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August 5th, 2024
How does hypermobility impact your Knees?
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Hyperextension of the knees in hypermobility is common. I used the adopt the strangest of standing postures, from simple knee locking to crossing one leg over the other, or actually wrapping one leg around the other one.
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December 15th, 2022
What’s tissue tolerance? Can it help me avoid injury with hypermobility?
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Injury prevention – how do we work towards that with hypermobility?
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August 22nd, 2022
What really happens when we lock our joints?
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes 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.
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May 19th, 2022
The Lonely Chronic Illness Life
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes 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’ – like it’s a miracle cure.
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February 17th, 2022
EDS UK Community Champion Award Winner
Estimated reading time: < 1 minute 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.
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January 25th, 2022
Living with Ehlers-Danlos – A Life in Two Halves
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes 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.
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September 14th, 2020
The Neglected Stress Impact of a Chronic Illness
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes “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 community. Breathing comes first. Movement second.
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March 21st, 2020
My gift to you in these unprecedented times
Estimated reading time: < 1 minute Keep Moving with me for free – in your own home. These are unprecedented times. Who would have thought we would be living in almost total isolation. Our gyms, Pilates classes and physiotherapy clinics are closing until further notice. And yet, we know that we need to keep moving.
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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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