If you have hypermobility and spend any time online, you’ve almost certainly run into the Body Braid. It’s that spiral elastic garment, the one that
A deep, chronological, critical review of the research on Pilates for chronic low back pain, hypermobility, and fibromyalgia. What the trials actually show, what they don’t, and what to look for if you’re considering it.
Yoga gets recommended for almost everything that aches, but what does the research really say? We look at the history, the evidence, how it compares with tai chi and Pilates, and what it means for fibromyalgia and hypermobility.
Chronic pain and intimacy for queer, trans and polyamorous people: community insight on HRT and libido, joint pain in queer sex, two disabled partners, and polyamory as a structural accommodation for chronic illness.
What hypermobility and EDS community members actually use during intimacy to protect joints, plus what the evidence says about kinesiology tape, braces, compression and props.
A practical pain management routine for intimacy with chronic pain. What to do before, during, and after, drawn from community experience and evidence based principles.
Pacing advice usually focuses on the things that look like work. Cooking, cleaning, shopping, working, exercise. Intimacy gets left off the list, partly because nobody
Most sex advice assumes a body that does what it’s told. Bend here, hold this, support your weight on that joint for as long as
You didn’t sign up to be a carer. Neither did they. That wasn’t the deal when the relationship started. And yet here you are, a
There’s a grief that sits underneath chronic pain that most clinicians don’t name, most partners don’t fully see, and most people living with it don’t
There’s a conversation that happens in a lot of relationships where one person has chronic pain. It goes something like this: the person with pain
This article covers: Toggle The disclosure question, and why nobody gives you a straight answer What the research actually shows about when to tell The
