Preparing for Competitions: A Round Table Discussion
For most artistic athletes, competition is a part of life. Whether you’re a dancer, skater, gymnast, or cheerleader chances are you’re...
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Hypermobility Specialist
Blog
Linda Bluestein, M.D.
- Dec 15, 2022
Preparing for Surgery with Linda Bluestein, MD
Hypermobility disorders can lead to health complications that may require surgery. Joint hypermobility and associated conditions can...
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- Dec 5, 2022
“Hope Dies Last”
By: Laura Fernando The diagnostic odyssey to a Ehlers-Danlos syndromes diagnosis is often challenging enough. Add onto that conditions...
Linda Bluestein, M.D.
- Dec 1, 2022
Alleviating Anxiety with Jo-Anne La Flèche
Dance and other performing arts are, by nature, stressful. Stress can easily develop into anxiety, which is exponentially more common in...
Linda Bluestein, M.D.
- Nov 17, 2022
Optimizing Immunity with Kristin Koskinen, RDN
As the weather changes and schedules become busier, staying healthy can feel like a huge challenge. Artistic athletes may struggle to...
Linda Bluestein, M.D.
- Nov 4, 2022
Cultivating Resiliency with Jazz Bynum
As a young dancer, Jazz Bynum enjoyed the benefits of being “bendy”. Later, she experienced more than her fair share of injuries but it...
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- Nov 2, 2022
A Bendy Body and Boundaries: The Relationship between Hypermobility and Setting Healthy Limits
By Erica Hornthal, LCPC, BC-DMT Boundaries can be difficult for a lot of us with bendy bodies. Why is that? What is the significance? ...
Linda Bluestein, M.D.
- Oct 26, 2022
Managing Mast Cell Pain with Linda Bluestein, MD
Mast cell disorders are prevalent in the hypermobile population, but can often go undiagnosed. Persistent pain can be initiated and...
Linda Bluestein, M.D.
- Oct 13, 2022
Habits and Hypermobility: Tips for improving your quality of life with small tweaks to your day
Is your quality of life reduced due to hypermobility? Do you find it difficult to incorporate and sustain new lifestyle changes and...
Linda Bluestein, M.D.
- Oct 7, 2022
Creating a New Hypermobility Assessment Tool with Aiko Callahan, DPT, and Stephanie Greenspan, DPT
Hypermobility is far more prevalent in dancers, circus performers and other aesthetic athletes. While some hypermobile artistic athletes...
Linda Bluestein, M.D.
- Sep 23, 2022
Unlocking jaw pain with Leslie Russek, DPT, PhD
Jaw pain affects a relatively large percentage of the general population, but is even more problematic for those on the hypermobility...
Linda Bluestein, M.D.
- Sep 8, 2022
Moving fearlessly with Jeannie DiBon
Sustaining Healthy Movement Habits with Jeannie Di Bon Hypermobile athletes and artists are often excellent movers - until they hit “the...
Gavin Larsen
- Aug 29, 2022
Finding Strength Through Fragility: How Hypermobility and EDS Shaped My Dancing Life
Do you get injured more easily than other dancers? Do you struggle with mysterious, seemingly unrelated symptoms like fatigue, poor...
liliankmh
- Jul 24, 2022
Hypermobile? Five principles to make physical therapy work for you!
Why physical therapy sometimes fails Have you tried to improve the symptoms of your hypermobility through exercise, but failed to see...
Linda Bluestein, M.D.
- May 27, 2022
Hype, Hormones and Hypermobility
Do you struggle to understand the complex interplay of hormones and hypermobility? Yep... me too. Meet Cortney Gensemer, Ph.D., a...
Libby Hinsley
- May 15, 2022
Is Yoga Bad for Bendy People?
by Libby Hinsley As a physical therapist, long-time yoga instructor, and person living with hEDS, I get this question a lot. Like so many...
Linda Bluestein, M.D.
- Oct 4, 2021
Reeducating Mast Cells with Anne Maitland, MD, PhD
Mast Cells Mast cells: interesting and mysterious. You can’t be born without them, but they don’t show up in blood tests. They’re found...
Linda Bluestein, M.D.
- May 27, 2021
Highlighting GI Disorders with Leonard Weinstock, M.D.
Gastrointestinal Problems Are you suffering from gastrointestinal distress? Are you somewhere on the hypermobility spectrum? Did you...
Julie Griffis, PT
- May 23, 2021
The difficult to diagnose comorbidity that plagues Ehlers-Danlos syndrome patients
Do you find it challenging to find physicians knowledgeable about Ehlers-Danlos syndromes and hypermobility spectrum disorders? Us too!...
Linda Bluestein, M.D.
- May 6, 2021
Could a hypermobility disorder diagnosis help you?
If you suspect you have a hypermobility disorder such as hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS), hypermobility spectrum disorder...
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