A physio who aided Team India at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and 2012 Olympics has shared his plans to expand his Twickenham businesses.
Patrick Kenny, 40, founded Move Physio, on York Street, in 2018 and added Precision Health, on King Street, earlier this year as a result of popular demand.
Kenny moved away from his role in sports rehabilitation, where he worked with top Indian athletes such as double-trap shooting world record holder Ronjan Sodhi, to work part-time as a physiotherapist, before going full-time and opening Move Physio.
He said: “I’ve taken a lot of risks. This was myself funding this, my house on the line if this doesn’t go well.”
Move Physio grew quickly, using research and advanced methods such as diagnostic ultrasound, with physios also backing their own judgement and forging a connection with their patients.
Kenny said: “We do a lot of personal coaching, a lot of physical coaching, a lot of hands on treating. I think that whole package is what we deliver, that I feel a lot of places don’t.
“It’s modern and it’s thinking outside of the box. It’s working out these solutions and not going at it if it’s not working like it’s your fault or it can’t be done. You know, we want to dig and find that solution.”
Kenny sees his clients – ‘people who believe in what we do’ – as significant supporters of his growth, alongside his family, and it led to the need to open Precision Health.
Rebranded to prevent confusion, it offers similar services to Move Physio, treating patients in the earlier stages of their recovery.
It provides specialist women’s health services, a chiropractor and also has a GP.
Ideally, patients would go to Precision Health for diagnosis and early treatment, before advancing to Move Physio for further rehabilitation.
Kenny said: “We ran out of space at Move Physio and I wanted to do some other things.
“We did really well very quickly. We’re in a good place at the moment and we’ve got loads more room to grow.
“Move Physio has got a very clear plan. Precision Health is this wild thing on the side, where anything can happen, but it will stay, obviously, within the medical side of things.”
He’s still looking to grow, however, and plans to open a couple more clinics in the same industry in the future.
Despite the obvious demands of owning multiple businesses, he still spends 12-15 hours-per-week working with patients.
He credits his leadership team, saying he can easily go on holiday without worrying, and enjoys the full-on nature of his life.
He added: “I love being busy.
“What’s the point of life if I’m just going to sit around when I could be doing something that might have an impact on either myself, my family, business, employees or patients?
“If somebody said, ‘Are you stressed?’ I’d be like, ‘No, I don’t feel like I’m stressed’. My blood pressure would probably say that I’m not stressed as well. But I do do a lot.”
For more information, visit www.movephysio.co.uk and www.precisionhealthtwickenham.co.uk.
Featured image courtesy of Maria-Cosmina Trofin, with thanks
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