Hypermobility Doctor

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Online physical therapy, personal training and consultations with a Doctor of Physical Therapy specializing in hypermobility (HSD, hEDS), and the prevention and treatment of associated pain and dysfunction.

Have you incorporated glycine into your nutrition? If not, your body may be running on a deficit. Start with a little (~...
01/29/2026

Have you incorporated glycine into your nutrition? If not, your body may be running on a deficit. Start with a little (~ 3g) before sleep and take it from there. Glycine is generally very safe, but we are all different, and what matters most is how something makes you feel and function. Talk with a clinician if you:
Have kidney or serious liver disease or take multiple meds for blood sugar or psychiatric conditions.

📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:
➡️ therapeutic exercise coaching
for hypermobility 🌍
➡️ physical therapy (FL and IL)🇺🇸
➡️ consultations 🌍

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This post is offered for informational purposes only and does not constitute specific advice for any given individual. Always take your individual circumstances into account before implementing changes.

Knee pain is often the first symptom young women with EDS/HSD suffer from, and knee problems remain common throughout li...
01/27/2026

Knee pain is often the first symptom young women with EDS/HSD suffer from, and knee problems remain common throughout life.

Knee pain can cause a lot of fear and confusion. One of the reasons Ishtar it seems like we should primarily be moving the knee in order to help it function better, while the real answer is found higher up, at the hip.

Have you struggled with knee pain?

📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:
➡️ therapeutic exercise coaching
for hypermobility 🌍
➡️ physical therapy (FL and IL)🇺🇸
➡️ consultations 🌍

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This post is offered for informational purposes only and does not constitute specific advice for any given individual. Always take your individual circumstances into account before implementing changes.

How can you address pain if you don’t know what’s causing it? Generic “back exercises” or “core work” may not be what un...
01/26/2026

How can you address pain if you don’t know what’s causing it? Generic “back exercises” or “core work” may not be what underlying reason for your pain requires in order to be fully addressed.

📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:
➡️ therapeutic exercise coaching
for hypermobility 🌍
➡️ physical therapy (FL and IL)🇺🇸
➡️ consultations 🌍

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This post is offered for informational purposes only and does not constitute specific advice for any given individual. Always take your individual circumstances into account before implementing changes.


We can only solve a problem we understand. This holds true for symptoms and experiences related to hypermobility disorde...
01/22/2026

We can only solve a problem we understand. This holds true for symptoms and experiences related to hypermobility disorders as well.

📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:
➡️ therapeutic exercise coaching
for hypermobility 🌍
➡️ physical therapy (FL and IL)🇺🇸
➡️ consultations 🌍

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There is nothing inherently wrong with a heating pad, or even a massage if you’d like to spring for that. However, these...
01/20/2026

There is nothing inherently wrong with a heating pad, or even a massage if you’d like to spring for that. However, these things do not address the underlying reason for chronic muscle tension and pain. My preference, both clinically, and as someone with EDS is to focus most of my efforts on the underlying reasons for pain. This helps more both in the present time, but also ensures less degeneration overtime.

📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:
➡️ therapeutic exercise coaching
for hypermobility 🌍
➡️ physical therapy (FL and IL)🇺🇸
➡️ consultations 🌍

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This post is offered for informational purposes only and does not constitute specific advice for any given individual. Always take your individual circumstances into account before implementing changes. # Eds

There’s nothing wrong with the heating pad or even a massage if you want to invest in that, but neither one helps solve ...
01/20/2026

There’s nothing wrong with the heating pad or even a massage if you want to invest in that, but neither one helps solve the underlying problem. The smart thing is to stop focusing so much on short term solutions and focus more on solving the underlying problem so that your body can function better and signal less to you through pain .

📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:
➡️ therapeutic exercise coaching
for hypermobility 🌍
➡️ physical therapy (FL and IL)🇺🇸
➡️ consultations 🌍

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This post is offered for informational purposes only and does not constitute specific advice for any given individual. Always take your individual circumstances into account before implementing changes.

👉The pain in EDS/HSD often starts due to the unique features of a hypermobile body, but over time it is amplified by a v...
01/14/2026

👉The pain in EDS/HSD often starts due to the unique features of a hypermobile body, but over time it is amplified by a vicious cycle of instability, co-contraction, anxiety and (very understandable) fear of the pain itself and perceived fragility.

This cycle can be broken, but doing so must be based on an understanding of how the body/mind works as supposed to a simplistic idea of mere musculoskeletal weakness.

📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:
➡️ therapeutic exercise coaching
for hypermobility 🌍
➡️ physical therapy (FL and IL)🇺🇸
➡️ consultations 🌍

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A major contributor to ill health is being stuck in a chronic stress response, not feeling safe on a conscious emotional...
01/12/2026

A major contributor to ill health is being stuck in a chronic stress response, not feeling safe on a conscious emotional or subconscious, even biochemical and cellular level. This aspect is too often overlooked and missed when there are other diagnostic labels. Unfortunately many features of hypermobility disorders contribute to and are brought about or worsened by this lack of safety, this lack of parasympathetic tone in the system.

What are you doing to address this in your rehab and self - management? Share in the comments!
# vagusnerve

📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:
➡️ therapeutic exercise coaching
for hypermobility 🌍
➡️ physical therapy (FL and IL)🇺🇸
➡️ consultations 🌍

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This post is offered for informational purposes only and does not constitute specific advice for any given individual. Always take your individual circumstances into account before implementing changes.

If you’ve been reacting to tightness in your hypermobile body by stretching (alone), with limited or poor results, this ...
01/10/2026

If you’ve been reacting to tightness in your hypermobile body by stretching (alone), with limited or poor results, this post is for you.

What you may not realize is that the tone in your muscles is wholly determined by your nervous system. Because of this, understanding how to convince the nervous system to lower the muscle tone is the only way to relax muscles.

stretching can, when done correctly, do this, but in a painful hypermobile body this is usually not sufficient, and often even counterproductive.

📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:
➡️ therapeutic exercise coaching
for hypermobility 🌍
➡️ physical therapy (FL and IL)🇺🇸
➡️ consultations 🌍

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This post is offered for informational purposes only and does not constitute specific advice for any given individual. Always take your individual circumstances into account before implementing changes.

The Goldilocks Principle is a god one to keep in mind when training a hypermobile body to tolerate life better. Not too ...
01/07/2026

The Goldilocks Principle is a god one to keep in mind when training a hypermobile body to tolerate life better. Not too much, not too little, just right, with a good understanding of the unique challenges a hypermobile faces.

📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:
➡️ therapeutic exercise coaching
for hypermobility 🌍
➡️ physical therapy (FL and IL)🇺🇸
➡️ consultations 🌍

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This post is offered for informational purposes only and does not constitute specific advice for any given individual. Always take your individual circumstances into account.

📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:➡️ therapeutic exercise c...
01/05/2026

📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:
➡️ therapeutic exercise coaching
for hypermobility 🌍
➡️ physical therapy (FL and IL)🇺🇸
➡️ consultations 🌍

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This post is offered for informational purposes only and does not constitute specific advice for any given individual. Always take your individual circumstances into account before implementing changes.


Chronic pain is not simply a direct signal of tissue damage. It is a complex reaction in both body and mind. Understandi...
12/30/2025

Chronic pain is not simply a direct signal of tissue damage. It is a complex reaction in both body and mind. Understanding ongoing pain holistically gives us greater power over it and gives us lots of tools to control and decrease it.

📣If you’d like to work with me, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling schedule an appointment for:
➡️ physical therapy (FL and IL)🇺🇸
➡️ consultations (worldwide🌍)
➡️ exercise coaching for
hypermobility (worldwide 🌍)

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This post is offered for informational purposes only and does not constitute specific advice for any given individual. Always take your individual circumstances into account before implementing changes.

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