Due to this gene the connective tissue is very pliable or stretchy and so allows excessive movements of the body’s joints, this excessive movement and lack of control around a joint can then produce ‘arthralgia’ or joint pain believed to be from the shearing (side to side) forces that the joint experiences in day-to-day movements. Good luck with the hypermobility quest. Routines like this pre-run glute activation sequence are great for priming key muscles before you run.

On the upside, it can mean fewer wrinkles. Before this time, I had pursued answers, with many cl... We were in a car accident several months ago. We all know someone who is super-flexible, who can almost effortlessly perform the splits while most of us can only look on in awe.

Despite receiving treatment, Miss Blackwood said she still had problems with her health and it was not until last August that she was diagnosed with the secondary condition PoTS. Actress Cherylee Houston has EDS Type III/Hypermobility. Although I’ve done a great deal of youth coaching in the past (mainly in football) – to be honest, I haven’t worked with any truly hypermobile kids. You will, of course, find that some forms of exercise are more or less stressful on the hypermobile body than others. UK Singer Myleene often shows off her hyper mobile elbows. Love the Kinnetic Revolution materials = thank you. ( Log Out /  ( Log Out /  Brain fog strikes again. She is Coronation Street's first full time disabled actress. When any athlete suddenly finds an increase in the available range of motion at a joint, for example as an acute effect of PNF stretching around the hip, sometimes they find that they lack the neuromuscular ability to maintain dynamic control throughout this newly increased range of motion. Thanks again for the work you’ve put into this. Bowie could pop his elbows and put his hands against himself backward.

If your joints are already a little wiggly, the pool is an excellent place to work out. “I’m lucky I don’t face life-threatening complications like some EDS patients; in fact I’ve found that it’s been the simplest things like eating a high salt diet and pilates that have made the biggest difference. I did a Google search on whether Taylor Swift has Ehlers-Danlos or not and this page came up as a link.I agree with your assumptions about Michael Jackson (and a few other actors/actresses who get addicted to pain meds) and Taylor Swift being closer to Marfan's but I still think she has either it or EDS. I have Ehlers Danlos Type 3, which is HMS with some bonus pain and autonomic nervous system problems. Enter your email address to get news story updates. That journey was mostly taken alone as I didn’t find a specialist who will understand enough what was going on. Feel free to share with my name. But she said it has not affected her job as an MP and added: “Even while I have been going through the process of getting diagnosed and learning how to manage the condition, I have been a marginal seat MP representing my constituents here in Oxford including major campaigns for A34 funding and flood defences…so I am even more confident now I have it under control.”, It would be nice to see celebrities with EDS do something high profile to raise awareness, Martina from Eat Your Kimchi on YouTube. Many people believe Houdini had EDS, and that hypermobility would have allowed many of his tricks. However, there is a significant population of athletes where the problem isn’t too little motion being available, but too much motion. It is believed although not proven that historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln and Anne Frank suffered from connective tissue disorder,Marfan Syndrome.