
About
Alexander Khang. Founder.
ISRM BTEC Level 5 Diploma. One-to-one sessions only. Kings Cross since 2024.
Achilles is a one-practitioner clinic. Every session is with Alexander Khang. There are no associates, no handoffs, and no junior therapists. Continuity is part of how the work functions because you do not re-explain your history at every visit.
The clinic was built on a single observation: most people with chronic pain and soft tissue restrictions have been told what their problem is, but not why it keeps coming back. The answer is almost always load; how much you're putting through a structure relative to what it can currently tolerate.
The Achilles Method Assessment comes first. Every session begins with a movement screen because treating without understanding the mechanism produces short-term relief and long-term repetition. Expert sports massage therapy and soft tissue therapy are only as good as the assessment that precedes them.
Alexander holds a Level 3 Specialist Personal Training Diploma and ISRM BTEC Level 5 Professional Diploma in Soft Tissue Therapy, the highest standalone qualification in the field in the UK, and is completing an Associate's degree in Physiotherapy at Regent's University London.
Qualifications
- ·ISRM BTEC Level 5 Diploma in Soft Tissue Therapy
- ·Associate's in Physiotherapy in Regent's University London
- ·907 clinical sessions since 2024
The clinicS
Two locations: Kings Cross and Hampstead.
- ·260 Pentonville Road, Kings Cross, London N1 9JY
- ·3 minutes from Kings Cross St Pancras
- ·40 Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead, London NW3 1NH
- ·6 minutes from Hampstead station
- ·One-to-one sessions only
Opening times
- ·Monday: 9:00 am – 7:00 pm
- ·Tuesday: 9:00 am – 7:00 pm
- ·Wednesday: 9:00 am – 7:00 pm
- ·Thursday: 9:00 am – 7:00 pm
- ·Friday: 9:00 am – 7:00 pm
- ·Saturday: 9:00 am – 7:00 pm
- ·Sunday: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
The practitioner
Built from the work, not the credentials.
Alexander came to soft tissue therapy through sport and repeated injury, the kind that gets managed rather than fixed. That frustration became the clinical philosophy at Achilles: understand the mechanism first, then treat it properly.
Every client is assessed, not assumed. Every session is documented. Every recommendation is based on load tolerance, not guesswork. That is what Level 5 clinical training looks like in practice.

Alexander Khang
ISRM BTEC Level 5 — Founder

One practitioner. One method. No handoffs.
Find your root causes.