You seem to be hypermobile, do you know what that means? No. Do you know what kind of things can come with that? No.
Typical start, when talking first time with a patient who has hypermobility. Quite often they have been visiting so many heath care professionals because of musculoskeletal and other problems without having a long lasting effects. Hypermobility is frequently combined with sensitive personality, needs to perform well and many times these people are really take care about their family or school or work or everything. Under these circumstances symptoms are quite often ignored and put under the stress. "I'm just like this, always stressing things...I always have this pain with me...This headache is normal to me..." Of course these feelings are true, but your body is your own, your best friend, I hope. Life consists pieces, which are sometimes easy to fit and sometime really hard to handle. Awareness can be a great help when solving the puzzle. It is much more easier to put the right piece into the right place when you know what you are looking for. Good strategies are also really beneficial, with a really hard puzzle you should start from the corners and sides. I really know that from experience. If you are trying to do a tree in the middle of the puzzle, you have to have an idea what is your goal - what kind of tree you are doing. Otherwise your loose your nerves and it takes ages to solve the puzzle. Quite often these same principles works in our body. Become conscious of yourself, undestand and solve the puzzle you want - starting from the easiest pieces, maybe.
Is it a problem to be hypermobile? No. When the body in under control and the compensation patterns doesn't give you any pain or movement disorders. Situation is going to be problematic if pain is starting to affect your everyday life. At this point I have a permission to quote one of my patients email to my. Her example is just one amongst many others, but the message is clear. You have to search for the answer and then help yourself as much as you can, persistency is rewarded. Honor your best friend and solve your own puzzle with peace.
I can know work normally. I'm no longer thinking while I'm working that is it starting again and am I getting worse again. Is tomorrow going to be bad or even worse? I feel that nowadays I can concentrate when I'm working and I feel I can have new challenges in my life. Before the treatments and exercises I just hope that I can handle amongst the other people, I was coping so and so and my concentration was really poor. Tolerance to cope was bad and I really hated sitting behind the desk, althought standing wasn't any better choice.
Nowadays I can go to a concert and I don't have to think that my legs are killing me and ruining my experience of joy. My husband and children also are very happy about the situation because now I can do things with them. Before I was irritated so easily that I just couldn't do things with my family in my freetime. Now I know how much the pain was effecting to my life, I got used to pain and my limitations through years. I was thinking that this is who I am.
Before we met I was inspected by 2 general doctors, neurologists, physiatric and orthopedic medical doctors and couple of physiotherapists. And more to mention 3 chiropractics and few alternative medicine healers. The situation remained more or less the same and I lost my hope to get better, ever. There was so many years of pain and movement disorders behind me already.
Treament, learning and training process led my through thinking, what things has to be done, what I can do myself to my body. I just don't have that bad back which is giving me the limits. I understood that I have certain properties in me, which requires more care than "normal" body, I have hypermobility and I have to construct my body different way to be strong. I have to be really precise and remember to do things with thought!
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