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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.

A simple sign that can alert you to the fact that you may be burning your candle at both ends and straining your l, perh...
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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You often hear it said that “the best posture is the next posture” but whoever came up with that doesn’t understand that...
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?

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You often hear it said that “the best posture is the next posture” but whoever came up with that doesn’t understand that...
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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Are you being treated as if youare an individual body part walking through the door? If this is your best option, you ca...
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?

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Are you being treated as if youare an individual body part and not a whole person walking through the door? If this is ...
07/07/2025

Are you being treated as if you
are an individual body part and not a whole person walking through the door? If this is your best option, try to at least connected the dots yourself. Your body is one unified system!

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📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:➡️ physical therapy (FL a...
07/01/2025

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➡️ physical therapy (FL and IL)🇺🇸
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How are you managing your hypermobile body? How have you seen your body change over time? Have you received competent an...
06/19/2025

How are you managing your hypermobile body? How have you seen your body change over time? Have you received competent and compassionate help with the changes? Do you feel well equipped to deal with the changes of aging?

With a hypermobile Ike body we need a very active stance and a game plan, but we CAN do a LOT about how our body functions and recovers.

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📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:➡️ physical therapy (FL a...
06/10/2025

📣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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As if though hypermobility disorder is like EDS and HSD weren’t complicated enough, as time goes by, and we are lucky en...
06/03/2025

As if though hypermobility disorder is like EDS and HSD weren’t complicated enough, as time goes by, and we are lucky enough to age, this adds an additional layer of complexity to the picture.

However, we do have a lot of say in how well we age and how well we feel and function as we do. Understanding the nature of the changes can help us counteract them. How have you seen your body change overtime? Have you received competent and compassionate help with the changes? Do you feel well equipped to deal with the changes of aging?

📣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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Have you been told you “just need to get stronger”? This advice is overly simplistic and often leads symptomatic, hyperm...
05/30/2025

Have you been told you “just need to get stronger”? This advice is overly simplistic and often leads symptomatic, hypermobile people in the wrong direction, and gives them the impression that they can’t get strong.

Don’t get me wrong, strength is great and important, but it can’t be built on an unstable foundation. Taking the time to first work on your stability and understanding of healthy movement Patterns will help you reap great benefits and get stronger without the risk of injury.

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Hyper extension of the knees (the knee bending backwards ) is common in hypermobile individuals, and they are even a par...
05/26/2025

Hyper extension of the knees (the knee bending backwards ) is common in hypermobile individuals, and they are even a part of the so-called Beighton score used to diagnose it.

this hyper extension, if significant or a part of our postural strategy can be a direct and indirect contributor to many hypermobility-related problems.

(I thank my first dance teacher for repeatedly encouraging us to avoid it!)

I often talk about the importance of building, deep stability and a small muscles closest to our joints. Passively hanging on hyperextended knees can also make this go much harder to achieve.

These are some simple exercises and steps. You can take to start becoming aware of knee, hyper extension, and move away from it.

As always, consistent work and patience is key!

How does knee hyperextension affect you?

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If you are a symptomatic hypermobile person you probably have some kind of muscle tension that is bothering you. The tak...
05/21/2025

If you are a symptomatic hypermobile person you probably have some kind of muscle tension that is bothering you. The take-home message of today’s post is that this is not inevitable, but rather something that you can prevent, treat and manage instead of merely getting temporary symptomatic relief through massages etc?

Have you been taught how to manage the issue of muscle tension?

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