The Connective Issue · Pelvic Pain The Surgery Worked. The Pain Stayed. I hear the same story a few times a month. A woman waits years for someone to take her periods seriously. She finally gets surgery. The surgeon finds endometriosis and removes it. For a few months, she feels like herself again. Then [...]
The Connective Issue · Dysautonomia When Low Blood Volume Looks Like a Seizure — or a Stroke: POTS in hypermobile patients Some of the most frightening moments my hypermobile patients describe are not joint injuries. They are the episodes where the body simply stops cooperating: the room goes white, [...]
The Connective Issue · Lead Feature The Steroid Myth in EDS: why the right injection isn’t the enemy If you live with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome or hypermobility, you have almost certainly been told the same thing I hear in my clinic every week: “Stay away from steroids. They’ll dissolve your tissue.” It is repeated so [...]
Your Diagnosis Journey Getting Diagnosed With Hypermobility: a roadmap, not a dead end The path to a hypermobility spectrum disorder (HSD) or Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) diagnosis is famously long — the average patient waits years and sees multiple providers before anyone connects the dots. It does not have to be that way. This guide [...]
Patient Success Stories When the Answer Was Folate All Along: Real Stories of Hypermobility Turned Around For many people with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) or hypermobility spectrum disorder (HSD), the hardest part isn’t the diagnosis — it’s the years of being told there’s nothing more to be done. [...]
Hypermobility & Restless Legs Restless Legs — or Something Else? Nighttime Leg Symptoms in Hypermobile Bodies If you have hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) or hypermobility spectrum disorder (HSD), you may know the feeling well: an irresistible urge to move your legs at night, deep aching or crawling sensations [...]
OxeFit Training for Hypermobility · Two Locations Build strength safely on OxeFit — with a team that understands hypermobility. For hypermobile and EDS bodies, the safest place to train is a private, physician-led gym running a protocol built for your joints — on OxeFit smart equipment that measures every rep. Founded and led by [...]
Hypermobility & EDS · Safe Strength Training Why hypermobile and EDS bodies should train in a private, physician-led gym. Strength training is one of the most powerful tools for managing hypermobility spectrum disorder and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome — but only when it is done correctly. In a crowded commercial gym, the wrong load or the [...]
Fascia · Hypermobility · Connective Tissue 250 years of fascia — and what it means for hypermobile bodies. The tissue anatomists once scraped away and discarded is now called the body’s largest sensory organ. If you live with hypermobility, that shift changes the whole story. In July 1776, a new republic declared [...]
Long COVID · Hypermobility · EDS Long COVID that won’t let go? The missing piece may be hypermobility. Some of the most stubborn Long COVID cases turn out to be undiagnosed Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Here’s the connection — and what a deeper evaluation can actually find. Months after the infection cleared, the symptoms [...]
