This article is part of our comprehensive guide to hypermobility and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Plenty of people with hEDS turn up at the dentist braced for
Your brain has a map of your body, and the map drives joint control, not the muscle. A look at cortical maps, proprioception, vestibular and visual inputs, why the signal goes fuzzy in hypermobility, and how to train for sharper joint awareness.
Constipation in hypermobility and hEDS is not a fibre problem, it’s mostly a sensation and coordination problem. Here’s what the evidence actually says about the mechanisms and what works.
Hypermobility comes with a strange contradiction: muscles that feel constantly tight, while also being told you have low tone. Once you understand how passive, active and readiness tone actually work, that contradiction makes sense, and so does why traditional ‘just get stronger’ advice keeps missing.
One in four people with hEDS carries diagnoses of all three: hypermobile EDS, POTS, and MCAS. The overlap is well documented. The mechanisms are still being worked out. Here is what the research actually says.
This article is part of our comprehensive guide to hypermobility and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Ozempic and EDS. Ozempic and hypermobility. Ozempic and chronic pain. The questions
This article is part of our comprehensive guide to POTS and dysautonomia. If you’ve spent any time at all in the EDS or POTS communities
Everything you need to know about pregnancy with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and hypermobility. Covering connective tissue changes, pregnancy outcomes, POTS, MCAS, local anaesthetic resistance, labour and delivery, postpartum recovery, breastfeeding, and the 2024 expert guidelines.
A comprehensive, evidence-based guide to pain medication for those with hypermobility and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Covering NSAIDs, paracetamol, gabapentinoids, amitriptyline, opioids, LDN, cannabis, local anaesthetic resistance, and why exercise consistently outperforms them all.
This article is part of our comprehensive guide to hypermobility and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. The Beighton score is nine points built out of five movements, and
This article is part of our comprehensive guide to POTS and dysautonomia. Brain fog is a rubbish name for something a lot of people are
This article is part of our comprehensive guide to hypermobility and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Pelvic floor trouble is no stranger to those with hypermobility and one
