Forge Injury & Performance - Manchester

STUDENT OPPORTUNITY 🚨

Forge Injury & Performance will be supporting Turf Games Manchester at Manchester Central on Saturday 10th October.

Our team, including Theo Morgan & Josh Marples, will be there supporting athletes throughout the event, alongside two students who are already joining us.

We’re potentially looking for 2 more Sport Rehabilitation / Physiotherapy students who would like to volunteer and gain experience at the event.

You’ll get exposure to:
🏋️ Functional fitness competition
💆 Sports massage & athlete recovery
🤝 Working alongside the Forge clinical team
📈 Experience in a large-scale sporting environment

Manchester Central | Saturday 10th October

Interested? DM FORGE Injury & Performance - Sports Rehab Manchester with your university, course and year of study.

Limited spaces available.

WHAT IS FORGE? 🧡

Forge Injury & Performance is more than somewhere you go when you’re injured.

We’re a team of Physiotherapists and Sports Rehabilitators based in Chadderton, Oldham, helping people get back to doing what they love.

Whether that’s returning to sport after an ACL reconstruction, getting back into the gym, overcoming a long-term injury or simply moving without pain — our goal is the same:

Assess the problem.
Build you back up.
Get you stronger.
Get you back.

At Forge, we combine:

🏋️ Gym-based rehabilitation
🩺 Physiotherapy & injury assessment
📊 Objective strength & movement testing
💪 Strength & conditioning
💆 Sports massage
🏃 Return-to-running & return-to-sport rehab

No one-size-fits-all rehab.

No stopping just because the pain has settled.

We want to bridge the gap between injury → rehab → performance.

📍 Chadderton, Oldham
🧡 Forge Injury & Performance

Get back to doing what you love.

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.