The Zebrastrong Blog

Estimated reading time: 13 minutesDysautonomia is an umbrella term for conditions where the autonomic nervous system, the part of us that runs heart rate, blood pressure, digestion, and temperature without us having to think about it, doesn’t regulate the way it should.

Estimated reading time: 8 minutesDoes your pain ever feel bigger than the injury or linger after it has healed? Maybe it shows up with no injury at all or spreads in ways that don’t make anatomical sense. Ordinary smells, sounds and bright lights can feel like too much, and stress can turn up the volume on the pain itself.

Estimated reading time: 8 minutesChronic pain is pain that lasts longer than 3 months (1). It can show up in many forms: pain from tissue damage, pain from nerve damage, or pain that lingers after everything has healed.

Estimated reading time: 9 minutesA rib subluxation happens when a rib partially slips out of its usual position without fully dislocating.

Estimated reading time: 7 minutesI get asked about neck pain so often in the hypermobility community, and it’s not hard to see why.

Estimated reading time: 13 minutesHeat intolerance is the name for what happens when the body struggles to regulate its own temperature in response to high temperatures.

Estimated reading time: 7 minutesThe Integral Movement Method grew from two things: clinical evidence and my own lived experience with hEDS.

Estimated reading time: 7 minutesLoeys-Dietz syndrome (LDS) is a rare inherited connective tissue disorder that can affect the heart and blood vessels, bones and joints, face and palate, skin, and several other body systems.

Estimated reading time: 11 minutesHeadaches and migraines are among the most common and disabling symptoms people with hEDS and HSD face.