12/01/2026
What you see 🐧 VS What you don’t see 🐋
Bendy joints are often just the tip of the iceberg.
For some people, joint Hypermobility is just one small piece of a much larger picture that can include things like chronic pain, instability, fatigue, POTS, mast cell activation issues, gastrointestinal symptoms, and more.
We need to recognise that joints that move beyond end range isn’t always “just being flexible”, for some, it may be the first visible sign of an underlying connective tissue disorder like hEDS or HSD.
What’s above the water is easy to see.
As practitioners, we need to be digging deeper to below the surface to understand the full picture.
*this is for information purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice. Everyone’s experience is different and unique.
