Forge Injury & Performance - Manchester

6 WEEKS POST-SEVERE ANKLE SPRAIN ➡️ CLEARED TO RUN 🏃‍♂️⚽️

Been great working with Liam through his rehab after a nasty medial + lateral sprain of his left ankle.

After being told he had “glass ankles” following repeated ankle problems playing football, Liam wanted more than just another few weeks of rest — he wanted to understand why it kept happening and build his ankle back properly.

And he’s grafted. 👏

Over the last 6 weeks, Liam has completed 3 rehab sessions per week, focusing on:

⚡️ Ankle strength & capacity
⚡️ Mobility
⚡️ Balance & proprioception
⚡️ Dynamic stability
⚡️ Plyometrics & force acceptance
⚡️ Confidence under sporting loads

He’s now successfully cleared for running and progressive return to sporting activity. ✅

Next step ➡️ a structured return-to-play progression before getting him back into full-contact football.

The goal isn’t just getting rid of pain.

It’s building an ankle that can handle football again — and reducing the risk of the same problem happening again. 💪⚽️

Oldham

September coming to a close ✅

What a month it’s been down at Forge and this past week has been one of our busiest yet 👏

A few highlights 🎯

📈 Josh & Becky are both starting to fill their calendars, with the team hitting a new PB of 50 sessions in one week!

🎓 Welcoming our first official student placement, Hannah Felisa, to the Forge team.

💪 Our PT & Rehab clients continuing to smash their recovery, strength and fitness goals week after week.

We’re continuing to build Forge with one goal — to provide the best injury rehab and performance service we possibly can in Manchester.

Massive thank you to everyone who continues to support us, recommend us and trust us with their rehab ❤️

Plenty more to come as we head into the final few months of 2026 🎄📈

Manchester Rehabilitation

🥊 FORGE x OLDHAM FIGHT ACADEMY — FIRST POP-UP 📈

Great to get down to Oldham Fight Academy for our first injury & recovery drop-in! ❤️‍🩹

We worked with a range of fighters dealing with different injuries, niggles and recovery needs — all while some serious training and sparring was going on in the background 👊

Some big fights coming up too…

🤼‍♂️ “THE GREAT WHITE”🦈 & R K ✞ preparing to compete on Cage Warriors Academy.

🥊 More OFA fighters getting ready for the Oldham Fight Academy event in October.

Looking forward to supporting the lads through their camps, keeping them healthy and helping them perform when it matters.

This is what the Forge x OFA partnership is about — keeping fighters training, progressing and ready to compete. ❤️‍🩹🥊

See you at the next drop-in 👊

4 YEARS OF SHOULDER PAIN → BACK TRAINING 💪⭐️

When Jonathan first came to Forge, he’d struggled with shoulder pain for around 4 years.

It was affecting his physical warehouse job and had stopped him training upper body. Alongside this, bilateral elbow pain made most upper-body movements uncomfortable.

Instead of simply treating the painful areas, we took a progressive rehab + strength approach — 2 coached sessions per week alongside individual programming through Everfit.

The progress 📊

Shoulder Flexion
36.2N → 85.9N (+137%)

Shoulder Abduction
44.0N → 79.6N (+81%)

Abduction symmetry: ~70% → essentially equal between sides.

But the numbers aren’t the biggest wins.

My biggest wins as his rehabber & coach 👇

1️⃣ Proving to Jonathan that he CAN train — we just needed to find the right movements and progressively build his capacity.

2️⃣ Giving him the confidence to train upper body independently again after 4 years away.

3️⃣ Huge improvements in his strength, movement quality, physique and overall upper-body capacity.

4️⃣ Going from significant strength deficits to hitting PBs across his testing and gym lifts.

5️⃣ Most importantly — now reporting little to no shoulder or elbow pain while consistently training again.

Next step ➡️ higher-speed loading, upper-body plyometrics and continuing towards unrestricted training.

Rehab isn’t just about getting out of pain. It’s about rebuilding the strength, capacity and confidence to do what you love. ⚒️

Assess. Rebuild. Perform.

Running a sports injury business at 23 isn’t easy.

I absolutely love what I do, but building Forge while treating clients, managing a team and trying to grow a business takes a lot of time and energy.

These are the things that keep me grounded and give me the energy to keep pushing towards the dream:

1️⃣ Spending time with family & friends — remembering there’s a life outside of work.

2️⃣ Making time to just be Theo — not always the clinician or business owner.

3️⃣ Seeing clients progress — whether that’s returning from an injury, getting stronger or simply getting back to doing what they love. This will always be one of the best parts of the job.

4️⃣ Training & chasing my own fitness goals — practising what I preach and making my own health a priority.

5️⃣ Accepting that I don’t need to be perfect 100% of the time — meals out, nights out, holidays and rest days are part of life too.

Still learning, still building and definitely still making mistakes along the way.

Thank you to everyone who continues to support me and Forge. 🧡

We keep pushing, keep improving and keep helping people get back to doing what they love. 💪

Oldham Manchester

413 miles doesn’t start on Day 1.
It starts months before The Azaylia Foundation 🧡

Great catching up with Joe Hughes Coaching 🌍📈 and talking through the 16 weeks of preparation that went into getting his body ready for an incredible 413-mile charity challenge.

When you’re asking your body to cover that kind of distance, preparation is everything.

Building strength, managing training load, staying on top of recovery and dealing with the inevitable aches and niggles along the way.

At Forge, we’ve been proud to play a small part in supporting Joe throughout his preparation with sports massage, recovery and injury management.

All for an incredible cause, raising awareness and support for childhood cancer. 🧡

16 weeks of work.
413 miles ahead.
One massive challenge.

Go smash it Joe 👏

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