ARossouw Biokineticists

08/01/2024

Come and join our last wellness day for the year🤩💪🏻 End off this year with banking points to begin the New Year with a bang 💥.

Contact us for bookings👉🏻 📖

We look forward to seeing you there 🏃‍♀️

05/12/2023

Vitality Wellness day at Hyperlife Medical Centre. Come in and get your last Vitality points for the year and earn up to 32500 POINTS!!! Book now as spots are filling up fast.

23/06/2023

PARKINSONS DISEASE

24/04/2023

10/01/2023

Come in and get those vitality points early. Earn your points and start your year with up to 32500 points!

24/11/2022

Introducing our new Biokineticist Holly to our thriving practice!

From a young age Holly had a passion for sports. If you name it, she's probably played it. It wasn't until 2013 when she was dancing and representing SA in Denmark, that she realised the need for Biokineticists who help in sports rehabilitation.

"I competed in all of my sports throughout my school career and through into university where I found my love for the gym and bodybuilding as well as action netball. When I'm not working you'll probably find me in the gym."

Graduating from Marist Brothers Linmeyer in 2017, she knew her path was leading her gelling people, and what better way to do so while combining her passion for sports as well as guiding people through their injury rehabilitation. While she was studying she became certified in sports massage, cupping, sports strapping, as well as IASTM blading and opened up her sports massage business where she treated many different people from the general public to professional athletes in soccer, swimming, bodybuilding and strongman, just to name a few.

She graduated in 2022 with a Bachelor of Biokinetics, achieving Ujenius honours awards throughout her studies.

"While I love helping all populations with all conditions from general wellness to chronic, I have a special interest in orthopaedic conditions with specific focus on knees, ankles and shoulders. I love working with all people no matter what the condition and I aim to give the best possible outcome to each one of my patients."

17/11/2022

𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠

👉 Many people don’t realize that many (66.66%) disc herniations reabsorb with time and conservative care.

🧬 The images in this post are from a case report from the New England Journal of Medicine (see reference) that documents the spontaneous resorption of a disc herniation without surgery.

🔎 Case Study: A 29-year-old woman presented to the spine clinic with new-onset pain in her right leg, accompanied by paresthesia. MRI of the lumbar spine revealed a lumbar disc herniation resulting in substantial spinal stenosis and nerve-root compression (first image).

📗 She elected conservative treatment with physical therapy and an epidural injection of glucocorticoids. A second MRI obtained at follow-up 5 months after presentation showed resolution of the herniation (second image). Her clinical symptoms resolved, and she was discharged from the clinic.

🧠 The details of this individual’s rehab were not given in the case study, but it is important to know that relatively simple programs that include movements like walking, general low back mobility drills and low-load resistance training exercises help the majority of people.

✅ Get hold of us today, so that we can help you.

📘References: Hong J and Ball PA. Resolution of Lumbar Disk Herniation without Surgery. N Engl J Med. 2016.

📙Zhong M, et al. Incidence of Spontaneous Resorption of Lumbar Disc Herniation: A Meta-Analysis. Pain Physician. 2017.

📒Chiu C, et al. The probability of spontaneous regression of lumbar herniated disc: a systematic review. Clin Rehabil. 2015.

10/11/2022

Come in for your Vitality Fitness Assessment and earn up to 7500 points!!!

23/07/2022

Very interesting article, have a read.

Understanding the emotional impact is so important.

13/07/2022

Don't forget to book for our Vitality Wellness Day on Saturday the 23rd of July. Please call 087 135 5050 or email [email protected] to book and earn up to 30 000 points!

26/06/2022

TISSUE HEALING

One of the most common issues I encounter when helping people recover from an injury or from surgery is of the healing times of various tissues. Everyone wants to be better now, but this isn’t realistic. Tissue healing takes time. We can’t rush it. And it’s important to understand that tissues heal at different rates depending on their physical makeup and blood supply, among other things. Additional contributing factors, such as diabetes, age, poor nutrition, inadequate rest, etc can further delay the healing process.

This chart shows the average range of healing times for various tissues in the body, including different grades of tissue injury for muscles, tendons, and ligaments. It can serve not only as a guide but also a reminder that we can’t force our bodies to heal faster than physiologically possible. What we can do is optimize the healing process by rehabbing appropriately, eating high quality food, getting adequate rest, and staying patient and positive throughout the journey.

Credit: .caleb.burgess

📚Axe MJ, et al. Potential Applications of Hyaluronans in Orthopaedics. Sports Medicine. 2005