Georgina van Aarde Biokineticist

Georgina van Aarde Biokineticist Orthopaedic injury and Chronic disease rehabilitation through exercise prescription. Movement is an essential part of everyday life, for people of all ages.

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Share Page 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. A Biokineticist is a clinical exercise specialist who:
Functions within professional alliance to health and medicine, and is recognised by and registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa. 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 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 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;

they prepare our children for the competitive marketplace by assuring their physical fitness and preparedness for learning and achievement;

they maximize employment productivity and benefit economic stability; and they promote quality of life and individual independence, rather than more costly institutionalized and supported care.

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For this week we look at: The Myth about Pain!That Pain = Tissue damageUnfortionalty this is something many people stil...
20/02/2022

For this week we look at:
The Myth about Pain!
That Pain = Tissue damage

Unfortionalty this is something many people still believe. Luckily there has been a lot of research done to prove this is not the case. Pain is a protective mechanism (output) from the brain. It is like a smoke detecter going off from either a fire (tissue damage) or smoke (no tissue damge). However the sound it makes (intensity of pain) is the same for both!

Please watch this video for a good explanation on The Brain and Pain from Julia Gover a chiropractor with a special interest in pain.

We were built to move!!! Our bodies are fundamentally strong and remarkably equiped to heal itself. Being told to stop moving because of pain is inaccurate and untrue for the majority of people living with chronic pain ! It promotes fear of your own body and in turn will only increase your experience of pain and cause more fear and the vicious cycle will only continue. This causes unnecessary suffering and disability.

NOTE FROM TED: While some viewers might find advice provided in this talk to be helpful, please consult a licensed medical professional for pain management. ...

For 2022 I am excited to announce that I have been accepted and started a Postgraduate Diplima in Interdisciplinary Pain...
12/02/2022

For 2022 I am excited to announce that I have been accepted and started a Postgraduate Diplima in Interdisciplinary Pain management through the Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at UCT.

Completion will enable me to provide my patients with quality, patient-centerd services at all levels of the health care system to contribute towards optimising health in the broadest sense of the word.

This marks the start of a interdisciplinary, patient-centred practice with a special interest chronic pain.

Watch this very entrtaining video by Prof Lorimer Moseley for a explanation on "Why things hurt"

More "Pain" info to follow!

Why do we hurt?Do we actually experience pain, or is it merely illusion?In this video, Lorimer Moseley explores these questions, and position the pain that w...

06/02/2022

Highly active elderly people can boost their immune systems to protect against infection, according to research.

03/01/2022

University of Queensland researchers have discovered an exercise ‘sweet spot’ that reverses the cognitive decline in ageing mice, paving the way for human studies.

24/12/2021

The holidays can be a difficult time for many. Remember that physical activity can help to alleviate symptoms of depression and anxiety.

Learn more and get started: http://ow.ly/FwwR50HiqT6

In times of crisis, we encourage you to reach out to a mental health care provider.

16/12/2021

People who exercise regularly can reduce their risk of developing and dying from pneumonia, new research has found.

Guess what, exercise matters!
30/11/2021

Guess what, exercise matters!

Research has shown that exercise can have a positive impact on gut health. So, what is "gut health", why does it matter and how can exercise help?

24/11/2021

More than 20 million antidepressants were prescribed between October and December 2020 - a 6% increase compared with the same three months in 2019.

18/11/2021

Hawks spokesperson Col Katlego Mogale said Johannes Christiaan van Belkum, 53, was sentenced in the Klerksdorp regional court on Wednesday to 12 month’s imprisonment for fraud and contravening the Health Professions Act.

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