Rehabilitation Coach and Movement Specialist in Hypermobility, EDS, and Chronic Pain
Adam Foster is one of the leading voices in hypermobility and chronic pain rehabilitation. He is a specialist movement therapist for hypermobility, personal trainer, strength coach, self-defence instructor, pain neuroscience educator, and the founder of The Fibro Guy. Since 2009 he has worked with thousands of people across eight countries, many of whom had been told there was nothing more that could be done for them. Some were in wheelchairs. Some were children. Some had spent a decade going from specialist to specialist without a single useful answer.
He built The Fibro Guy from nothing after an IED blast in Afghanistan left him with chronic pain that the medical system could not explain. No specialist could help, so he went deep into the research himself. Pain neuroscience. Proprioception. Motor learning. Cortical mapping. He became obsessed with understanding why the standard advice for hypermobile and chronic pain bodies does not work, and what to do instead. Fifteen years later, that obsession has become one of the most respected independent education platforms in the space.
His approach draws on sensorimotor neuroscience, movement rehabilitation, pain science, and psychology. He has advanced training in postural dysfunction, movement impairment, and lower and upper body dysfunction, and studied psychology to degree level with Distinction. But what defines his work is not qualifications. It is the fact that when he discovered some of the mechanisms he had built his entire framework on were wrong, he threw the framework out and started again. Twice. That willingness to follow the evidence rather than defend a position is rare in this space and it is why the content on this site holds up to scrutiny.
His business partner Jonny Young walked through the door as a client with fibromyalgia. At his worst he could not use his hands. He became a partner in 2019 and together they have built something neither of them planned: a globally recognised resource for people living with conditions that most of the medical world still does not understand properly.
Adam co-authored “No Pain, No Pain” with trauma psychologist Dr Mairi Harper, directed the documentary “Invisible Monster” on invisible illness, has presented for EDS UK, chaired the Newcastle Fibromyalgia Support Group, and produced charity-endorsed exercise content with Fibromyalgia Action UK. He served as a Reconnaissance Soldier with the Household Cavalry from 2006 to 2010, including an operational tour of Afghanistan.
His work has been featured in Forbes, BBC Radio 4, ITV News, The Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Sun, Metro, LiveScience, Stylist, and EDS UK.