As of 13 August 2026, AI cannot create a return-to-training plan after an injury.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface gets you a draft, but you cannot verify it yourself. That is the catch.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the NHS injury and symptom guidance relevant to your problem and contact NHS 111 for urgent or worrying symptoms before using any training plan.
   2. Gather the diagnosis or assessment you have already received, written restrictions, symptoms, aggravating movements, current daily activity and usual training.
   3. Paste those details into the prompt, leaving unknown facts marked as unknown rather than guessing them.
   4. Ask the chatbot to produce the staged outline and a list of questions for a GP or physiotherapist.
   5. Compare every proposed activity and restriction with the advice you were given by your clinician, removing anything that conflicts.
   6. Send the outline and the questions to your GP or physiotherapist and only use a progression they confirm is appropriate.
   7. Record symptoms during and after each cleared session, then take worsening symptoms or repeated setbacks back to the clinician instead of asking the chatbot to decide.

   Prompt

   Help me organise a cautious return-to-training discussion for an injury, not diagnose me or replace a GP or physiotherapist. Use only the information below and state clearly what is unknown. If my symptoms are urgent or worrying, tell me to stop and contact NHS 111 rather than proposing training. Do not recommend exercises that conflict with advice from a clinician. Create a conservative staged outline with: activities to avoid, low-risk options only if already cleared, a simple way to monitor symptoms during and after training, conditions for progressing, conditions for reducing or stopping, and questions to take to a GP or physiotherapist. Do not give a diagnosis, predict recovery time, or claim that the plan is safe. Injury or diagnosis already given by a clinician: [insert]. Date and cause of injury: [insert]. Current symptoms: [insert]. Movements or activities that worsen symptoms: [insert]. Advice or restrictions already given: [insert]. Training goal and usual activities: [insert]. Available equipment: [insert].

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.