**9. Conclusion**

The profession of Biokinetics is an exercise therapy vocation that advocates habitual physical activity and exercises as an adjunct to other management strategies adopted within a multi-disciplinary healthcare support team. At present, the profession of Biokinetics is only operational in the private healthcare sector in South Africa. Biokinetics has shown to be a valuable adjunct therapeutic modality both in the pathogenic and fortogenic healthcare paradigms. Numerous experimental research studies have been undertaken illustrating the efficacy of Biokinetic exercise therapy programmes in managing NCDs and improving the quality of life of patients. The inclusion of Biokinetics holds significant promise in helping to better manage the NCD epidemic in the South African public healthcare sector. Exercise therapy is a substantially more cost-effective alternative to other healthcare management strategies as concerns the ongoing management of NCDs within the South African population. The profession of Biokinetics is comparable to the South African professions of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy who also prescribe exercise and human movement activity as a rehabilitative modality, however these professions are allowed to function within the South African healthcare public sector. Internationally, clinical exercise physiologists, clinical kinesiologists and exercise specialist (scientists) who have an analogous scope of profession to that of Biokinetics function within both the private and public healthcare sector. As such the authors strongly recommend the inclusion of the profession of Biokinetics into the South African public healthcare sector.
