Do you have ‘coathanger’ pain? What's that? . This is the pain that radiates across the shoulders, upper back and up into the neck. It looks like a coathanger. It's a muscular pain and can often be helped by improving posture, alignment and improving muscle...
What does the word Exercise mean for you? Does it fill you with dread and anxiety? It is time that narrative changed for the community? Defying the odds: I’m never one to tell someone they should stop doing something they love. I believe...
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...
2020 was an incredibly challenging year for everyone on so many levels. With a history of pneumonia and bronchiectasis I was naturally worried about catching the virus. When things became serious in the UK, my family practised strict isolation. We limited our visits to...
“Psychological factors can trigger a breathing pattern that might be appropriate to an emergency situation, when no such emergency exists”. This is an extract from a book on breathing pattern disorders. I became so interested in breathing patterns the more I worked with our hypermobile...
Give yourself (or your pet) a big hug. You’re doing great. I have a question. How do you look after yourself when things get challenging? I ask because self-care was not something I used to do, certainly not regularly. One thing that lockdown has given me...
Boom and Bust: I imagine we’ve all been there at some point. But what do we do about it? This topic has been coming up a lot recently in conversations with hypermobile and EDS clients. How do we progress without the boom and bust? I wanted...
Encouraging someone who lives with chronic pain to ‘get moving’ could sound like a misguided, insensitive piece of advice. However, throughout my years as a professional Pilates and movement coach (not to mention during my years of ill health) I’ve seen time and again the...
Stress can be a good thing. We all need a little stress, just like we all need problems; these things keep us going and push us forward. If we didn't have manageable stress or problems, we would just vegetate or stop growing. The trouble arises...
Last week I went to my first Star Wars film - my two boys were desperate to see it and I confess I really enjoyed it. Being a Star Wars novice, I will keep it simple but as most people know the story is about...