What is hEDS and hypermobility?
Conditions where the connective tissue is more lax than typical. The joints move beyond their normal range. The muscles work harder to provide stability. The pelvis is one of the places this often shows up.
In plain language.
Hypermobility spectrum disorder (HSD) and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) are conditions where the connective tissue is more lax than typical. The joints move beyond their normal range, the muscles have to work harder to provide stability, and the pelvis is one of the areas this often shows up.
Pelvic floor PT for hypermobile patients is different from standard pelvic floor work. The pelvis does not need to be loosened. It needs to be stabilized, retrained, and given a system that can hold itself together at the loads daily life requires.
How it shows up.
Hypermobile patients often experience:
- SI joint dysfunction or instability, sometimes with audible clicking
- Pelvic instability that worsens with prolonged sitting or standing
- Persistent low back or hip pain that has not responded to manual-only care
- Postpartum recovery that takes much longer than expected
- Pelvic organ prolapse at younger ages than typical
- Pain that moves around, hard to pin to one structure
What makes our treatment different.
Stability work, not stretching. Most patients with hypermobility have had years of well-meaning treatment that focused on stretching, which made the problem worse. We build motor control instead.
Coordinated with our hypermobility program. The pelvic floor is one piece of a larger system in hypermobile patients. We share care within the clinic and with your rheumatologist or geneticist when needed.
Longer courses, slower pace. Hypermobile bodies make change at a different timeline, and the work is to build durable patterns, not quick relief.
Begin with a closer look.
Book a 60-minute evaluation, or call to talk through where you are first.