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Managing your pain starts with learning with what is the right approach for you. Discover a range of services that can help you manage Hypermobility EDS.
The Zebra Club app
Begin your journey to safe, healthy, hypermobility friendly movement with our app today.
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Strengthen your Hypermobile Core
On this course, I demonstrate and explain every exercise, including 'watch for' points in the hypermobile body. You can work from the comfort of your home, at your pace.
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Educational training for teachers and therapists
This online course is designed to give you all the essential knowledge needed to work with hypermobile clients...
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Moovlite
Welcome to Moovlite, your comprehensive solution to back pain relief in just 12 weeks.
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The Zebra Club Intensive course
Looking to work with Jeannie? The Zebra Club Intensive course will be launching soon. Register your interest in joining this comprehensive EDS / HSD coaching program here.
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The Zebra Club APP
Hypermobility safe, affordable and effective movement, education and community in the comfort of your own home.
The Zebra Club app is a programme based on the Integral Movement Method. In this programme I will carefully guide you through safe exercises to manage your pain.
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The Zebra Club Intensive Course
Looking to work with Jeannie? The Zebra Club Intensive Course will be launching soon. Register your interest in joining this comprehensive EDS / HSD coaching program here. This course will offer the opportunity to work closely with Jeannie through online weekly live coaching sessions in a small group environment over a set number of weeks.
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What clients say
I look forward to my sessions with Jeannie because she really listens and she totally ‘gets it’. She’s such a warm, compassionate person and very knowledgeable about hypermobility. Jeannie has a way of working with her clients- looking at how you move and the body as a whole to find out what’s happening. I have Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder and since seeing Jeannie my posture has changed, my pain has reduced and the way I use my body is just different. If you are undecided about booking an appointment with Jeannie I would say definitely, do it, it’s an investment that you and your body deserve.
Newly diagnosed, it was so refreshing to find a professional movement teacher, with full empathy, and a most impressive wealth of experience. Within the first two sessions, my typical tension and bracing eased markedly, facilitated largely through my first encounter with Reformer Pilates. Then, seeing The Zebra Club app launched and grow over recent years, gives myself and the other members, a real sense of support, validation, and hope, that we can finally use safe and targeted movement practices, to substantially improve our symptoms and quality of life.
Jeannie’s program offered me a pain-free alternative complete with her astute assessment skills and her unwavering empathy. After sessions with Jeannie, I felt like my body had received a healing balm. I was able to practice her exercises without causing a flare-up or causing additional pain. It was like nothing I had ever experienced before. Most importantly, Jeannie’s program gave me hope. Today, because of Jeanie’s program, I have moved into trying so many activities that I would not have previously been able to do.
Working with Jeannie has enabled me to overcome many years of chronic pain and frustration. Her mentorship has been invaluable, and I am so grateful to have movement solutions for pain and fatigue instead of relying on medications or trying to ignore it and power through. The Zebra Club community is also hugely supportive and helpful for tips and tricks for dealing with hypermobility. I'm so thankful for Jeannie and The Zebra Club and highly recommend it to anyone dealing with hypermobility and chronic pain.
From age 11, I have had chronic pain and frequent subluxations. Diagnosed with HSD at 17, every type of therapy I was sent to only made things worse. Discovering Jeannie and working with her has been an absolute game changer. Jeannie's intimate understanding of the EDS body from her wealth of personal and professional experience is very unique. Her x-ray-like vision in detecting and correcting dysfunctional body mechanics is incredible. I have learned how to walk without pain, naturally not lock my hypermobile joints, and activate muscles I didn't know I had. When I first started with Jeannie, I was housebound, but now I am able to attend college full time and work part time.
I have worked with Jeannie Di-Bon face to face for a number of years. Her approach offered me hope and progress where others had failed and has allowed me to recapture confidence and function in my life. Whilst I continue to be a work in progress her expertise has allowed me to find hope for the future where it has historically been lacking.
Discovering Jeannie was a game changer for me. Having struggled with varied physical health problems since my childhood I went on a self-diagnosis journey after I had a problematic pregnancy and birth with my first child - which compounded all my existing health issues. Jeannie has offered patience, guidance and a wealth of knowledge which have helped me to accept, understand and work with my body. Re-educating my nervous system with Jeannie’s guidance has been a slow and gentle process. I feel now I have the tools to take my pain management and future health into my own hands as I understand how my “different” body works and why my body has reacted in certain ways in the past.
The Zebrastrong Blog
Managing your pain starts with learning what works for you, your body, and your lifestyle. That’s why my blog is about more than techniques for managing pain. Here you’ll also find strategies for coping with the emotional and social aspects too.
July 25th, 2024 | Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
Navigating Menopause with Hypermobility and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
When I hit the menopause or rather it hit me, my life changed dramatically. I had been managing my hypermobility and Ehlers-Danlos symptoms pretty well until then.
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July 9th, 2024 | Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
If you have hypermobility, pillow struggle is a real thing
Pillow struggle is a thing. Is there the perfect pillow to hypermobile necks that will help prevent neck and shoulder pain? This is the number one non-movement related question I get emails and questions about.
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July 1st, 2024 | Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
Managing fatigue and it’s impacts
First of all, If you have EDS or HSD and suffer from fatigue, you are not alone. When we began to analyse the responses in our study on the IMM using my Strengthen Your Hypermobile Core video series with Dr. Russek and Jane Simmonds, we found that fatigue was one of the biggest barriers to movement (along with pain).
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June 24th, 2024 | Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
What is chronic pain?
The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage”. Pain is considered chronic if it lasts for longer than 3 months (1).
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June 17th, 2024 | Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
Understanding hypermobility in the neck
Neck pain is a common issue faced by those of us with hypermobility. Proprioception and muscle endurance of the neck are essential for functional stability (1). This is often lacking in hypermobility due to joint instability, muscle strains, poor posture, and ligament laxity.
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June 10th, 2024 | Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
Understanding double-jointed elbows
Why write a whole blog about the elbow joint? Well, the elbow joint is like the knee joint – it is impacted by both the action of the wrist and the shoulder. It is the middleman and often ends up taking the strain for poor mechanics elsewhere. I think elbows are underrated in how we treat and manage hypermobility. How hypermobile people use their arms is going to hugely impact elbow issues.
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June 3rd, 2024 | Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
Managing Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome through Exercise
Have you been told to exercise to help manage your EDS or HSD? Perhaps you have been given no instruction on how to exercise with this condition. Or perhaps you’ve been told to just do pilates or go swimming. Or maybe you’ve been sent to a physical therapist who doesn’t understand hypermobility and makes things worse?
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May 28th, 2024 | Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
Hypermobility and Stretching
We know feeling tight is a common experience in hypermobility. When we have looser joints, our muscles often tighten up to try and stabilize. It can feel good at the time to stretch them. We must remember that our muscles are tight for a reason.
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May 19th, 2024 | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
The EDS Diet by Lorna Ryan
We all consume food and exist in a world where opinion and advice on diet is freely shared. The public is pleased to share tips. Family wishes to impart wisdom. Professional patients keen to share their n=1. Healthcare professionals sometimes slide out of scope to offer recommendations. And no more so than in the niche arena of Hypermobility & Ehlers-Danlos syndromes.
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May 14th, 2024 | Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
Rib subluxations are common in hypermobility
I know it can be a common thing in hypermobility and it is very painful. It can make us anxious about exercising as we fear a subluxation. Some people have even been told by some medical professionals that a rib subluxation is physically impossible – but I think if you have hypermobility you may disagree with this.
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