The Zebrastrong Blog

Estimated reading time: 6 minutesHow often do we hear “you’re just deconditioned” – as if that is a personal failing or a lack of effort to maintain our fitness and activity? 

Estimated reading time: 9 minutesI’ve always struggled with heat since a child. I remember heat rash or prickly heat starting around the age of 6, together with dizziness and sickness. 

Estimated reading time: 7 minutesAt The Zebra Club, I am continually inspired by the stories of our members and their demonstrations of perseverance, courage and transformation in the face of chronic pain and complex conditions.  

Estimated reading time: 9 minutesHave you been referred to physical therapy or physiotherapy to manage your symptomatic hypermobility?

Estimated reading time: 9 minutesLooking back, the signs were there — little things that didn’t seem connected at the time.

Estimated reading time: 6 minutesMost of us have probably heard of mindfulness if we live with chronic pain. It is often suggested that the practice of mindfulness can be helpful in pain management.

Estimated reading time: 8 minutesIf you live with hypermobility, EDS, or HSD, chances are you’ve been advised that you need to ‘get stronger’ to manage your condition.

Estimated reading time: 7 minutesIf you have EDS or HSD, have you ever experienced that feeling of not being able to take a deep breath or feeling breathless and anxious about breathing?

Estimated reading time: 9 minutesI first started learning about fascia back in 2010 when I attended an in depth anatomy course over the course of a year. It included the wonderful opportunity to attend a cadaver dissection and see and touch this amazing connective tissue we all have.