Michael Botha was born in Pretoria and has almost always been right here in the “Moot”. He attended Laerskool Voorpos, then Hoërskool Oos Moot, before completing his degree and honors degree in Biokinetics at the University of Pretoria in 2011. He completed his intern year in George in the Western Cape, before returning to Pretoria immediately after, at the end of 2013. There he started his own Biokinetics practice in 2015, the same year he met his now wife, and together they have two beautiful children. Michael has, what he calls it, the benefit of having had most injuries himself, giving him personal experience in the treatment and successful rehabilitation of them all. Having gone through shoulder and knee surgery, chronic lower back pain, Achilles tendon problems, and partial paralysis of his right leg, he is still an avid recreational runner and golfer, doing about 30-40km per week, and playing golf of a handicap of 9. He finds joy in seeing people get their lives back through movement and has the pleasure of seeing this almost daily. He will never give up on a rehabilitation, and believes that anything is possible if you set your mind to it.