Kinesiologists are human movement specialists who provide exercise and lifestyle-based services to enhance your health.

Practicing Kinesiologists are focused on helping you feel better, move better and live better more active lives.

They provide functional assessment and treatment services for the rehabilitation of people suffering from physical injuries sustained at work, in automobile collisions, in sports, and in other life activities.

Injury Assessment and Rehabilitation

One of their primary services is active rehabilitation, which consists of the assessment of physical function followed by the implementation and progression of an individually structured and tailored exercise program to enhance and promote the safe and dependable return to an individual’s regular life activities.

Kinesiologists can also perform specialized services, such as biomechanical analysis of injury, conduct job demands analysis, and functional capacity evaluations in relation to an individual’s occupational requirements. 

Health and Fitness

Kinesiologists design and conduct health and wellness programs for all age groups, teach and organize courses and workshops in health promotion, including general fitness, sports performance, athletic training, human nutrition, and general issues related to a person’s physical well-being.

Disability/Case/Health and Safety Management

Kinesiologists proactively assist clients by planning and arranging services to facilitate a safe return to work and to improve other activities of daily living. In cases where a return to work is not possible, we assist in determining the level of impairment and job retraining required. Other related services can include job coaching and insurance or health benefit claim management.

Kinesiologists are also employed in the capacity of health and safety managers, where they assess and monitor employees’ physical abilities in occupations that place high or unique physical demands on employees. A kinesiologist’s knowledge of the effects physical stress and workload has on the human body makes us ideally suited for this type of position.

We can be integral to the employee recruitment, training, monitoring, and assessment of the physical abilities of employees on an ongoing basis. They also manage and implement employee health and wellness programs.

Kinesiologists design and conduct health and wellness programs for all age groups. We teach and organize courses and workshops in health promotion including general fitness, sports performance, athletic training, human nutrition and general issues related to a person’s physical well-being.

Exercise Therapy

They provide exercise and lifestyle-based services to enhance the lives of those suffering from chronic diseases or physical and neurological injuries, such as diabetes, heart disease, lung disease, cancer, multiple sclerosis, autism spectrum disorder, osteoporosis, arthritis, and traumatic brain injury.

info taken from: https://bcak.bc.ca/for-the-public/areas-practice-kinesiologists/