How can I help you? Let me offer a place to start.
Labels can be useful, but they don’t guide you. Awareness does. Begin with a deep awareness of your own body.
Work with simple movements where you know you can go beyond what most would call a normal range. Move very slowly, almost as if you’re surrounded by resistance. As you move, you’ll feel the point where control begins to give way and you start to enter hyperextension. When you reach that point, pause. Not abruptly, just a quiet stop. Take a breath and ease back to where the movement still feels supported and stable. That is your working range.
Start recognizing that boundary in everything you do. If you can fold all the way forward, don’t go there. Find the point just before the structure begins to give, and stay with that. Over time, that becomes your reference.
I often speak about working at about seventy percent. Most people think more is better, but in my experience, pushing to one hundred percent creates stress and breakdown. For someone with hypermobility, that effect is amplified. The goal is not to see how far you can go. The goal is to move well within a range you can control.
Developing awareness is the foundation. Strength and stability come from there. Hypermobility can be managed, but only when it’s understood and respected.
Wishing you the very best. If you need more direction, feel free to reach out.
How can I help you? Let me offer a place to start.
Labels can be useful, but they don’t guide you. Awareness does. Begin with a deep awareness of your own body.
Work with simple movements where you know you can go beyond what most would call a normal range. Move very slowly, almost as if you’re surrounded by resistance. As you move, you’ll feel the point where control begins to give way and you start to enter hyperextension. When you reach that point, pause. Not abruptly, just a quiet stop. Take a breath and ease back to where the movement still feels supported and stable. That is your working range.
Start recognizing that boundary in everything you do. If you can fold all the way forward, don’t go there. Find the point just before the structure begins to give, and stay with that. Over time, that becomes your reference.
I often speak about working at about seventy percent. Most people think more is better, but in my experience, pushing to one hundred percent creates stress and breakdown. For someone with hypermobility, that effect is amplified. The goal is not to see how far you can go. The goal is to move well within a range you can control.
Developing awareness is the foundation. Strength and stability come from there. Hypermobility can be managed, but only when it’s understood and respected.
Wishing you the very best. If you need more direction, feel free to reach out.
Dr. G