The hypermobile patient in your clinic: why standard rehab often falls short – and what works instead
26 Nov 2026
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- Recognise the hidden caseload. Why a significant share of your chronic-pain, recurrent-injury and "non-specific" patients are hypermobile – and the simple screening cues that surface them.
- Understand why conventional rehab can backfire. What the evidence reveals about iatrogenic injury in hypermobility, and why a strength-and-load-first model is mismatched to the EDS/HSD body.
- Apply a nervous-system-first framework. The principles of the Integral Movement Method – regulation, safety, and proprioception before stability and strength – and the pain-science rationale behind the sequence.
- Leave with evidence-based solution pathways. Peer-reviewed outcomes for a hypermobility-specific approach (including reduced fear of movement).