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 been receiving the runaround when looking for help with EDS /HSD symptoms? Shuttled from one specialist to anot...
04/20/2026

Have you been receiving the runaround when looking for help with EDS /HSD symptoms? Shuttled from one specialist to another, gathering more drugs and more appointments as you go along? Have you had episodes of PT for a variety of body parts, feeling like no-one sees the whole?

The problem doesn’t lie with you, but the system. A system that was design to profit from your problems, but never offer complete solutions or a comprehensive view of what’s going on.

📣If you’d like to work with me online, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling 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.

📣A better way to think about exercise for your hypermobile body. If you’d like to work with me online, see the link bio ...
04/17/2026

📣A better way to think about exercise for your hypermobile body.

If you’d like to work with me online, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling 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.

Have you ever been perplexed by the seemingly disparate and confusing symptoms of your body? Medical professionals, all ...
04/13/2026

Have you ever been perplexed by the seemingly disparate and confusing symptoms of your body? Medical professionals, all experts in their own narrow field, may find it hard to trace the chain reaction of symptoms through many different body systems.

But knowing that there is logic behind it all can help us sort through our symptoms and better understand symptoms, and this is the first step to addressing them.

Have you experienced this? Shae in the comments!

📣If you’d like to work with me online, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling 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 ability to stabilize our spine and trunk is a corner stone for muscular skeletal health and movement. For those wit...
04/09/2026

📣The ability to stabilize our spine and trunk is a corner stone for muscular skeletal health and movement. For those with EDS and HSD training and making sure that these muscles function optimally is even more important than it is for others. Surprisingly, you can be quite fit and active and still have poor stability in this area.

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

Follow and share to make sure you don’t miss any posts and to help spread information!

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

Follow and share to make sure you don’t miss any posts and to help spread information!

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.

In today’s fast paced healthcare world focused more on revenue than recovery patients often receive a cursory once-over,...
04/07/2026

In today’s fast paced healthcare world focused more on revenue than recovery patients often receive a cursory once-over, not an carful, individualized analysis.

this sometimes means weeks, months, and even years of treatment and suffering without much lasting improvement.

Only when we skip this model and take our time, can we be reasonably sure that we are barking at the right tree.

This is also important for the patient to know. Sometimes your own sense of what is going on is at least equally important as the practitioners, so don’t be hesitant to bring up your own concerns and observations.

Example: if you notice that your shoulder pain often occurs after eating, be sure to bring this up as it may be a sign that the problem is not in the shoulder joint, but in the liver or gallbladder.

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

Follow and share to make sure you don’t miss any posts and to help spread information!

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 most common story I hear from my new patients with EDS/HSD is how they have tried exercise, PT and of course all the...
04/05/2026

The most common story I hear from my new patients with EDS/HSD is how they have tried exercise, PT and of course all the palliative treatments out there but nothing seems to help. If anything, they will things are gradually getting worse.

The problem is not the patient, it’s the healthcare system that doesn’t see the individual or teach the individual how a problem should be approached. Not by throwing the same old stuff at everyone, but by understanding the patient, the problem and based on this, the solution this specific individual needs. And that these needs aren’t fixed, and therefore our approach has to bend and stretch with us.

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

Follow and share to make sure you don’t miss any posts and to help spread information!

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 and HSD are more than bendy joints. They are conditions that affect all the tissues that contain collagen, meaning t...
03/31/2026

EDS and HSD are more than bendy joints. They are conditions that affect all the tissues that contain collagen, meaning the entire body. Because of this, your body systems don’t organize themselves neatly by medical specialty, but rather form an integrated whole. While you may have been given a formal diagnosis of one specific condition, it pays to be aware that this can still manifest broadly in body systems not included in the diagnosis. What does this mean? It means that — as one example among many— laxity in the gastrointestinal tract can end up contributing to a mood disorder or dizziness, symptoms that your gastroenterologist would not be on the lookout for. Always remember that you have a body wide condition, not just bendy joints. This will help you better understand your symptoms and take better care of yourself, resulting in better health and function!

📣If you’d like to work with me online, see the link bio for 📆 scheduling an appointment for:➡️ therapeutic exercise coac...
03/30/2026

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

Follow and share to make sure you don’t miss any posts and to help spread information!

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.

There is more to pain than meets the eye. Modern pain neuroscience has helped us understand pain much better, and as a r...
03/26/2026

There is more to pain than meets the eye. Modern pain neuroscience has helped us understand pain much better, and as a result we now have greater power to treat it than before. Unfortunately this is often misinterpreted as discounting or minimizing pain, whereas the whole field exists in order to treat pain.

One way in which I take this into account in my work with my patients, and also with my own rehab, is to proceed in a way that avoids causing more pain. While fear of pain is known to increase it, the path to freedom from pain is not through more suffering.

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

Follow and share to make sure you don’t miss any posts and to help spread information!

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.

Understanding pain is one of the most important steps we can take tar in conquering it. Pain neuroscience has evolved a ...
03/24/2026

Understanding pain is one of the most important steps we can take tar in conquering it. Pain neuroscience has evolved a lot from its origins, but is still often treated purely as a measure of physical injury.

Fortunately understanding pain more deeply opens new and accessible gates for improvement.

Are your healthcare providers taking all of you into account when addressing pain?

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

Follow and share to make sure you don’t miss any posts and to help spread information!

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/HSD care should be holistic, but the healthcare system isn’t. An sense of safety is a very important aspect of res...
03/21/2026

EDS/HSD care should be holistic, but the healthcare system isn’t. An sense of safety is a very important aspect of restoring function and decreasing pain.

If the providers you’re working with don’t recognize this aspect, you can still address it in your own self-care, and bring it up as something you’d like to incorporate.

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

Follow and share to make sure you don’t miss any posts and to help spread information!

Having EDS or HSD (or a child with these conditions) ca feel very confusing. The symptoms that arise cut across medical ...
03/20/2026

Having EDS or HSD (or a child with these conditions) ca feel very confusing. The symptoms that arise cut across medical specialities, yet have to be treated holistically as the body is always an integrated whole.

Understanding your own body is always the first step. Follow me to keep learning!

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

Follow and share to make sure you don’t miss any posts and to help spread information!

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