If you have hypermobility and your head is a regular problem, you’ve probably had it explained to you in one of two ways. Either it’s
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
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.
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.
Why training for hypermobility and chronic pain is a motor learning task before it’s a strength task. The stages your nervous system runs through, where the science is solid, and what that means for how you actually train.
This article is part of our comprehensive guide to exercise and rehabilitation for hypermobility. If your knees feel like they’re always one step behind the
Strength training alone doesn’t fix a hypermobile body. A blunt look at why traditional strength training falls short for hypermobility and Ehlers-Danlos, what motor learning research actually says, and why Pilates style isolation keeps people stuck.
When it comes to a knee that gives way without warning, you stop trusting the ground. The kerb you have stepped down a thousand times.
Most ‘core exercises’ for hypermobility miss the mark. Here’s why the standard ‘engage your core’ advice tends to make things worse, and what we actually use in our studios: breath, pelvic floor, dead bug and bird dog, all built on the cylinder model rather than the six-pack myth.
