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October 16th, 2023

Managing Nociceptive and Neuropathic Pain with Dr. Leslie Russek

Estimated reading time: 2 minutesNociceptive and neuropathic pain are caused by mechanical factors, inflammation, or disease affecting the tissues

October 15th, 2023

The 3 Types of Hypermobility Pain by Dr. Leslie Russek

Estimated reading time: 2 minutesPain is a signal from your brain that it perceives danger. There are 3 types of pain: nociceptive, neuropathic, and neoplastic.

June 14th, 2023

How trauma led me to hypermobility movement therapy

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes“English is my second language. Movement is my first.” Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. I heard this a while ago and it really resonated with me. I’m not sure where I’d be if I hadn’t found movement therapy. For me, movement is so much more than exercise. It’s so much deeper than simple mechanics.

May 3rd, 2023

Creating safety in our own hypermobile bodies is key

Estimated reading time: < 1 minute“When we feel safe, we can be whoever we were meant to be”. Stephen Porges, author of The Polyvagal Theory, said this at an event I attended with him. I have been curious and passionate about creating a sense of safety for myself and my clients since I created my Integral Movement Method.

April 4th, 2023

Thanks for sticking with me when things got tough

Estimated reading time: < 1 minute“Thanks for sticking with me when things go tough”. I received this at the end of an email from a lovely EDS client. I work with some very complex cases. There are always going to be ups and downs. A condition like EDS or HSD is never linear. I am prepared for the unexpected.

January 24th, 2023

What’s your breath trying to tell you?

Estimated reading time: < 1 minuteUnderstanding how we breathe and why we breathe the way we do is key to rehab.

December 15th, 2022

What’s tissue tolerance? Can it help me avoid injury with hypermobility?

Estimated reading time: 2 minutesInjury prevention – how do we work towards that with hypermobility?

November 8th, 2022

Should I Squeeze my Glutes when I exercise with hypermobility?

Estimated reading time: 2 minutesSqueezing, pushing, pulling – all words I try to avoid when teaching my hypermobile clients. Why – because they tend to put more tension into the body rather than helping someone move with ease and less pain.

October 11th, 2022

Relationships and Chronic Pain

Estimated reading time: 4 minutesI recently did a post about pain management. Someone raised the question on the post of ‘how can I communicate my pain to my partner effectively?’

August 22nd, 2022

What really happens when we lock our joints?

Estimated reading time: 2 minutesWhat happens when we lock our Hypermobile Joints? As someone who always stood with locked knees and picked things up with hyperextended elbows, changing this pattern was really important for my joint health.

July 13th, 2022

Chronic Illness Exercise – Do you mourn your previous regime?

Estimated reading time: 2 minutesWhat’s your relationship with exercise? Has it changed over the years? Did a chronic illness diagnosis change your approach?

June 8th, 2022

Has the exercise message been movement at any cost?

Estimated reading time: 2 minutesHave you ever felt the message was ‘movement at any cost? I was speaking with a client recently who felt this was very much the message she had always perceived. We need to exercise, you must do it every day no matter what, even if it takes an hour or more. Regardless of how you feel or what the body is telling you. And if you don’t do them, you are failing or lazy. This is not the way forward. It is not healthy physically or mentally.

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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