Hypermobility Posture Guide
Gain awareness and control of your posture in order to protect your hypermobile joints, reduce pain flares and subluxations.
This FREE guide is provided to everyone on the waitlist for my March 2025 round of Ground Control, intro to stability and pain management course for hypermobility.
Hypermobile humans have unique challenges when it comes to posture.
- If you have symptomatic hypermobility, learning to support your posture can make a big difference in symptoms….and quickly!
- Unfortunately there are a lot incorrect assumptions made by looking at someone's posture, especially if you're hypermobile.
- For example, has anyone ever told you that because of your anterior pelvic tilt you should stretch your hip flexors?
- Or told you that you should stretch your pectoral muscles to "fix" your forward shoulders?
- But yet, you’ve done all the hip flexor and pec stretching in the world and nothing changed? It happens far too often!
- With this guide, you’ll learn important tests to be able to correctly analyze your own posture, and understand what to do that will actually help.
Learn the real reasons you might have "Poor Posture" and do something about it!
As a Physical Therapist and Pilates instructor with hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (hEDS), I've experienced the challenges and myths when it comes to Posture...
Posture isn't the same for hypermobile humans.
This is why I created this evidence based Hypermobility Posture Guide, to help you assess the real reasons behind your posture and make adjustments so that you can feel better!
One of the most common things I hear from my hypermobile clients is that they don't know where to start...
In order to avoid that cycle, there's a few essential muscles we need to understand how to use to improve our posture, but first we need to assess what the real reasons might be behind our posture.
Possible Explanations for postural issues include:
- Decreased proprioception (joint position sense)
- Decreased endurance and strength of postural muscles
- Neurological protective guarding
- Neurological inhibition of postural stabilizers due to pain
This guide is for YOU!
When you learn a solid foundation of posture, an entire world of movement options can become possible with less pain, fewer flare ups and subluxations.
Hi! I'm Dr. Melissa Koehl
I'm a Physical Therapist and Pilates instructor, and I live with hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (hEDS).
Growing up, I was a high level gymnast until I experienced a career ending stress fracture to my lower back. This was not surprising since I was the bendiest of all the gymnasts I was competing with, and often got extra points for "tricks" that showcased my flexibility.
After leaving gymnastics, I started to experience even more pain that intuitively I felt it was important to build back the type of strength I had as a gymnast. This alone wasn't quite enough to manage my symptoms, so I also studied Pilates and Yoga, which added another layer of understanding and awareness.
As I studies each of these exercise methods in detail, I learned my body was different than others and I had to do things in a different way to avoid injury.
As a physical therapist, I thankfully learned the rehabilitation and pain management tools I needed to address pain and injuries as they came up (which they sure did! Ever get seriously injured by a massage? Me too...)
I understand the struggle, frustration and despair of hypermobility and chronic illness. Thankfully, there are things you can do that REALLY help, and it's my passion to share what I've learned with my fellow zebras in order to feel strong, stable and in control of their bodies.
What people are saying...
Natalie Conway
“The Hypermobility Posture guide is awesome…..My family members are accountability buddies for me at family gatherings and events because I have a tendency to sit, stand, brace, bend and twist in funky ways because I am more tuned into the people around me than my positioning. Just this weekend at my niece's shower I hear her say to me, “Auntie, should you really be sitting like that?”
Elena K
"Melissa is a physical therapist and Pilates instructor of unrivaled quality. She is incredibly knowledgeable about the body and mind, and can present a broad array of solutions for you to experiment with. Melissa keeps up with her practice, continuously educating herself to provide the best to her patients. On top of this, she is so generous with her time and wisdom - she clearly cares deeply about her patients and is willing to go above and beyond for their wellbeing. This is her calling, and it shows."
Linda G
"If you need an experienced and overall phenomenal PT (and not to mention a very cool person), to help you...she's IT. I give her the highest recommendation possible. For anyone, but especially for those with hypermobility and related issues."
Wendy Wanger, EDS specialist PT
"OH. MY. GOSH!!! I just saw your posture guide and it is FANTASTIC! I would love to refer patients your way."
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Hypermobile Posture Guide for the Ground Control March 2025 Waitlist
The Hypermobiltiy Posture guide is an important first step that I created for everyone that is on the waitlist for my Ground Control course.
There is no obligation to be on this list. I mean, I would love if you joined us! But even if you don’t, I created this guide to be a valuable stand alone tool that is packed with info that my patients and clients have found to be incredibly helpful and every hypermobile human should know.
But if you want to dive deeper and learn more, on the Ground Control waitlist, you’ll get even more important hypermobility related educational info as well as access to early registration and discounts! We start Mon March 24, and early bird sign up for the waitlist will start Mon March 10.
