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Mohamed Riyaaz Khan Biokineticist, 46 Miller Avenue Park Rynie, Scottburgh (2025)

17/09/2025

📢Muscular dystrophy causes progressive muscle weakness, degeneration, and loss of muscle mass due to genetic mutations affecting muscle proteins. It affects the body by causing difficulties with mobility, leading to inability to walk or perform daily activities. Furthermore, it can lead to complications in other systems, including the heart, lungs, spine, and brain, with symptoms varying depending on the specific type of muscular dystrophy.

✅ Muscular Weakness and Loss of Mobility

➡️ Progressive Weakening: All forms of muscular dystrophy involve the progressive weakening and loss of muscle fibers, causing muscles to degenerate over time.

➡️ Impact on Movement: This results in difficulty walking, running, climbing stairs, and eventually, the loss of the ability to walk.

➡️ Contractures: Healthy muscle tissue can be replaced by fat and scar tissue, leading to stiff tendons and joints that become permanently flexed, known as contractures.

✅ Impact on Other Organs and Systems

➡️ Heart Problems: Muscular dystrophy can affect the heart muscle, leading to conditions like cardiomyopathy, where the heart muscle weakens or enlarges, potentially causing sudden death.

➡️ Respiratory Issues: Weakness in the muscles that support breathing can lead to respiratory infections, chronic breathing difficulties, or respiratory failure, sometimes requiring ventilator support.

➡️ Skeletal Complications: Progressive muscle weakness can result in a curved spine (scoliosis) and other skeletal deformities.

➡️ Neurological and Cognitive Effects: In some cases, muscular dystrophy can also affect the brain, leading to intellectual disabilities or learning disorders.

10/09/2025

📢 Common types of muscular dystrophy include:

➡ Duchenne & Becker (which are the most common)
➡ Myotonic (the most common adult-onset type)
➡ Limb-Girdle
➡ Facioscapulohumeral
➡ Congenital
➡ Distal
➡ Oculopharyngeal
➡ Emery-Dreifuss

➡ Symptoms and severity varying greatly. These are genetic disorders caused by faulty genes, leading to muscle weakness and degeneration, often affecting the heart, lungs, and other muscles.

⭐ General Characteristics

➡ Genetic Basis:
✅ All types are genetic disorders caused by mutations in genes that impact muscle protein production.

➡ Progressive Nature:
✅ Symptoms vary, with some forms progressing slowly over many years and others causing rapid muscle wasting and disability.

➡ Affected Systems:
✅ Many forms can affect the heart, lungs, and other vital organs in addition to the skeletal muscles.

03/09/2025

📢 Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a group of inherited genetic disorders that cause progressive weakness and loss of muscle mass over time. Symptoms vary widely by type but often include difficulty with movement, such as walking or running, muscle pain, and stiffness, and can lead to heart and breathing problems as the disease progresses. The condition is caused by genetic mutations that prevent the production of necessary proteins, leading to muscle cell damage and degeneration.

🧬 Causes and Genetics

➡️ Genetic mutations:
✅ MD is caused by changes in genes that are responsible for making proteins essential for healthy muscle function.

➡️ Inherited or spontaneous:
✅ The condition can be inherited from parents or can result from a new genetic mutation in the affected individual.

🧬 Symptoms vary by type, but common signs include:

➡️ Progressive muscle weakness and atrophy (loss of muscle mass)
➡️ Difficulty with mobility, such as climbing stairs, walking, or running
➡️ Clumsiness and frequent falling
➡️ A curved spine (scoliosis)
➡️ Heart and breathing problems
➡️Types of Muscular Dystrophy
➡️There are over 30 different types of MD, each affecting specific muscle groups and having unique patterns of onset and severity. Some examples include:

➡️ Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD): The most common type, affecting males primarily, with symptoms appearing in early childhood and leading to loss of ability to walk by the teen years.
➡️ Becker Muscular Dystrophy (BMD): Similar to DMD but with later onset and milder, slower progression.
➡️ Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD): Affects muscles of the face, shoulders, and arms.

🧬 Diagnosis and Treatment

➡️ A healthcare provider can diagnose MD based on symptoms, family history, and genetic tests.

There is no cure for MD, but treatments focus on managing symptoms. Therapies can include physical and occupational therapy, corticosteroids to slow progression, and devices to help with mobility and breathing.

28/08/2025

📢 Strength in shoulder muscles is crucial for padel to generate power, control shots, and improve stability, which directly enhances performance and reduces the risk of injury from repetitive overhead movements. Strong shoulders prevent fatigue, minimize the strain on the shoulder joint, and protect against conditions like "padel shoulder" or impingement by supporting proper movement and muscle coordination.

⭐ Performance Benefits

➡️ Increased Power:
✅ Strong shoulder muscles help to generate more explosive power for shots like serves, smashes, and bandejas.

➡️ Improved Control:
✅ Enhanced shoulder stability contributes to better coordination and more effective shot placement on the court.

➡️ Enhanced Range of Motion:
✅ While strengthening, a focus on mobility and flexibility also improves the shoulder's range of motion, allowing for more powerful and efficient movements.

⭐ Injury Prevention

➡️ Reduced Strain:
✅ Stronger shoulder muscles can handle the repetitive strain of overhead motions more effectively, preventing fatigue and inflammation that can lead to injury.

➡️ Protection from "Padel Shoulder":
✅ Padel involves many overhead movements, which can stress the shoulder joint. Strengthening these muscles helps to support the joint and reduce the risk of a broad range of shoulder and rotator cuff injuries, often referred to as "padel shoulder".

➡️ Increased Stability:
✅ The rotator cuff muscles, in particular, provide crucial stability to the shoulder joint during the rapid and high-intensity movements characteristic of padel.

⭐ How it Helps

➡️ Muscle Support:
✅ Strengthening the deltoids and rotator cuff muscles creates a more stable and resilient shoulder joint, better equipped to handle the demands of the sport.

➡️ Better Technique:
✅ With stronger and more stable shoulders, players can execute techniques more efficiently, leading to greater precision and control in their shots.

20/08/2025

📢 In padel sports, a biokineticist is essential for maximizing performance and avoiding injuries❗

⭐ A bio will evaluate movement patterns, create customized workout plans, and guarantee correct technique, all of which improve a player's capacity to play padel in a secure and efficient manner.

➡ The most frequent injuries in paddle sports are calf muscle strains, ankle sprains, and elbow tendinitis, sometimes known as tennis elbow. The lower back, knee, and shoulder are other common injury locations.

✅ So why not get in contact with your biokineticist today to improve your game and reduce your risk of injury💪🏻

13/08/2025

📢 Racket sports like tennis, badminton, and squash offer numerous physical and mental benefits for children. They enhance coordination, balance, and agility, while also improving cardiovascular health and bone density. Furthermore, these sports promote strategic thinking, decision-making skills, and social interaction, making them a well-rounded activity for kids.

📢 Biokinetics for kids focuses on using movement and exercise to improve physical function, development, and overall well-being. It's a specialized form of physical therapy that helps children with various conditions, from developmental delays to injuries, by designing tailored exercise programs to enhance their physical abilities and promote a healthy lifestyle.

⭐ How Biokinetics Helps Children:

✅ Addressing Specific Conditions
✅ Improving Physical Function
✅ Promoting Healthy Habits
✅ Enhancing Motor Skills
✅ Boosting Confidence
✅ Fun and Engaging Approach

Book a session with one of our experienced biokineticists today ❗

📍46 Miller Avenue, Park Rynie
📞039 976 0101
📱082 878 6233

06/08/2025

A bio can help a padel player by providing valuable insights into their physical condition and guiding them towards injury prevention and performance optimization. Biokineticists can assess movement patterns, develop tailored exercise programs, and offer rehabilitation strategies to enhance players' on-court performance and minimize injury risks.

Contact us to book a session with one of our qualified bios.

📞 082 878 6233
✉️ admin@mrkbios.co.za

📢 Here's how a bio (biokineticist) can assist padel players:

1️⃣ Injury Prevention:

✅ Assessing Movement
✅ Tailored Exercise Programs
✅ Rehabilitation and Recovery:
✅ Proper Warm-up and Cool-down

2️⃣ Performance Enhancement:

✅ Optimizing Movement Efficiency
✅ Developing Strength and Power
✅ Enhancing Agility and Reaction Time

3️⃣ Specific Strategies:

✅ Hip Mobility
✅ Core Strength
✅ Reaction Time

21/05/2025

Running can sometimes get a little complicated 🫠 so here is a few tips and tricks that can help with with improving your running form and posture and to get better results and be more efficient while running 🏃😁💪

22/04/2025

Running is an impact sport! Due to the fact that the most common running injuries can be associated with lower extremity strength deficits, it is extremely important to educate runners on WHY AND HOW they should perform strength training. A big takeaway from this infographic is that resistance training can help with running economy and efficiency by decreasing energy expenditure. Understanding this concept will help with understanding this graphic better!

Running can impose up to 8x your body weight in force on specific structures in the body. Because of this, running injuries are not uncommon, actually up to 50% of runners at some point in their life will experience an injury because of running. From research and our experience, we believe 80-90% of these injuries are due to training errors, with one of those errors being a lack of quality strength training! Every single runner out there can benefit from this infographic, be sure to share it!

17/04/2025

This week is Post-Rehabilitation Awareness Week: Rebuild, Recover, Restore!

The secret to recovery is movement. Rehabilitation aids in the restoration of function, strength, and mobility whether you're recovering from an illness, injury, or surgery. One step at a time, a biokineticist will assist you in regaining your mobility. Not getting better? Why not seek the help of a biokineticist?

16/04/2025

🏃‍♂️ REDUCING SPORTS INJURIES 🏃‍♀️

A meta-analysis dug into how different exercise interventions impact sports injuries—and the findings might surprise you.

💡 Despite the common belief that stretching prevents injuries, the study found that stretching alone isn’t an effective prevention measure. Instead, it revealed that strength training can reduce sports injuries by more than two-thirds, and overuse injuries by nearly half.

So, is stretching useless when it comes to injury prevention? Not quite. While general stretching routines might not lower your injury risk, targeted mobility work can make a difference, especially if you have specific mobility limitations that put you in poor positions during sports activities.

The key with mobility work is to identify the mobility limitations affecting your performance, address them, and then reinforce those gains with strength work to ensure lasting improvements.

31/03/2025

Why Strength Training? 💪🔥

Are you looking for a workout that transforms your body and boosts your overall health? Strength training isn't just about lifting weights—it’s about building a stronger, healthier YOU! Here’s why you should join our strength classes at MRK Biokineticists:

✅ Injury Prevention & Rehab – Strengthening your muscles supports your joints and reduces the risk of injuries.

✅ Boosts Metabolism – Burn calories even after your workout! Strength training increases muscle mass, which speeds up fat loss.

✅ Better Posture & Stability – Reduce back pain, improve balance, and enhance your everyday movements.

✅ Stronger Bones & Joints – Weight-bearing exercises help prevent osteoporosis and keep your bones healthy.

✅ Improves Athletic Performance – Strength training enhances speed, power, endurance, and agility, helping athletes perform better in any sport!

🔥 Why Strength Over Other Exercises?

Unlike cardio alone, strength training helps you sculpt your body while improving endurance and long-term functional fitness. It’s the key to aging strong and staying pain-free!

💪 Ready to get STRONGER, HEALTHIER, & MORE CONFIDENT?

Join our strength classes today at MRK Biokineticists! DM us to book your first session! 📩

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