Adam C P Meakins

1.Inappropriately used social media in that you:

a. Used offensive and / or unprofessional language on / around 1 January 2019 in a Facebook post;

b. Used unprofessional language on / around 9 March 2019 in a video entitled “Does physio need a Wiki-Leaks event to progress” or words to that effect;

c. Used unprofessional language on 29 April 2019 in one or more tweets about the HCPC;

d. Used unprofessional language on / around 29 April 2019 in a private message to another physiotherapist;

e. Used unprofessional language on / around 23 July 2019 in a tweet, in which you said, “Good health has to be earned with hard work, self control and some discipline… #LowTolerance”

f. Used unprofessional language on / around 7 August 2019 in a tweet, in which you referred to the “low standard of and high variation in physiotherapy advice and treatment”

g. Used unprofessional language on / around 4 October 2019 in a tweet which referred to the “shitty beliefs and practices of some manual therapists”.

h. Posted a graphic on Twitter, in 2016, which copied published material without proper attribution and/or while presenting it as your own work;

i. In or around 2015, presented a model called the “Shoulder House Symptom Modification Tests” which copied and/or was significantly derived from the work of another physiotherapist, without proper attribution and/or while presenting it as your own work;

j. In or around June 2015 and/or in 2018, used unprofessional language on Twitter in that you used the word “dinosaurs” to refer to members of the physiotherapy profession;

k. In or around 2018, suggested in a blogpost that other physiotherapists had deliberately sabotaged a tour of your postgraduate shoulder course in Australia.

2. During a weekend training course on 18 and 19 November 2017, you used unprofessional and/or offensive language, in that you:

a. Repeatedly used swear words during your presentations;

b. Described a physiotherapist colleague as “a pretentious p****” and/or a “hypocrite” or words to that effect

3. Your conduct in paragraphs 1a – k and/or 2 constitutes misconduct.

4. By reason of your misconduct set out in paragraph 1a – k and/or 2, your fitness to practise is impaired.