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Hypermobility Doctor

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Online physical therapy, personal training and consultations with a Doctor of Physical Therapy specializing in hypermobility (HSD, hEDS), and the prevention and treatment of associated pain and dysfunction.

10/13/2025

Hypermobility disorders like EDS and HSD can lead to fear and dissociation from the body. Not feeling safe keeps our nervous system on high alert at all times, affecting normal bodily functions and worsening symptoms of POTS and MCAS.

An important part of hypermobility care is increasing our sense of safety and calming the nervous system.

📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:
➡️ physical therapy (FL and IL)🇺🇸
➡️ consultations (worldwide🌍)
➡️ personal training
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This post is offered for informational purposes only and does not constitute specific advice for any given individual. Always take your individual circumstances into account before implementing changes.

10/07/2025

This truth is a hard one for so many of us. It seems so tempting to just start doing whatever you’d like to be doing and keep doing, picking your forever exercise and hoping and expecting for things start well and end up even better.

But time after time, hypermobile individuals especially, we find that instead of helping us get into great shape the activity injures us instead.

I hope this post helps clarify why that is, and helps inspire you to prepare for the activity first.

If you’re already suffering from pain, I hope it inspires you to seek help to fix your weak links so that you can be active now and stay active for the rest of your life!

📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:
➡️ physical therapy (FL and IL)🇺🇸
➡️ consultations (worldwide🌍)
➡️ personal training
(worldwide 🌍)

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This post is offered for informational purposes only and does not constitute specific advice for any given individual. Always take your individual circumstances into account before implementing changes.

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10/01/2025

Muscle tension and pain is one of the most common problems my patients seek help with. Today’s sedentary and monotonous lifestyles make this problem even more prevalent than it used to be.

As with all problems, the first step towards a solution is understanding the problem. Simply reacting to it as if it’s a question of a malfunction in muscles, focusing on massages, pills, heating pads and so on, will not bring lasting results.

Listening to Mother Nature will. This means restoring the body to a more natural, balanced state and using it in accordance with the body’s need for alignment, muscle balance and movement.

Have you struggled with chronic muscle tension and pain?

# physicaltherapyforhypermobility

09/25/2025

If you’re hypermobile you know the difficulty of finding informative sources to help you learns about EDS/HSD, and worse yet, practitioners specializing in these conditions, or even somewhat informed about them.

These are some of my thoughts on the topic. What are yours?

📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:
➡️ physical therapy (FL and IL)🇺🇸
➡️ consultations (worldwide🌍)
➡️ personal training
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This post is offered for informational purposes only and does not constitute specific advice for any given individual. Always take your individual circumstances into account before implementing changes.

09/22/2025

One of the most common problems that tends to come with EDS/HSD is living somewhere on the POTS spectrum.

While salt is often, and often unnecessarily, in our culture, even without any physiological signs of harm, in POTS salt plays a stand out role. However, even non-hypermobile people have been shown to be able to improve exercise performance by taking some salt in order to improve hydration prior to exercise.

Have you been encouraged to use salt, and helped to use high-quality salt, or have you met warnings and resistance?

📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:
➡️ physical therapy (FL and IL)🇺🇸
➡️ consultations (worldwide🌍)
➡️ personal training
(worldwide 🌍)

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This post is offered for informational purposes only and does not constitute specific advice for any given individual. Always take your individual circumstances into account before implementing changes.

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09/18/2025

If your practitioner (MD, DPT, DC, DDS, nutritionist etc) doesn’t take / doesn’t know how to take your hypermobility disorder into account, you need to add this perspective to the treatment approach and plan yourself or find another practitioner who can.

As practitioners knowledgeable about hypermobility disorders can be hard to come by, this really highlights the need for hypermobile individuals to learn as much as possible about the unique nature of their bodies.

Don’t give in to the often negative messaging “out there”. Know that there is so much we can do, and continually need to do, to help ourselves feel better!

📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:
➡️ physical therapy (FL and IL)🇺🇸
➡️ consultations (worldwide🌍)
➡️ personal training
(worldwide 🌍)

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This post is offered for informational purposes only and does not constitute specific advice for any given individual. Always take your individual circumstances into account before implementing changes.

09/09/2025

Being susceptible to joint subluxations (the joint moving out of its correct position without completely coming apart) can be a literal pain. We can’t always prevent them, but there’s a lot we can do both in the moment and long-term to decrease the frequency.

Here are but some examples. Are you susceptible to subluxations (of dislocations?) What have you learned or been taught to do to prevent them?

📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:
➡️ physical therapy (FL and IL)🇺🇸
➡️ consultations (worldwide🌍)
➡️ personal training
(worldwide 🌍)

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This post is offered for informational purposes only and does not constitute specific advice for any given individual. Always take your individual circumstances into account before implementing changes.

09/04/2025

Is pain a bug in the system, or is it a feature of the healthy human body?

Have you thought of seeing pain as a message from the body about what,exactly, it wants you to change?

Go to the first link in my bio to read more and to learn how to live cooperatively with your body in order to hurt less!

📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:
➡️ physical therapy (FL and IL)🇺🇸
➡️ consultations (worldwide🌍)
➡️ personal training
(worldwide 🌍)

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This post is offered for informational purposes only and does not constitute specific advice for any given individual. Always take your individual circumstances into account before implementing changes.

09/02/2025

📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:
➡️ physical therapy (FL and IL)🇺🇸
➡️ consultations (worldwide🌍)
➡️ personal training
(worldwide 🌍)

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This post is offered for informational purposes only and does not constitute specific advice for any given individual. Always take your individual circumstances into account before implementing changes.

08/29/2025

What is your experience with SIBO?
What has been your most effective treatment strategy?

📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:
➡️ physical therapy (FL and IL)🇺🇸
➡️ consultations (worldwide🌍)
➡️ personal training
(worldwide 🌍)

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This post is offered for informational purposes only and does not constitute specific advice for any given individual. Always take your individual circumstances into account before implementing changes.

08/26/2025

Did you know that dysfunction in your internal organs can create muscle tightness or pain elsewhere in your body?

It is yet another example of the fact the we can only understand the body through a holistic perspective.

Do any of the symptoms above sound familiar to you?

📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:
➡️ physical therapy (FL and IL)🇺🇸
➡️ consultations (worldwide🌍)
➡️ personal training
(worldwide 🌍)

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This post is offered for informational purposes only and does not constitute specific advice for any given individual. Always take your individual circumstances into account before implementing changes.

08/22/2025

Chronic problems are usually a sign of a multi-system tangle. It makes sense that detangling them would be a bit complex and take time. But this does not mean we can’t improve at all.

The beautiful thing is that once we’ve overcome one obstacle, our trust in our ability to overcome more increases and life — even with the recurring struggles of a hypermobility disorder -- becomes easier and less daunting and scary.

These days there are also more and more resources, such as eg the podcast that offer helpful and actionable information.

Do you have experiences of overcoming obstacles that you can share in order to encourage others?

📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:
➡️ physical therapy (FL and IL)🇺🇸
➡️ consultations (worldwide🌍)
➡️ personal training
(worldwide 🌍)

Follow and share to make sure you don’t miss any posts and to help spread information!

This post is offered for informational purposes only and does not constitute specific advice for any given individual. Always take your individual circumstances into account before implementing changes.

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https://www.lilianholm.com/physical-therapy-for-hypermobility-disorders.html

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