| Angie Lander is a biokineticist and owner of Peak Biokinetics based in the Sport Science Institute of SA. She has a BSc (Med) Hons in Exercise Science (Biokinetics) degree and has a number of years experience overseas in both the USA and UK. She has worked with provincial and springbok rugby and cricket players as well as elite ice hockey players in Colorado.
Biokinetics is an integral part of the multi-disciplinary sports medicine approach. This profession utilises physical activity as the primary therapeutic modality in preventative health care and improvement of physical condition, as well as final phase rehabilitation for cardiac, orthopaedic, and chronic disease population groups. Biokineticists perform a comprehensive, functional assessment on each patient and then prescribe scientifically based exercise programmes based on their evaluation findings. These findings determine whether the patient has poor cardiovascular and respiratory function, muscle weakness or imbalances, inflexibility or instability or poor neuromuscular co-ordination.
The goal of Peak Biokinetics is to correct any underlying biomechanical problems that may be causing an injury and to prevent recurrence of that injury, while rehabilitating the individual to optimal physical health.
Conditions dealt with include cardiac, stroke and chronic disease conditions (diabetes etc) as well as orthopaedic injuries, lower back pain, joint replacements, cancer, arthritis, osteoporosis, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy and many others.
The team at Peak Biokinetics run a scientifically based back programme called Healthy Spines, in conjunction with the physiotherapy practice at SSISA. Peak Biokinetics are also the forerunners of a very popular ante- and postnatal exercise programme called Healthy Moms and this is the only programme of its kind to offer foetal heart rate monitoring with exercise.
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