28/11/2025
✨ Importance of Strength & Mobility Training for Hypermobility & Connective Tissue Disorders ✨
If you live with hypermobility or a connective tissue disorder (like hEDS/HSD), you’ve probably been told to “be careful” with exercise. And yes—being mindful matters. However properly guided strength and mobility training isn’t just safe… it’s one of the most powerful tools you have. 💪✨
Here’s why ⤵️
🦴 1. Improved Joint Stability
When ligaments and connective tissues are more lax, your muscles become your primary stabilizers.
Targeted strength training helps build the support your joints need to stay aligned, reduce excessive movement, and feel more secure during daily activities.
🧠 2. Better Proprioception (Body Awareness)
Hypermobility can make it harder for your body to sense where your joints are in space.
Controlled mobility work, slow movement patterns, and functional strength exercises help “retrain” your neuromuscular system—leading to better coordination, balance, and confidence.
🔄 3. Reduced Pain & Injury Risk
Stronger muscles + improved stability = fewer micro-injuries and flare-ups.
Training doesn’t have to be heavy or high-impact to be effective. Consistency with low-load, well-designed progressions is often the most protective approach.
⚡ 4. Increased Daily Function & Energy
Building strength helps reduce fatigue during normal tasks—because your body doesn’t have to work overtime to keep everything in place. Mobility work supports smoother, more efficient movement patterns.
🤸 5. Safer, More Controlled Mobility
Mobility training for hypermobile bodies is NOT about stretching further—it’s about controlling the range you already have.
Active mobility builds joint integrity and teaches your body how to move with strength, not just flexibility.
💬 Bottom line
Strength and mobility training are essential for people with hypermobility—not optional.
It’s about creating stability, confidence, and resilience so you can move through life with less pain and more freedom.
If you’re hypermobile, and would like my help to find the right approach that respects your unique physiology and emphasizes quality over quantity, please get in touch:
https://www.functionaltherapypt.co.uk/
