Post-surgical rehab
ACL, meniscus, rotator cuff, joint replacements, spinal fixation. Protocol-driven, surgeon-coordinated, progressed by test results — not by the calendar alone.
Works with 11 referring surgeons
Sports and orthopaedic physiotherapist — MPT, eleven years, 6,000+ patients from post-surgical knees to first-time marathoners. Exercise-first, machines-second, and a written plan with dates on it from day one. If I think you need a surgeon instead, I'll say so at the assessment.
ACL, meniscus, rotator cuff, joint replacements, spinal fixation. Protocol-driven, surgeon-coordinated, progressed by test results — not by the calendar alone.
Works with 11 referring surgeons
Runners, footballers, gym injuries and the weekend-cricket hamstring. Return-to-sport testing before clearance — because "it feels fine" re-tears.
340+ athletes returned to sport
Disc bulges, sciatica, desk-job stiffness. Mostly exercise and load management; imaging findings explained honestly — most "slipped discs" don't need panic.
80% resolve without injections
Frozen shoulder, tennis elbow, plantar fasciitis, arthritis. The slow conditions — where honest timelines matter more than quick-fix machines.
Written timeline at session one
Post-stroke mobility, Parkinson's gait work, balance retraining for older adults — at the clinic or at home, with family trained as co-therapists.
Home programmes, family-taught
Strength and balance programmes for the 65+ — the single highest-return physiotherapy there is. Group sessions twice a week at the clinic.
0 falls among programme regulars, 2 yrs
Movement testing, strength measures, history, imaging review. You leave knowing the diagnosis, the plan and the expected number of sessions.
Milestones with dates: range by week 3, strength by week 8, running by week 12. You always know what "on track" means.
Hands-on work in clinic; a 20-minute daily programme on your phone. The homework is the treatment — sessions are course corrections.
Objective re-testing against your baseline. When the numbers clear, you're discharged — with a maintenance plan, not a dependency.
What I don't do: indefinite "maintenance" sessions, machine-only treatments, or ten-session packages sold before I've examined you. Average discharge here is 9.2 sessions; some knees take two; ACLs take six months. You'll know which you are on day one.
Shared with written consent, names changed. Every claim below sits in a chart like the one at the top of this page.
ACL reconstruction · footballer, 24
Post-op day 3 to return-to-play testing: quad symmetry from 41% to 94%, hop tests passed at week 22, cleared at 26 weeks — two weeks later than he wanted, because week-24 numbers weren't there. He argued; the chart won. Eighteen months on, no re-injury, still playing weekly league.
Chronic low back pain · accountant, 47
Arrived with three MRI reports, a lumbar belt and a fear of bending. We spent the first session reading his scans together — degenerative changes normal for his age, nothing dangerous. Then twelve weeks of graded deadlifting, starting with a broomstick. He now lifts 60 kg and carries his daughter upstairs. The belt is in a drawer.
Post-stroke · retired teacher, 68
Right-side weakness after a stroke; her daughters wanted daily home visits forever. Instead I trained them as co-therapists: two visits a week from me, daily sessions run by family with video check-ins. Ten months later she walks 2 km every morning, holding a stick she mostly doesn't need. The daughters now spot gait changes before I do.
Photograph — in the rehab gym, mid-session, not a white-coat portrait
A torn ligament ended my own district-level football at nineteen — and the rehab was so badly done, so vague and machine-heavy, that I limped for two extra years out of pure mismanagement. I became a physiotherapist to be the person I needed in that clinic: someone with a plan, a timeline and the honesty to say what they don't know.
MPT in sports physiotherapy, five years in a corporate hospital's ortho ward, three years with a professional football academy, and since 2020 my own clinic in Bandra. The academy years shaped me most: athletes demand numbers, and every patient deserves the same rigour.
"Pain is data, not a verdict. My job is to teach your body — and you — to read it correctly."
Experience
Rehab clinic, Bandra West, Mumbai
2 therapists + rehab gym · 11 referring surgeons · falls-prevention group programme.
Professional football academy, Mumbai
U-14 to senior squads · return-to-play protocols · 340+ athletes across three seasons.
Corporate hospital, Mumbai
Post-surgical rehab ward · 40 patients a week · where the 9.2-session discipline was learned.
Surgeons & patients say
Referring surgeon
"I send Kunal my ACLs because he doesn't clear them early to please them. His week-by-week reports are better documentation than most hospital departments produce."
Arthroscopy surgeon, MumbaiReferring since 2019Patient · back pain
"Three clinics gave me heat packs and ultrasound for a year. Kunal gave me a barbell and a timeline. I was angry at session one, sceptical at week four, and pain-free by week ten. I still do the homework."
Rajesh, 47 · discharged 202512 sessions, documentedAssessment ₹1,200 (60 min) · sessions ₹900 · home visits ₹1,500 within Bandra–Andheri. If physiotherapy isn't what you need, the assessment fee buys you that answer and the right referral.