Adam C P Meakins

Profession: Physiotherapist

Registration Number: PH64947

Hearing Type: Final Hearing

Date and Time of hearing: 09:00 30/11/2026 End: 17:00 04/12/2026

Location: virtual via virtual conference

Panel: Conduct and Competence Committee
Outcome: Hearing has not yet been held

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Allegation

FTP68386 
Whilst registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a 
Physiotherapist, you: 


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 pxxx” 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. 


FTP78366 
As a registered Physiotherapist (PH64947) your fitness to practise is impaired 
by reason of misconduct, in that: 
1. On or around 25 September 2019 you displayed inappropriate behaviour 
that was posted on social media, in that: 
a. You grabbed a volunteer’s nipple during a class. 
b. You touched a volunteer’s genitals during the class. 
c. You did not communicate professionally during a class in that you asked 
the volunteer whether he felt “like a virgin anymore” or words to that 
effect and displayed the words “Neuromodulation Fxxx about with the 
nervous system.” 
2. On or around 30 December 2018 you displayed inappropriate behaviour 
that was posted on social media, in that: 
a. You grabbed a volunteer’s nipples during a class. 
b. You used inappropriate language during the class in that you used the 
words “fxxx” and or “fxxx”. 
3. The matters listed in particulars 1 and 2 constitute misconduct. 
4. By reason of your misconduct your fitness to practise is impaired. 
FTP78859 
As a registered Physiotherapist (PH64947) your fitness to practise is impaired 
by reason of misconduct. In that: 
1. On or around 5 April 2020 you demonstrated unprofessional conduct on 
Social Media in that you made a post that contained incorrect information 
about Person A’s business in respect of them treating patients in breach 
of government Covid-19 guidelines. 
2. Between 14 March 2020 and 22 April 2020 you used inappropriate 
language on social media in that you used the words and/or phrases: 
a) “Fxxx” 
b) “Wxxx” 
c) “Thick as sxxx” 
d) “Bxxx” 
e) “Dxxx” 
f) “Fxxx” 
3. The matters listed in particulars 1-2 constitute misconduct. 
4. By reason of your misconduct your fitness to practise is impaired. 


FTP90963 
As a registered Physiotherapist (PH64947): 
1. Between 1 May 2019 and 31 July 2023, you posted one or more 
derogatory and/or negative comments about Complainant 1 and/or 
Organisation C of which Complainant 1 was the CEO and founder, as set 
out in Schedule A.         
2. Your conduct at Particular 1 amounted to harassment of Complainant 1. 
3. The matters set out in particulars 1 and/or 2 above constitute misconduct. 
4. By reason of the matters set out above, your fitness to practise is impaired 
by reason of misconduct.


FTP 90963- Schedule A 
a.  
You referred to Complainant 1 on more than one Instagram 
Story and/or post as, “Bent BogBrush”, or words to that 
effect; 
b.  
You referred to Complainant 1 on more than one Instagram 
Story and/or post as, “Dr Bonk BrookBook”; 
c.  
You referred to Complainant 1 on more than Instagram Story 
and/or post as, “Dr Brunt BookBrush” or words to that effect; 
d.  
You referred to Complainant 1 on one or more Instagram 
stories and/or post as, “a Clown” 
 
 
 
e.  You referred to Complainant 1 on an Instagram Story as, “a 
cancer on our profession”; 
 
f.  You referred to Complainant 1 on an Instagram Story as a, 
“bellend”; 
 
g.  On an occasion between November 2018 and February 
2019, you posted on Instagram a mock news article in 
relation to Complainant 1’s practise; 
 
h.  You referred to Complainant 1’s actions and/or opinions on 
one or more occasions as “bxxx” and/or “BS”; 
i.  You referred to Organisation C on more than one occasion 
as; 
 
i. the “Bxxx Institute”  
 
ii. the “Bogbrush Institute” and/or 
 
iii. the “Crapper Institution” 
 
or words to that effect. 
 
j.  You referred to Complainant 1’s social media post as “utterly 
idiotic and spectacularly stupid”, or words to that effect. 

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Hearing History

History of Hearings for Adam C P Meakins

Date Panel Hearing type Outcomes / Status
30/11/2026 Conduct and Competence Committee Final Hearing Hearing has not yet been held
18/11/2024 Conduct and Competence Committee Final Hearing Adjourned
10/07/2023 Conduct and Competence Committee Final Hearing Adjourned