ProFlex Therapy

Strong, reactive shoulders = fewer setbacks and a faster return to contact. Here’s how we built one back.

Benji’s rugby injury sidelined him. He needed a shoulder strong enough to take hits and reactive enough to handle the chaos of the pitch.

Standard rehab wasn’t going to cut it.

If you’re still doing endless sets of basic internal/external rotations with a light band, you’re missing massive pieces of the puzzle. You need load, velocity, and reactivity.

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Back of knee pain is never just the back of the knee.

Hamstrings, calves, groins, hips - this is a chain problem, not a location problem. If your rehab only chases the pain site, you’re treating a symptom and ignoring the cause.

This is a snippet of what we ran with Miguel over 4 sessions. Copenhagens to load the adductors and hips. Calf testing, because the calf’s attachment into the posterior chain makes it a silent driver in these presentations - Miguel’s numbers climbed fast here toward the end. Curtsy lunge to step-up to integrate the whole chain under real movement. Clam shells pushed to failure, because strength only means something near the edge. Plyometrics to finish, tracked with data so improvement isn’t a guess.

Root cause first. Numbers to prove it. That’s the standard.

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This is what real rehab looks like. 🦵⚡

Not stretching and hoping. Not “take it easy.” We’re loading the hip, testing power output, and pushing clients back to running — safely, and fast.

This is the Proflex standard: root cause, KPI-driven, built to get you moving again.

Stuck in a pain cycle that “rest” hasn’t fixed? Let’s find out why.

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WEEK IN THE CLINIC 🔷

Calf strains. Shoulders that won’t stay still. Groins that won’t fire. Ankles rebuilding from avulsion fractures.

This week’s floor: a basketballer in end-stage rehab hitting drop jumps into rotational jumps. A runner increasing load and intensity through running mechanics drills. A track athlete easing back into sprinting with early-stage plyos. Backward running and threshold work building toward full return-to-run. A runner and a footballer both battling groin pain, using rotational hamstring bridges and single-leg wall sits to bring adductor magnus properly online.

Different injuries. Same approach — root cause first, load second, sport-specific last.

📍 Salford, Manchester
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Achilles rehab isn’t about resting it and hoping.

It’s about rebuilding the chain that’s supposed to protect it in the first place.

Most people skip straight to calf raises. We don’t.

Before we load the Achilles, we make sure:
→ The foot and ankle can actually absorb load
→ The big toe is active and doing its job
→ The calf can lower under control, not just lift

Then — and only then — we start adding plyometrics. Because an Achilles that can’t handle impact in the clinic definitely can’t handle it on the pitch.

Here’s the exact progression we use 👇

1. Big toe roller bridge (banded) — toe drives down, pelvis works
2. Big toe bridge variation — isolating the toe drive
3. Wedged calf raise — forces the big toe to fire
4. Slouch calf raise — builds soleus capacity to offload the Achilles
5. Plyometrics — introduced early, in a safe and tolerable range

Rehab done properly isn’t slower. It’s just done in the right order.

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📍 Salford, Manches