Kinesiologist

A kinesiologist is a health care provider who helps with the analysis of the human body movement.

Duties and responsibilities:

• To monitor the human muscles.
• Practice healing techniques.
• Help people with their physical injuries by managing their condition, rehabilitating them to their old health, and making sure that there isn’t any complications.
• They show people how to move their muscles without them actually hurting them selfs more.

*Note there is more than one type of kinesiologist, all which have different specialties. The one listed above is the most common Kinesiologist.

Salary: The median salary of a kinesiologist is around $56,980 annually.

Education: This career is required at least a bachelor’s degree but in other places a higher degree may be asked for. In order to start your path on this new adventure you must first find out what it’s about. So the first thing people do is research this career to get familiar with the job. Then you must decide what type of kinesiologist you would like to be. It’s recommended to go to a college that has more than one program on the kinesiologist category so you're not that limited. Your bachelor’s degree can be on the actual kinesiologist career or on exercise science. For exercise science you course will be consisting of biomechanics, Physiology, and anatomy.

Demand or need for this profession: this job is said to grow 34% for physical therapist, 6% for coaches, and 8% for fitness workers from 2014 to 2024.

Reflection: This job is great and it's great how these people help the injured recover but i don't think this job is fit for me. I want to help people but in a different way. I don’t think that rehabilitation is the way.