Kelowna Kinesiology

Get moving again after an injury.

I am Aaron Buat, a kinesiologist serving Kelowna and the surrounding area. If you have an ICBC claim, I am an approved provider and bill ICBC directly, so there is no paperwork or reimbursement process for you to manage.

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  • ICBC direct billing
  • BCAK member since 2017
  • 10 years full time
  • 4 Kelowna locations
Aaron Buat, kinesiologist, standing on the training floor of a Kelowna gym.

Two ways people work with me

Pick the one that sounds like you. Both start with a conversation, not a commitment.

Injury recovery

Once an injury claim is made, ICBC pre-approves 12 kinesiology treatments within the first 12 weeks after a crash. No physician or nurse-practitioner referral is required. We start with an initial meeting and movement assessment, then build your exercise program around what hurts, what you need to get back to, and how your recovery is progressing. As an approved provider, I bill ICBC directly.

ICBC approved · Direct billed

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Personal training

I offer one-on-one, partner and group personal training, along with custom workouts and guided supervision. We start with how you move, then build the program around your goals—whether that means improving strength and mobility, returning from an old injury, or preparing for a season or event. Sessions run from 30 to 60 minutes and create the accountability to make movement part of your routine and support your physical and mental well-being.

$90 per session · A small number of spots

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The part nobody explains

What a kinesiologist actually does

Kinesiology is the scientific study of how the human body moves. It draws on strength and conditioning, sport psychology, motor control, skill acquisition and rehabilitation. Here is how that translates into your recovery or training.

A physiotherapist
Assesses and treats injuries, often with a mix of hands-on care, education and exercise.
A personal trainer
Coaches exercise and fitness toward the goals you set.
A kinesiologist

Focuses on the movement side of recovery and performance. I assess how you move, identify what is limiting you, and guide you through prescribed movements and an individualized exercise program. I can work alongside physiotherapists, chiropractors, occupational therapists and other members of your care team.

You do the movement. I watch, coach and adjust it in real time so the program keeps matching your progress.

Services

What I work on

Injury prevention and rehabilitative support

Keeping a problem from coming back. I look at the movement that produced it, then load it gradually until it holds up under normal life again.

Individualized exercise programs

Your program is written for your body, your history and the equipment you actually have. It gets rewritten as you progress, not handed to you once.

Performance enhancement

For athletes and for anyone whose goal has a date attached to it. Strength, power and movement quality, planned backward from when you need to be ready.

Movement assessments

A structured look at range of motion, strength through that range, and where your body is compensating. Every program I write starts here.

Chronic and acute symptom management

Long standing pain and stiffness, or a fresh flare up. We work around what hurts, rebuild capacity in what does not, and bring the sore side back in when it is ready.

Aaron Buat resting a foot on a weight bench between sets, mid conversation.

About

Ten years, mostly on a gym floor

I have been practicing kinesiology full time for ten years, and I have been a practicing member of the British Columbia Association of Kinesiologists since 2017.

I work out of four gyms around Kelowna, and I will come to you if getting to a gym is the hard part right now. Most weeks I run between thirty and forty sessions, which is a long way of saying I spend my days watching people move rather than sitting behind a desk.

Most of my rehab clients come to me with an ICBC claim, usually referred by a physiotherapist or a doctor. The rest of my week is private training. The two are more similar than they sound: assess first, write the program around the person, then keep adjusting.

  • Practicing member, BC Association of Kinesiologists Since 2017
  • Full time practice 10 years
  • ICBC approved provider Direct billing
  • Session formats One-on-one, partner, group

Where to find me

Four gyms in Kelowna, plus wherever you are

Sessions run at the location that suits your schedule and your stage of recovery. Tell me which is easiest and we will start there.

In the gym

Or I come to you

In your home
If stairs, driving or pain make getting to a gym unrealistic right now.
Outdoors and mobile
Wherever the session makes more sense than a gym floor.
Over video
When travel is the obstacle rather than the movement.

Service area Kelowna, West Kelowna and Lake Country

For referring practitioners

Sending a patient my way

I take active rehabilitation referrals from physiotherapists, chiropractors, massage therapists and physicians across the Central Okanagan.

Scope

  • Active rehabilitation and exercise prescription
  • Range of motion and movement assessment
  • Graded loading and return to work or sport
  • No diagnosis and no manual therapy. I take the active side and stay in my lane

Billing

  • ICBC approved provider
  • Direct billing to ICBC, so your patient is not paying up front and claiming back
  • Private pay for non claim clients

How to refer

  1. Send the patient's name and a one line summary by phone or email.
  2. I contact them directly and book the initial assessment.
  3. I share assessment findings and progress updates with you on request.
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Contact

Book a session

Tell me a bit about what is going on. If I do not pick up I am with a client, so leave a message or use the form and I will come back to you.