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ABOUT
I work in a Multi Disciplinary Centre - @340onMain Road. I am a registered Biokineticists with the Biokinetics Association of South Africa (BASA) as well as a member of the South African Sports Medicine Association (SASMA) and the Health Professions Council Southern Africa (HPCSA). I aim to help people get back from injuries and return to their daily activities that they are involved in. I have worked with many sports elite athletes as well as the average Joe or Jane and treat each person the same. My passion is knee injuries as well as posture correction, and back conditions, and in saying that i treat all orthopaedic injuries.
I am passionate about sports and participate in golf, running, cycling, swimming as well as I love to keep in tip top shape and ready for anything. I am a family man and to have had injuries, allowing me the opportunity to identify to my patients in the emotional journey required during the rehabilitation process returning to sports and activities of daily living. I pride myself in being ethical and reliable with all my patients and to provide the best clinical treatment for them as well as educating them on there condition during the process of the rehabilitation program.
Recently Qualified as a certified VDOT Running Coach - follow the @RRproject2020 on instagram for posts and information about running . If you need Coaching feel free to email me or what's app.
SERVICES
Assessments
First consultation analysing posture, movement patterns, functional movement, mobility, flexibility and strenght
Orthopeadic Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation of injuries involving the muscles and bones of the human body
Chronic Rehabilitation
The process of helping a person who has suffered an illness or injury restore lost skills and so regain maximum self-sufficiency.
Sports Specific Rehabilitation
We can assist in recovery after surgery and final phase return to sport as well as if you are struggling with a niggle that is restricting you from playing
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LATEST NEWS...
Diversity among our disciplines: let’s provide differing perspectives in the interest of athlete care
January 01, 2020
For many past decades, South Africa’s legislated discriminatory policies had hand- icapped the country and prevented it from benefiting from the diverse talents of all of its people. The presence of an assorted cohort of 2019 World Cup players provided perspective on the supposed ‘hardships’ of professionalsport,whencomparedwiththe adversity endured for a lifetime by players such as Springbok captain Siya Kolisi. This proved unifying in the players’ motivation to unite the population across South Africa’s demographic.
May 04, 2020
Worldwide, athletes have lost valuable training time to the COVID-19 crisis Wits Institute for Sport and Health (WISH) partners with InsightFit to create a COVID-19 Return to Training Tool.
Use it to help you make a safe return to your training schedule.
Football Medicine Supremo Mike Davison: A decade of dramatic change in sportsmedicine/sportsphysio
May 22, 2017
How has football medicine changed in the past 10 years? What is its future?
Mike Davison, managing director of Isokinetic Medical Group in London, one of the FIFA medical centers of excellence, gives us an excellent overview of football medicine: past, present, and future. In this hard-hitting podcast, we also preview the upcoming Isokinetic Conference in Barcelona, where representatives from over 88 countries are attending.
Concussions - Complete rest until symptom-free after concussion may not be best for recovery
February 04, 2017
New study to be presented at Pediatric Academic Societies 2016 Meeting found that youth who exercised within seven days of head injury had nearly half the rate of persistent post-concussive symptoms a month later
Transparency and innovative thinking: how rugby is tackling concussion (Part One)
November 05, 2016
British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) is a multi-media information portal that provides original research, reviews and debate relating to clinically-relevant aspects of sport and exercise medicine. We contribute to innovation (research), education (teaching and learning) and knowledge translation (implementing research into practice and policy). We use web, print, video and audio material to serve the international sport and exercise medicine community
What predicts ACL rupture? What prevents it? Tim Hewett (Mayo Clinic) and Kate Webster (La Trobe)
November 05, 2016
ACL injuries are some of the most common and debilitating injuries in athletes. In this podcast, Tim Hewett and Kate Webster talk about the biomechanical risk factors for ACL injury, the role and potential of screening, and the use of ACL prevention programmes.
Tim Hewett is an expert in biomedical engineering work at the Mayo Clinic and Kate Webster is an associate professor at La Trobe University. They are both speaking at the upcoming Sports Medicine Australia Conference-more details can be found here-tinyurl.com/h4ndfy2
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research papers
May 04, 2020
Persistent tendon pain that impairs function has inconsistent medical terms that can influence choice
Historically, the term ‘tendinitis’ was first used to describe tendon pain, thickening and impaired
function. When a person is told they have tendinopathy by clinician A or tendinitis by clini- cian B, they might feel confused or be alarmed at receiving what they might perceive as two different diagnoses
May 22, 2017
Performance enhancement and athlete wellbeing is the collective responsibility of the coach and all support staff (including but not limited to Physiology, Medicine, Strength and Conditioning, Physiotherapy, Nutrition, Psychology). Although driven by the coach and athlete, performance enhancement and athlete wellbeing should not be ‘owned’ by any single entity or discipline.
February 04, 2017
Acute adductor injuries are common in sports. In elite soccer, the season prevalence of acute adductor time-loss injuries is 14%, resulting in a mean (±SD) absence of 14 ± 24 days and an injury burden of 8 days per 1000 hours of exposure.
RTS is a continuum, which is reported to comprise 3 levels: return to participation (participation in sports but at a lower level than the RTS goal), return to the previous level of sport, and return to performance (RTS at a previous or higher level of performance.
