Riaan Van Der Merwe
Education
  • Univ. StelB BA Human Movement Science 2000
  • Univ. StelB Hons. (Biokinetics) 2001
  • Biokinetics internship at Stephan Muller 2002, Sandton Biokinetic Centre
Internship:
  • Internship by Stephan Muller
Experience:
  • Virgin Active, Morningside 2004 to 2009
  • Virgin Active, Sunninghill 2006 to 2008
  • Morningside Sports Centre, Morningside Medi Clinic 2007 to 2017
  • Trained and helped qualify 30 Biokineticists
Achievements:
  • Biokinetic Association Award winning clinical software development
Like to treat:
  • Orthopaedic conditions
  • Posture and pain
  • Pre & Post operative rehabilitation
  • Clients range from kids to elderly
Dylan Cox
Education
  • BSport Science (2015)
  • BHSc Hons Biokinetics(2016)
  • Internship (2017)
  • Fifa dip football medicine (2023)
Experience:
  • Expert in athletic recovery, elite performance, and professional football conditioning.
Achievements:
  • Nedbank Cup runner up (Sekhukhune 2023)
  • MTN 8 Champions (Orlando Pirates 2025)
  • Carling Black Label Cup Champions 2025
  • Betway Premiership Champion (2026)
Like to treat:
  • Kids training
  • Isokinetic testing
  • Rehabilitation
  • Strength and conditioning
  • Injury prevention Return to play testing
  • Orthopaedic conditions
Natalie Phillips
Education
  • Registered Biokineticist with HPCSA
  • BSc Human Movement Sciences (WITS)
  • BSc Medical Honours biokinetics (UCT)
  • Currently completing studies in Yoga Therapy
Experience:
  • Qualified Biokineticist
  • 17 years experience in movement and rehabilitative therapy.
  • Certified Vinyasa Yoga teacher
  • Pilates instructor
Achievements:
  • Evidence based rehabilitation for musculoskeletal injuries, post operative recovery & chronic conditions
Like to treat:
  • Elderly
  • Isokinetic testing
  • Rehabilitation
  • Strength and conditioning
  • Injury prevention
  • Chronic conditions
Caitlin Miles
Education
  • Registered Biokineticist (HPCSA)
  • BA Sports Science (SU, 2016)
  • Bsc (Hons) Biokinetics (SU, 2017)
  • Biokinetics Internship (SSISA, 2018)
  • MPhil Biokinetics (UCT, Candidate)
Achievement:
  • Intern training (7 years experience)
  • Soigneur for Mauritian National Cycling Team
Experience:
  • Sports Science Institute of South Africa (SSISA) for 8 years
  • Staff Interest & Wellness Coordination at SSISA (Employee Wellness)
  • Programme Head for SSISA Running Strength & Kid’s Club
  • Adidas Brand Coach - running and golf footwear specialist
  • Pilates & Barre Qualified
Like to treat:
  • Orthopaedic injury & musculoskeletal dysfunction
  • Strength & Conditioning for all sports, but specifically running, dancing, cycling & golf
  • Return to play
  • Chronic disease management
  • Kids to elderly

Assessments and Sessions

  • Please arrive 5 minutes earlier than your appointment to sign and complete x3 simple forms
  • Please bring comfortable clothes/gym clothes for the assessment.

Late Cancellations –

We do understand that life happens, a 12 hour cancellation policy will be appreciated; otherwise, late cancellations will be charged for. On the day, rescheduling will be considered the same as a late cancellation.

Accounts –

We are contracted out of Medical Aid.
(You pay your account with us, we send you a paid-up statement for you to send your Medical Aid )
We do not charge Medical Aid rates, nor do we submit for you.

Assessments –

Can cost from R950.00 – R1300.00

Follow up sessions –

Can range between R711.00 – R950.00

Accounts –

We are contracted out of Medical Aid.
( You pay your account with us, we send you a paid up statement for you to send your Medical Aid )
We do not charge Medical Aid rates nor do we submit for you.

At iMude, our goal is to understand how your injury occurred and how it has affected your body.

A major focus of our practice is helping people recover from orthopaedic injuries. This includes injury prevention, post-surgical rehabilitation, and guiding patients back to sport, activity, or their pre-injury level of function. We treat a wide range of conditions, from ankle injuries and lower back pain to chronic neck pain. Our care is tailored to everyone—from office workers who spend long hours at a desk to serious athletes training six to seven times per week.
place and the consequence thereof on your body

We aim to provide you with unparalleled care and professional service.

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Discover the problem

The information collected allows us to determine:

  • The underlying source of your injury
  • Whether the source of the problem may be different from where you feel the pain
  • Which training techniques may not be appropriate for your injury
  • Which muscles need to be strengthened
  • Which muscles may be overworked
  • Which muscles are not activating properly
  • Which muscles need stretching
  • Which fascial structures may benefit from foam rolling
  • Whether you may simply need a more balanced exercise programme

Recurring injuries

In some cases, injuries may take longer than expected to improve. This may be partly because you might:

  • Continue training a tight muscle that may be contributing to the problem
  • Overstretch a muscle that does not need stretching
  • Fail to activate the correct muscle through the exercises you are doing
  • Not require exercise at all, but rather benefit more from tissue release, stretching, or rest
  • Need a different rehabilitation approach, as some injuries take longer to assess and may require more than one treatment strategy
  • Need to make postural adjustments or changes to your workstation setup
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Test-Treat Philosophy

We make it an active process to get the answers and best treatment plan for your injury

A test-treat-retest philosophy gives us confidence that we are treating the patient correctly. With post-op patients we blend post-surgical guidelines with your personal requirements. This way we follow protocols but make it personal to your requirements. We make it an active process to get the answers and best treatment plan for your injury. Whether you suffer from an injury or are post-surgery we will take you through a serious battery of return to play tests, after which we either clear you fit to resume your sport and activity levels or wait a little longer.

Assessment Tools

Acute or chronic injuries can happen through a single event or through a repetition of movements.  We use the tools below to help us understand your injury. This way we can form hypotheses, test them and form new ones to get the desired plan of action to treat your condition. The list below is by no means the full list, but it gives one a better understanding of our thinking processes:

01
Patient and Lifestyle Factors - Age, sleep patterns, medication, sport, work, plus work environment, office set up, daily activities, trained vs untrained
02
How the injury occurred – Contact vs non-contact, how did it happen, what happened to your body or the joint at the time of the incident, acute vs chronic
03
Training history – Do you stretch: how and which muscles, weight training, illustrate technique, how often (frequency/intensity/duration?)

Assessment:

01
Posture – Malalignments, gait patterns, joint positions, posture type, imbalances in joint positions, imbalances between right and left side, bony landmarks- all of this helps with possible muscle imbalance identification
02
Range of motion – Imbalances between right and left side, blocked movements
03
Muscle – Firing patterns, atrophied muscles, manual strength tests (manual strength tests form part of our reassessment tools to verify if a treatment modality is working or to eliminate a treatment plan)
04
Restricted tissue – We feel for restrictions in certain tissue areas. These restrictions can inhibit muscle firing patterns as well as alter posture – the client is then encouraged to release these restrictions using foam rollers (and or balls, etc) as well as stretching techniques combined with dynamic movement patterns.
05
Functional tests – Various functional tests are performed to give us information of joint movement – these include throwing actions, kicking, squatting, stepping, running, cutting movements and any movement that the patient feels may cause him/her pain. Painful movements gives us a baseline to compare if a treatment plan is working or not

Specialized equipment testing –

01
The Biodex tests all the joints’ muscle strength and gives us comparisons between the left vs right vs normative data.
02
The MCU tests neck range of motion plus strength and gives us a radar graph to show weakness of the neck muscles in all planes

Case Studies

The following are random examples of possible conditions treated

Adductor Strain

Type: Injury

Lower Back Pain

Type: Injury

Knee Replacement

Type: Post surgery

Rotator Cuff Repair

Type: Post surgery

What Our Client Say About Us

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