Squeezing, 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. Let's take the Bridge as an example....
I 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?' This is such an important question - relationships and communication when living with a chronic illness. ...
What 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. Why do we lock our joints? Subconsciously we think...
What’s your relationship with exercise? Has it changed over the years? Did a chronic illness diagnosis change your approach? Chances are, things had to change. I know my approach did. My clients share their exercise history with me - many people going from being very active...
Have 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...
Living with a chronic illness can sometimes be lonely. It can be difficult for friends and family to really understand how we are feeling and why we don’t ‘get better’. It drives me crazy when people say ‘you just need a good night sleep’ -...
What’s it like when you go out out – if you do go out out? Is there a lot of preparation and organisation involved? I have friends who don’t have EDS or chronic illness. They fill their weekends with activities from morning till night...
I’m super proud and delighted to receive the Community Champion Award fromy Ehlers-Danlos Support UK. Thank you to Anne Lavery and Nikki Casey Eds for a lovely day when I was presented with my award. I was presented with the Community Champion Award for...
Like many of us, I used to see my life in two halves. Pre motherhood, I lived with symptoms on a daily basis like muscular pain, daily migraines, digestive issues (diagnosed as IBS aged 12). I thought everyone had issues every day. But I held...
I’m not sure if it’s more prevalent in the hypermobile community but I see a fair amount of Plantar Fasciitis in the clinic. This is a painful inflammatory condition of the plantar fascia under the foot. This fascia runs from the heel to the toes....