Hi, I’m Srikanth. I founded Axis Physiotherapy in 2011, and I have been a physiotherapist for more than twenty-two years.

I hold an MSc Physiotherapy (Neurology) from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, and neurological rehabilitation has been the thread running through my whole career — alongside a great deal of post-surgical and musculoskeletal rehabilitation. On the musculoskeletal side I have completed the full series of training modules with the Society of Musculoskeletal Medicine. I have worked in neuro-rehabilitation units and on hospital wards, in the community, in community rapid response and early supported discharge teams, in A&E, and in GP surgeries as a First Contact Physiotherapist.

Working across that many settings, as part of large multidisciplinary teams and alongside consultants and senior therapy colleagues, is where most of what I know actually came from. It also means I have met the same person at the acute end, at the point of discharge, and at home six months later — so I know where the gaps between those stages are. Axis exists to fill them.

During my time with London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust I was nominated for the Trust’s Staff Excellence Award in three separate years.

My particular interest is long-term neurological disability. I believe in open conversations rather than optimistic ones: setting goals that are realistic, working at your pace rather than a protocol’s, and bringing family and carers into the rehabilitation rather than leaving them outside it. In my experience, someone who understands why they are doing an exercise — and who has support at home that understands it too — tends to get further. Where it helps, I will also liaise directly with your consultant, GP or wider therapy team, as I did throughout my NHS career.

Alongside seeing patients I lead the clinical standards at Axis and I mentor the team: how we assess, how we set goals with people, how we hand over between clinicians, and how we decide when someone no longer needs us. That last point matters to me. Nobody here is paid per session, we do not sell treatment packages, and if you are getting better and can manage on your own, I would rather you did.

If you or someone in your family is living with a stroke, Parkinson’s, MS, a brain injury or another long-term neurological condition — or you are worried about an older parent whose mobility, balance or confidence is slipping — I will spend 15 minutes on the phone with you. It is a phone call, not an appointment: no charge, no obligation, just an honest view on whether physiotherapy can realistically help and what it would involve.