Dr. Srikanth Nithyanandam - Integrative Family & Sports Medicine

Dr. Srikanth Nithyanandam - Integrative Family & Sports Medicine Dr. Srikanth, Integrative Family & Sports Medicine Doctor. Here to guide your healing journey with expert advice beyond the clinic. Let's thrive together.

Welcome to the official page of Dr. Srikanth Nithyanandam (Dr. Sri). As a physician board certified in Family Medicine, Sports
Medicine, and Integrative Medicine, my mission is to offer
"Whole-Health" navigation — care that treats the whole person,
not just the symptom in front of me — and to help patients
better understand and advocate for their own healthcare. THE VISION: OPENING AUGUST 2026


I'm proud to announce the founding of Lexington Integrative
Sports Medicine — an independent, membership-based clinic
opening August 1st, 2026. After years of serving the Lexington
and Georgetown communities through UK HealthCare and as team
physician for Georgetown College Athletics, I'm building a
practice designed around unhurried time, deep listening, and
whole-person healing — the kind of care I've always believed in
and now have the chance to build from the ground up. THE PHILOSOPHY: MOVE, HEAL, LIVE
True healing — especially from sports injuries and chronic
conditions — takes more than a brief appointment. My practice
integrates conventional precision with evidence-based
complementary strategies, including Medical Acupuncture, to
treat the whole tree, not just the broken branch. YOUR RESOURCE FOR HEALING
This page is an extension of my practice — a bridge between
clinic visits. Here, I share:
- Integrative strategies for chronic condition management
- Sports medicine insights to optimize performance and recovery
- Evidence-based tips to help you navigate your own healing
journey at home
- Healthcare advocacy education, so you can better navigate and
understand the system on your own behalf

My goal is to empower you not just to recover, but to thrive. Your health is your greatest asset, and I'm honored to be your
partner in achieving lasting wellness.

Here’s something that doesn’t get talked about enough: not having insurance and having a medical problem is its own spec...
08/18/2026

Here’s something that doesn’t get talked about enough: not having insurance and having a medical problem is its own special kind of trap.

Say you get hurt. No insurance. An outpatient visit could genuinely help — except good luck getting seen without coverage in the first place. And even on the rare occasion someone will see you, there’s often still a price tag steep enough to make you flinch. So what happens? Most people end up in the ER, which means a bill that even someone doing just fine financially would struggle to absorb. That’s the system working as designed, not a glitch in it.

This is a big part of why I built my clinic the way I did. We’re direct cash-pay — no insurance company standing between you and your care. And I’ve made it a priority to keep access genuinely within reach — not just for people who are uninsured, but for anyone who’s tired of a system deciding what their care is worth. I know what it costs someone to be shut out of basic care entirely — the kind of situation where you’re looking at $500+ just to be seen. Closing that gap is exactly what I care about.

This is a story I hear on repeat. Someone shows up with nowhere else to turn, uninsured, bracing for a fight just to be seen — and we’re able to help them anyway. Every single time, it hits the same way. It’s one of the best parts of this job.

Honestly, my bank account was probably happier under the old model. But I sleep better now. Knowing the care I’m giving isn’t being filtered through what an insurance company decided it was worth — that’s worth more to me than the comfort was.

If this resonates, do me a favor and share it with someone who believes in whole-person care and a model that doesn’t have a middleman deciding what your health is worth.

08/17/2026

During a meet-and-greet appointment, one of our visitors asked if my clinic was even for him since he doesn't play organized sports. My answer, every time: you're an athlete whether the field is a job site, your neighborhood sidewalk, or a stadium. The biology doesn't care what you call it.

This is the whole reason Lexington Integrative Sports Medicine exists — the Whole Tree approach means movement, nutrition, and lifestyle come first, before we ever reach for a prescription pad.

LISM is a cash-pay direct care practice, which means I can focus on you — not an insurance checklist or rules set by a company that isn't in the room for your care. Depending on the service, your current insurance might still be the cheaper option. But for some people — especially those with a high deductible — LISM can actually work out to be the more affordable choice. And sometimes what insurance doesn't pay for is simply time. What I focus on is value, not a checklist.

If a practice like this sounds like what you've been looking for, come see for yourself. If you're interested in a meet and greet appointment without having to make a decision right away, DM me or text us directly at our clinic number, 859-374-3529, or email us at [email protected].

At the end of the day, relationship matters — and you deserve a primary care doctor you can trust.

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08/16/2026

Sports physicals are officially open at LISM! 🏃‍♂️

Whether it's for school, a new season, or just peace of mind before your athlete gets back on the field, your physical is performed directly by a board-certified Primary Care Sports Medicine physician.

Here's what that looks like, pricing-wise:

💵 $75 — Base Sports Physical Evaluation
➕ $40 — EKG Add-on, if clinically indicated
➕ $25 — Concussion Baseline Add-on, if clinically indicated

Straightforward, transparent, and built around what your athlete actually needs — not a one-size-fits-all form.

📲 Booking is simple: click the HIPAA-compliant form, let us know your day and time preferences, and we'll get your appointment scheduled right away.

Here is the link for the appointment form: https://form.jotform.com/262197711301148

Just come to the clinic, get seen, and your paperwork is completed during the visit — no extra steps beforehand.

08/14/2026

Two weeks ago, I was deep in the unglamorous side of starting a practice — comparing supply prices, negotiating with vendors, and trying to figure out what I actually needed versus what I was told I needed. It was stressful in a way that's hard to explain unless you've done it yourself.

I started with Direct Primary Care at LISM just one week ago. As of today, every single service is open and ready: acute injury evaluations, comprehensive integrative medicine consultations, medical acupuncture (following consultation), and sports physicals with on-site EKG capability.

I'm calling this my first real win as a practice owner. Not because the hard part is over — it's not — but because it's proof that the "Whole Tree" approach I believe in is now something I can actually offer, start to finish, to real patients.

None of this happens solo. I'm endlessly grateful for my nurse, Pam, who's been steady through all of it, and for the support of my family who've been behind me every step of the way.

One honest note: LISM is cash-pay, so depending on the service, your current insurance might still be the cheaper option — acupuncture, hydrodissection, and orthobiologics, for example, are often poorly covered or not covered at all. And sometimes what insurance doesn't pay for is simply time. What I focus on is value, not a checklist.

More wins ahead. Thank you for being part of this one.

Follow along with everything happening at the clinic → Lexington Integrative Sports Medicine Clinic

One of the most common things I ask during meet and greet appointments is some version of: “Why are you interested in jo...
08/13/2026

One of the most common things I ask during meet and greet appointments is some version of:

“Why are you interested in joining this practice?”

And almost every time, the answer comes back to the same thing: “My care feels fragmented.” They see one doctor who says “that’s not really my department, go see a specialist.” They see a specialist who fixes the one thing they were sent in for, but doesn’t have the full picture of what else is going on. Everyone’s treating a piece.

Nobody’s looking at the whole tree.

Every time I hear it, it confirms exactly why I built LISM the way I did. I spent years stacking credentials — Family Medicine, Sports Medicine, Integrative Medicine — because I wanted to be the kind of primary care doctor who could actually help patients connect the dots, instead of saying “that’s not my department.”

Here’s the honest part: practicing that way, inside a short, rushed visit model, for six years… it was hard. Not because the medicine was hard. Because truly listening is hard to do in 15 minutes. It’s important to follow evidence-based guidelines — always will be. But guidelines aren’t the whole job. The art of medicine is knowing your patient well enough to understand which modalities make sense for them, and being honest about the risks and tradeoffs of each one.

That’s the whole reason LISM exists. It’s a whole-health model, built two ways:
🌳 Direct Primary Care membership — an ongoing relationship where I’m your primary care doctor, not a rotating cast of providers

🌳 Pay-as-you-go consultations — including comprehensive integrative/sports medicine evaluations, which can also double as a second opinion when you just need someone to look at the whole picture

LISM is cash-pay, so depending on the service, your current insurance might still be the cheaper option — acupuncture, hydrodissection, and orthobiologics, for example, are often poorly covered or not covered at all. And sometimes what insurance doesn’t pay for is simply time. What I focus on is value, not a checklist.

If you’re interested in a meet and greet appointment without having to make a decision right away, DM me or text us directly at our clinic number, 859-374-3529, or email us at [email protected]. For more clinic updates follow our Lexington Integrative Sports Medicine Clinic page

"Plantar Fasciitis" is kind of a misnomer — and I tell patients this more often than you'd think.That "-itis" suffix imp...
08/12/2026

"Plantar Fasciitis" is kind of a misnomer — and I tell patients this more often than you'd think.

That "-itis" suffix implies acute inflammation. If that were the whole story, ice and rest should fix it. But for a lot of people walking into my clinic with that diagnosis already stamped on their chart, what's actually going on is Plantar Fasciopathy — a chronic, degenerative change in the tissue itself, not just an angry, inflamed one.

Why does the distinction matter? Because it completely changes the treatment plan. Rest doesn't rebuild degraded tissue. What does is loading it — strategically and progressively — to rebuild resilience in the fascia and the entire kinetic chain that supports it. Rest might calm things down temporarily, but it doesn't teach the tissue to tolerate stress again. Only reloading it does.

This is a big part of why I approach MSK pain the way I do — treating the whole system, not just slapping a label on a symptom and sending you off with a "just ice it and stay off it."

If you've been dealing with stubborn heel or foot pain and want my home rehab guide, comment "REHAB" below and I'll send it your way. And if you want to talk through what's going on with your own foot pain, my clinic is always a call away. Lexington Integrative Sports Medicine is the cash-pay clinic I started, built around a whole-health approach to care.

Follow our Lexington Integrative Sports Medicine Clinic page for more clinic updates.

08/11/2026

Another trip to Georgetown today. Third time now, actually — funny how that works. You leave a place, and somehow you keep finding your way back to it.

This visit was about connecting with some of the physical therapists in town who I’ve worked alongside for years — including the teams at Kort Physical Therapy and Scott County Physical Therapy.

Together, I think we’ve helped a lot of patients in this community get back to doing the things they actually want to do — and that kind of collaborative care matters more than people realize.

I stepped away from my prior role, and part of why I keep coming back to Georgetown is to update the people I’ve worked with on how my direct primary care model works now, and how we can continue working alongside each other. Same expertise, same commitment to patients — just a different care model. It’s a more whole-health approach, cash-based, without the insurance checklist standing between me and the patient in front of me.

The more I talk about this with other providers, the more they get it. Insurance red tape doesn’t just slow things down — it actively makes it harder to do right by the patient. Simple example: someone sits across from me and asks, “What will this cost?” And with insurance, I often can’t tell them. There’s a chance it’s covered. There’s also a chance they find out later they owe hundreds of dollars they never saw coming. That’s not a knock on any one provider or payer — it’s just the system a lot of us are working inside of, and it’s part of why I built LISM the way I did.

I haven’t yet connected with physical therapists here in Lexington the way I have in Georgetown — hoping to start building those relationships soon too.

LISM is cash-pay, so depending on the service, your current insurance might still be the cheaper option — acupuncture, hydrodissection, and orthobiologics, for example, are often poorly covered or not covered at all. And sometimes what insurance doesn’t pay for is simply time.

What I focus on is value, not a checklist.
If you want to see what this looks like in practice, come find us over on the LISM page Lexington Integrative Sports Medicine Clinic

One week into building this practice, and I noticed something I didn't love about myself.My mind has been somewhere else...
08/10/2026

One week into building this practice, and I noticed something I didn't love about myself.

My mind has been somewhere else. Thinking about supplies, about the clinic, about a hundred small things at once. And somewhere in there, I started losing patience faster than usual.

I read something today that stuck with me. It's a reflection attributed to Naval Ravikant, about looking back years from now and asking: knowing what you know, would you do it differently? His answer, more or less — probably not. He'd do the same thing. He just wouldn't have been so stressed about it.

That landed. Because the stress doesn't change the outcome. It just changes how I experience getting there.

So I'd rather do this happily than do it anxious. Years from now, I want to say I enjoyed the journey — not that I survived it.

Anyone else relate to this? Building something new — a business, a family, a season of life — and catching yourself somewhere you didn't mean to drift?

If you are interested in knowing about my new clinic Lexington Integrative Sports Medicine, make sure to follow my page Lexington Integrative Sports Medicine Clinic

Spent this afternoon out of the office and in Georgetown, Kentucky — visiting fitness centers and physical therapy clini...
08/08/2026

Spent this afternoon out of the office and in Georgetown, Kentucky — visiting fitness centers and physical therapy clinics, talking with the people who do the unglamorous, unsung work of keeping this community healthy.

Here's something I've believed since long before I opened my own practice: exercise is one of the most powerful tools we have to improve someone's quality of life. Not a supplement. Not always a procedure. Movement.

I've never wanted to practice medicine in a silo. Physical therapists, personal trainers, nutritionists, counselors — in my mind, they're not adjacent to healthcare. They ARE healthcare. Sometimes the missing piece in someone's health isn't a new diagnosis or a new prescription — it's one good session with the right person who isn't me.

Talking with trainers and PTs today who share that same mission was honestly energizing. It reminded me why I left the traditional model in the first place. I wish our broader healthcare system was built this way — doctors, PTs, trainers, and nutritionists actually collaborating on one plan for one patient, instead of everyone working in their own lane.

That's the vision I keep coming back to. Maybe that's the whole point of days like today.

Pictured here with the wonderful therapists I met today at Hyphen Gym — exactly the kind of partnership I’m talking about.

If you want to see what building toward that vision looks like in practice, come find us on the Lexington Integrative Sports Medicine Clinic page.

08/06/2026

"Wait, that's all it costs?"

That's the reaction I get almost every time I sit down with patients for a meet and greet.

They ask about lab costs, expecting hundreds of dollars — and I tell them it should cost significantly less at member rates. They ask about procedures, and I tell them most are covered under the membership. For specialized procedures, members get member rates — for example, an ultrasound-guided cortisone injection is $25. Compare that to the hundreds of dollars many patients have paid out of pocket for the same procedure elsewhere.

This is what happens when you remove the middlemen and build a direct relationship between doctor and patient. No surprise bills. No guessing games. Just transparent, honest care.

This is what Direct Primary Care is. I focus on value, not someone else's checklist.

And if you're active — an athlete, a weekend warrior, someone who just wants to keep moving — you're getting a primary care doctor who is board-certified in Family Medicine, Sports Medicine, and Integrative Medicine, with Helms Medical Institute Medical Acupuncture certification and a background in exercise physiology, all included in your membership.

LISM is cash-pay, so depending on the service, your current insurance might still be the cheaper option — acupuncture, hydrodissection, and orthobiologics, for example, are often poorly covered or not covered at all. And sometimes what insurance doesn't pay for is simply time. What I focus on is value, not a checklist.

Everything's laid out on our website — pricing, what's covered, no fine print — because I believe in transparency. Link in bio.

📍 If you're interested in a meet and greet appointment without having to make a decision right away, DM me or text us directly at our clinic number, 859-374-3529, or email us at [email protected].

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