iStock By Mary Carpenter Mary is updating her 2016 post on hypermobility because she found out about a recently opened (2019) D.C.-area clinic, which specializes in connective tissue disorders that underlie hypermobility – it currently has an 18-month waiting list…
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…symptoms related to hypermobility can lead to a diagnosis of Joint Hypermobility Syndrome (JHS), writes Alan Pocinki, hypermobility expert at George Washington Hospital, in a packet requested by his patients “to help educate others about their condition.” JHS affects three…
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…orthopedic surgeries—traced mostly to hypermobility in my joints—I began going several times a year to local bodyworker Rebecca Carli, based on friends’ recommendations. Each time, Carli got my body feeling better balanced and ended every session with blissful cranial-sacral (head…
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…hypotheses and research on the connection between my issues—joint hypermobility, inflammation and chronic pain, sometimes called “joint hypermobility syndrome”—and inherited disorders of collagen synthesis, like Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. To combat the ravages of aging skin, ingesting collagen seems to offer the…
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…I have learned that any movement, including fidgeting, at least once during each half-hour period can help counter the hypermobility, beginning with loose joints, that creates myriad problems. I am also working on general self-acceptance. But a new fidget with…
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