Kinesiology & Personal Training
What is a Registered Kinesiologist?
Kinesiologists understand how muscles, bones, and nerves all work together. Their knowledge helps them to deal with injuries, and improve sport performance. They combine the best parts of fitness, wellness, and healthcare. Kinesiologists are regulated health professionals that work with all ages to help them feel good and live well.
Kinesiologists help with:
- Making sure you stay fit and healthy
- Rehabilitating stubborn injuries
- Managing comorbidities such as osteoarthritis
- Making movement feel safe and comfortable
- Optimize fitness and sport performance
- Accelerating return to work and return to sport
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What is Kinesiology?
Kinesiology for the development of physical fitness and health.
To better understand your current abilities and limitations, our kinesiologists check how your joints move. They look for any movement or postural compensations that might make other parts of your body do too much or hurt. They also watch how you move to see if you can control your body well in functional movements like the squat or pushup.
With all this information, our kinesiologists make a plan just for you. This plan focuses on safe exercises that will help you get stronger and more coordinated. Their goal is to help you reach your full potential quickly and safely.
Our Values
- We believe in a holistic approach to develop your mind, body, and spirit.
- Our clients improve though positivity, honesty, and empathy.
- We always put forward out best efforts at the highest ethical standard.
- We foster a healthy environment for our staff or clients.
- By working together as an expert team, we achieve faster results for our clients.
Who do we work with?
There are three main populations that we work with:
General Population
- Rehab Hero Kinesiologists work with people of all ages and abilities in all stages of life to help them reach their health and wellness goals. This includes personal fitness, rehabilitation, or sport performance optimization.
People with health problems
- Everyone's health and activity needs are different. So, kinesiologists work with other health experts to give the best care possible. This includes dealing with metabolic, heart, lung, brain, bone, chronic pain and other disorders.
People without symptoms
- Kinesiologists work with adults, even if they're pregnant, specific groups like paramedics nurses, workers, and teachers, athletes and adventurous people, kids and teens, and students in varsity sports.
Fascial Stretch Therapy
In order to understand Fascial Stretch Therapy you first need to know what fascia is! Fascia is an important piece of connective tissues that connects your muscles, tendons, ligaments, bones, and organs together. In respect to your movement and health, it is one of the limiting factors for hypomobility or the feeling of stiffness. Fascia connects chains of muscles together (known as fascial trains). Muscles connected by the same piece of fascia often work together to produce locomotion. When one part of the fascia is stiff it can negatively impact another area of the body.
Fascial stretch therapy is a form of assisted stretching techniques used by our certified kinesiologists to 'loosen up' fascial trains. They do so by stretching out multiple muscles at the same time in a rhymical fashion. This is often combined with muscle energy techniques such as Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation and Post Isometric Relaxation.
Personal training & kinesiology
We provide expert personal training by kinesiologists in Markham. We specialize in improving physical fitness while working around joint and muscle injuries, and other medical limitations. As healthcare professionals, our kinesiologists take regular personal training sessions to the next level. While we help people with and without health issues, we also focus on muscle, heart, brain, and metabolic problems.
Unlike general personal training services, working with our kinesiologists can you reimbursed for through private health insurance benefits or claim medical costs on your taxes. If your muscles or joints hurt or you have a medical problem, we'll find out why. If needed, we'll work with your doctor or healthcare team to make a plan just for you.
Don’t let your injuries or health conditions stop you from getting started on your fitness journey.
Exercise coaching
First, we begin with an assessment. We'll ask about any injuries or health issues you've had before. Then, we'll help you choose exercises that are best for reaching your goals. You can get stronger, feel better, and be healthier overall!
Nutrition coaching
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Lifestyle coaching
We'll make a plan that fits with your schedule. You'll learn how to do things right, build good habits, and think in ways that make changes stick long term.
Accountability & Support
We're with you with every step. Your personal trainer and kinesiologist will check in with you weekly to help you stay on track and keep doing well with getting results.
Medical Fitness Testing
Rehab Hero Kinesiologists offer medical fitness testing to determine your baseline flexibility, strength, stability, and mobility levels. Whether you are looking to become more physically active, dealing with an old injury, or looking to take things to the next level, we measure and use these values to objectify results. We test:
- Your full range of motion
- Full body maximal voluntary isometric strength
- Functional Movements
- Muscular Endurance
- Blood Pressure and Heart Rate
- Posture and Muscle Balance Symmetry
Test Duration - 1 hour
Programs
Healthy Aging
Aging never stops, but that doesn't mean have to deteriorate. Be safe while getting stronger and healthier in a private, and clean clinic. Minimize aches and pains while getting toned. Discover a new way to stay healthy and fit after 40. Boost your energy to enjoy life and overcome your personal fitness issues. Use performance therapy to move and live better. Get help from our top kinesiologists and find out where you need to get stronger.
Transformation Program
Are you looking to lose weight but scared of hurting yourself? Are there clothes that you've been wanting to fit in while getting stronger and building toned muscle? Do you need help from experts about lifestyle changes? Do you have pains that stop you from working out properly? Do you need accountability to stay on track of your program? If the answer is yes, the this program is for you. It's made for anyone who wants to improve fitness, prevent injuries, and feel great!
FAQs
Is Kinesiology covered by insurance or health benefits?
Yes, some extended health insurance plans cover kinesiology services. Contact your insurance company for more information. You may also submit out-of-pocket kinesiology expenses on your annual tax return. Ask your accountant for more information.
To learn more about kinesiologist using health insurance call us at 647-947-9491.
Is a referral needed?
No, you don't need a referral to see any of our kinesiologists. Our kinesiologists work with Rehab Hero physiotherapists and chiropractors who can diagnose and treat muscle and bone injuries. We also team up with sports medicine and family doctors. If you want, we can work with your GP too.
Why should I see a kinesiologist?
There are a lot of reasons why you should see a kinesiologist and it all stems from a need to becoming healthier. On this journey, its without a doubt that you would want to start exercising... and you might think it’s easy at first, but after a few weeks or months, things can change. You might get pain, not see results, and lose motivation. That's when you realize you need help and that's where a kinesiologist comes in!
- They create a safe exercise plan for you.
- They assess for muscular imbalances.
- They monitor your progress and keep you motivated.
- They make sure you do exercises correctly.
- They keep you going by making your plan better over time.
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They make sure you're having FUN and getting the RESULTS you want!
What's the difference between a Personal Trainer and Kinesiologist?
Generally speaking, all kinesiologists can be personal trainers but not all personal trainers can be kinesiologists. At Rehab Hero, our certified experts do BOTH. Personal trainers and kinesiologists check your needs, make a program, and guide you through personalized exercises. However, the big difference comes if you have a complicated injury or health issue. If you need someone with a scientific background or specialized training in athletic therapy, understanding the difference between kinesiologists and personal trainers is crucial.
Education:
Personal trainers may have a certification that can take a few weeks or months to earn. They learn about fitness theory, and weight training.
Kinesiologists, on the other hand, have a four-year bachelor’s degree in kinesiology or human kinetics. They study anatomy, physiology, rehab, and biomechanics in depth. They also continue their education with workshops and courses like Functional Range Conditioning and Fascial Stretch Therapy.
Scope of Practice:
A personal trainer's scope is limited to fitness coaching and basic nutrition advice.
Kinesiologists have a broader scope. They can work in athletic therapy, assess posture, prescribe exercises for injuries, and provide ergonomic assessments in addition to what a typical personal trainer provides. They are trained to work with diverse populations, including those with complex health conditions.
Work Settings:
Personal trainers are often found in gyms, private studios, or offering classes.
Kinesiologists work not only in gyms and sports facilities but also in hospitals, clinics, and academic settings. They collaborate with physiotherapists, doctors, and chiropractors to help clients with injuries and health conditions.
While personal trainers focus on fitness and basic nutrition, kinesiologists additionally handle complex cases and work in diverse healthcare and academic environments.
The main differences between a Rehab Hero Kinesiologist and a Personal Trainer in Markham are knowing how to manage injuries & conditions, and having a four-year Kinesiology undergraduate degree.
All Kinesiologists are registered and regulated under the same government healthcare rules as physiotherapists, massage therapists and chiropractors. They operate under a greater degree of scrutiny than what's needed for a personal trainer.
At Rehab Hero, Kinesiologists provide personal training services through Performance Therapy. These services can help with losing fat and gaining muscles.