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Hypermobility Doctor, Evanston, IL (2025)

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!

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09/02/2025

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08/29/2025

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

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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?

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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?

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08/18/2025

If you’re reading this, you’re probably someone with symptomatic hypermobility. (I am, too.) Being hypermobile often means that we continually deal with some symptom or another. But it’s still helpful to know that hypermobility *in and of itself* doesn’t cause pain, it only predisposes.

Put another way, you don’t hurt due to “hypermobility”. There is always a more direct and precise reason for the pain, and this is what we can work on to eliminate and prevent, or at least decrease, pain and other issues such as frequent subluxations.

While pain can make us both upset, sad, scared and angry, it is still better to view it as objectively as we can, as a signaling function, and when we hurt, move as quickly as we can to analyzing and correcting the source of the pain.

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08/09/2025

MCAS is a strange beast, and not completely understood. Maintaining balance -homeostasis- in the body can help decreas MCAS activity. Improved gut health is one such example. A healthy gut microbiome can modulate immune responses and reduce inflammation. Dysbiosis (imbalanced gut bacteria) may exacerbate MCAS by increasing gut permeability (“leaky gut”) and triggering mast cell activation.

Personally I’ve seen great results from decreasing allergic / hypersensitivity reactions through a modality called AAT (advanced allergy therapeutics) and seeking balance and calm in my life.

What has worked for you?

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08/04/2025

The medical system works by assigning diagnostic labels to our symptoms (while rarely asking why they are arising in the first place) and the applying a (usually pharmaceutical) intervention that matches the label. Don’t make the mistake of believing that this health insurance-prompted system describes the actual relationships in your unique body.

There is a lot of overlap even between the most common comorbidities commonly occurring in hypermobility syndromes. Is your nausea arising from POTS, SIBO, gastroparesis or MCAS — or from a unique mixture several phenomena?

Keeping the whole body in mind can help us think more broadly and perhaps direct our interventions more appropriately.

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07/26/2025

A simple sign that can alert you to the fact that you may be burning your candle at both ends and straining your l, perhaps unnecessarily, can be dilated pupils in the absence of darkness or dim lighting.

Did you check your pupils? Are they dilated?

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07/22/2025

You often hear it said that “the best posture is the next posture” but whoever came up with that doesn’t understand that for many hypermobile people changing postures happens due to ongoing discomfort.

For us, weak or collapsed postural patterns hurt an many increase hypermobility in certain joints, happen due to poor stability and proprioception and contributes to discomfort, pain, joint subluxations and dislocations and poor tolerance of daily life.

Improving postural alignment happens not by trying harder or tensing up, but by understanding how we humans naturally hold ourselves up against gravity and learning to once again do that, little by little.

This usually requires some help as our brains only understand the familiar, not the natural, but it is doable and so worth it.

What is your experience with posture, whether your current one hurts and fatigues you, or you’ve been able to correct 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
(worldwide 🌍)

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07/22/2025

You often hear it said that “the best posture is the next posture” but whoever came up with that doesn’t understand that for many hypermobile people changing postures happens due to ongoing discomfort.

For us, weak or collapsed postural patterns hurt an many increase hypermobility in certain joints, happen due to poor stability and proprioception and contributes to discomfort, pain, joint subluxations and dislocations and poor tolerance of daily life.

Improving postural alignment happens not by trying harder or tensing up, but by understanding how we humans naturally hold ourselves up against gravity and learning to once again do that, little by little.

This usually requires some help as our brains only understand the familiar, not the natural, but it is doable and so worth it.

What is your experience with posture, whether your current one hurts and fatigues you, or you’ve been able to correct 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
(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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07/17/2025

Are you being treated as if you
are an individual body part walking through the door? If this is your best option, you can still connect the dots yourself. Your body is one unified system and taking this into account is much more helpful than the fragmented view of the medical system.

Have you struggled with the traditional approach of treating conditions into isolation, or seen success through a more holistic approach?

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