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Movement & Exercise
September 3rd, 2025
10 Common Movement Challenges People with Hypermobility Face (And How to Fix Them)
Estimated reading time: 8 minutesI am sure we have all experienced this; you try to stay active and exercise, but despite ‘doing everything right’, you still end up sore, injured, or exhausted.
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August 18th, 2025
Pilates for Hypermobility & Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: A Safer, Stabilizing Approach
Estimated reading time: 9 minutesYou’ve probably been told to ‘try Pilates’ at some point – maybe by a well-meaning doctor or physio.
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August 4th, 2025
From Struggling to Walk 10 Meters to Walking 2.5km: How The Zebra Club Helped Ian Reclaim His Life with EDS
Estimated reading time: 5 minutesI first met Ian at an EDS UK men’s online movement class during the pandemic.
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July 15th, 2025
Scared to Exercise with EDS or hypermobility? You’re Not Alone. Here’s a Safer Way to Start
Estimated reading time: 5 minutesBeing scared to exercise is something I commonly hear about. It makes sense if you have experienced pain or injury in the past.
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June 23rd, 2025
Tanya’s Story: How The Zebra Club Transformed My Life with EDS
Estimated reading time: 6 minutesThis is a really beautiful story I’d like to share with you. It’s heartwarming, inspiring, and hopefully, gives us all hope of what we can achieve with the right support and solutions at our fingertips.
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May 21st, 2025
Hypermobility, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome & Physical Therapy
Estimated reading time: 9 minutesHave you been referred to physical therapy or physiotherapy to manage your symptomatic hypermobility?
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April 29th, 2025
Mindful Movement, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, and Hypermobility
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.
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April 23rd, 2025
Gaining Strength with Hypermobility
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.
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March 31st, 2025
Core Strength In Hypermobility
Estimated reading time: 7 minutesIf you have hypermobility, chances are someone has told you that you need to strengthen your ‘core’. This generally involves exercises like sit ups, superman, planks, and wall squats.
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February 24th, 2025
Best exercises and stretches for lower back pain
Estimated reading time: 5 minutesI became interested in learning more about the mechanics of back pain after my initial Pilates training. So many people who attend Pilates classes start because they have pain, often back pain. I trained to become a back care specialist in 2009 and started running weekly back pain classes.
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February 14th, 2025
Why does my lower back hurt when walking?
Estimated reading time: 8 minutesThe current advice to to manage low back pain is to stay active (1), but what if walking – one of the most easy and accessible ways to stay active – results in pain?
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January 27th, 2025
The SI Joint and Hypermobility
Estimated reading time: 5 minutesI’ve lost count of the number of clients who describe sacroiliac joint or SI joint pain with their hypermobility. This pain can be felt in the lower back, as deep groin pain, in the glutes, and into the leg.
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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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