A brief History of Time
2001-2017: From personal trainer, to human movement science undergraduate to Honours and Masters in Biokinetics (MPhil) and finally a post graduate diploma in Interdisciplinary Pain management (PG Dip) at the University of Cape Town.
2008-2019: From the Sport Science Institute of South Africa (SSISA) to the Sports Injuries Clinic (SIC) to private practice at the House of Holistic Health (HHH).
Resident Biokineticist Jonathan Joshua spans 20 years in the exercise science fraternity.
He is an exercise and rehabilitative specialist with a special interest in pain management and education, injury rehabilitation and injury prevention. He has since encountered a dynamic team of other like-minded clinicians that he works with very closely.
A playful trail runner and man of the forest.
Pain is…
“Protective”
“An adaptive mechanism, to protect or warn of possible or impending danger.”
“A normal response that may become maladaptive due to: 1) a maladaptive healing process in the presence of tissue damage, 2) a person’s social context, unique biological make-up, psychological framework and cognitive mechanisms. Not until much recently have we come to acknowledge that pain is an emergent outcome and expression that is complexly weaved into meaning and the person’s socio-ecological context.
“Pain is a personal, unsharable experience.”
Our Mission
To treat pain by treating the person, using context-specific target treatments via the use of actionable clinical tools such as pain neuroscience education and exercise as a therapy.