About
Henry has a passion to help people achieve their health, wellness, rehabilitation and fitness goals by implementing a bespoke holistic approach to every client. He is a evidence based clinical sport and exercise specialist with the view exercise and effective movement is medicine and can be used to treat or prevent more than 35 different conditions and improving many others.
Henry started his education in South Africa with degrees in physiology and human Movement Science before starting his postgraduate degree in Biokinetics. In the 25 years after obtaining his postgraduate degree in Biokinetics in South Africa he successfully set up a practice in the U.K. Henry is the only non physiotherapist who is a official trusted Rehabilitation partner for the prestigious London Sports Orthopaedic practice.
Henry is one of a handful of Biokineticist in the U.K. and the longest to practice Biokinetics in the U.K. with decades experience in treating individuals with varied needs ranging from weight loss, orthopaedic rehabilitation, management of chronic disease, chronic pain, general health and wellness to golf specific conditions of players of all abilities.
With his experience and education background he has developed a training philosophy called Movement Re Education (MRE). The philosophy is based on the latest scientific evidence that ensures maximum results for all his clients. MRE looks to increase the efficiency of functional moment to maximise the effects of training and also to assure everyday movements and interactions with our environment can be done confidently and without developing pain.
Henry’s passion for movement and performance improvement comes from a sports background from young. He has always played a variety of sport, up to present day he still plays league cricket and have played cricket at a very high level when he was younger. His interest in rehabilitation springs from an injury to his ankle while playing rugby and being treated by a biokineticist. He was lucky enough to realise his ambitions some years later when he completed his degree in Biokinetics.
His primary qualifications are;
BSc Physiology and Human Movement Science
BSc (Hons) Biokinetics
Cert Osteopathic Studies
Titleist Performance Institute Certified
Your goal,
Be Pain Free
Get Leaner
Improve Your Golf
Injury Rehabilitation
Pre Surgery Pre-Rehabilitation
Move Better
Get Back to doing the things you love.
healthier
Services
Orthopaedic Rehabilitation
Golf Specific Conditioning
Bespoke Evidence Based 1-2-1 Training Programs for general health
Preventative medicine
What is Biokinetics
The Biokinetics Association of South Africa (BASA http://biokineticssa.org.za/) defines Biokinetics as “the science of movement and the application of exercise in rehabilitative treatment or performance.”
BIO + KINETICS = LIFE + MOVEMENT = LIFE THROUGH MOVEMENT
The Science of Movement and the application of exercise in rehabilitative treatment of performance.
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.
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 healthcare 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.
The 4 main areas Biokineticist are qualifies into dealing with is
Chronic Disease Management
Clinical exercise prescription to combat the ailments of many chronic diseases & lifestyle related illnesses such as, but not limited to, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes mellitus and many other cardiovascular & pulmonary conditions
Sport Performance
Implementing high performance testing and conditioning specific to the physiological demands of your sport in order to maximize game and competitive performance.
Orthopaedic Rehabilitation
Prescription of therapeutic exercise to improve range of motion, stability, strength, functional capacity & to reduce pain associated with injury. Rehabilitation is provided for both pre & post-operative patients in the general population as well as the athlete.
Special Populations
Assessment and prescription of safe exercise programs for children, pre and post-natal pregnant women and the elderly.
Contact
➤ LOCATION
33-35 Chiswell street, London, EC1Y 4SF
Wood’s Mews, Mayfair, W1K
☎ CONTACT
henry@londonbiokinetics.com
Areas of Practice
ORTHOPEDIC Rehabilitation
Prescription of therapeutic exercise to improve range of motion, stability, strength, functional capacity & to reduce pain associated with injury. Rehabilitation is provided for both pre & post-operative patients in the general population as well as the athlete.
CHRONIC DISEASE MANAGEMENT
Clinical exercise prescription to combat the ailments of many chronic diseases & lifestyle related illnesses such as, but not limited to, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes mellitus and many other cardiovascular & pulmonary conditions
Chronic Disease Management
Clinical exercise prescription to combat the ailments of many chronic diseases & lifestyle related illnesses such as, but not limited to, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes mellitus and many other cardiovascular & pulmonary conditions
GOLF SPECIFIC CONDITIONING
Being titleist Performance Institute Certified, golfers of all abilities can benefit from conditioning to improve performance, minimise risk of injury and increase enjoyment of playing the game.
sport PERFORMANCE
Implementing high performance testing and conditioning specific to the physiological demands of your sport in order to maximize game and competitive performance.