london biokinetics
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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.
