for quality, accessible, cost-effective health care.

Biokineticists are widely distributed in communities around the world. They provide economic value for the services they offer, they detect a wide spectrum of conditions at a savings to the health care system, they provide entry into the health care system for many patients who would otherwise not seek care, and they promote quality of life and individual independence, rather than more costly institutionalized and supported care.

The 4 main areas a Biokineticist are qualified to deal with are:

About Henry

Henry has a passion to help people achieve their health, wellness, rehabilitation and fitness goals by implementing a bespoke holistic approach to every client. He is an evidence based clinical sport and exercise specialist with the view exercise and effective movement is medicine and can be used to treat or prevent more than 35 different conditions and improving many others.

Henry started his education in South Africa with degrees in physiology and human Movement Science before starting his postgraduate degree in Biokinetics. In the 25 years after obtaining his postgraduate degree in Biokinetics in South Africa he successfully set up a practice in the U.K. Henry is the only non physiotherapist who is a official trusted Rehabilitation partner for the prestigious London Sports Orthopaedic practice. Henry is one of a handful of Biokineticist in the U.K. and the longest to practice Biokinetics in the U.K. with decades experience in treating individuals with varied needs ranging from weight loss, orthopaedic rehabilitation, management of chronic disease  intense chronic pain, general heath and wellness to golf specific conditions of players of all abilities.

With his experience and education back ground he has developed a training philosophy called Movement Re Education (MRE).  The philosophy is based on the latest scientific evidence that ensures maximum results for all his clients. MRE looks to increase the efficiency of functional moment to maximise the effects of training and also to assure everyday movements and interactions with our environment can be done confidently and without developing pain.  

Henry’s passion for movement and performance improvement comes form a sports background from young. He has always played a verity of sport, up to present day he still plays league cricket and have played cricket at a very high level when he was younger. His interest in rehabilitation springs from an injury to his ankle while playing rugby and being treated by a biokineticist. He was lucky enough to realise his ambitions some years later when he completed his degree in Biokinetics.