19/09/2022
Movement is an essential part of everyday life, for people of all ages. Movement affects development, learning, communicating, work capacity, health, and general quality of life. Movement in turn, 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.
The profession of Biokinetics has evolved as a health profession responding to the universal need for quality, accessible, cost-effective health care. .
