Stabilizing The Hip - Exercises For Hypermobility and EDS Relief 

just discovered your channel through a desperate youtube search to try and find some new resources for hypermobility, and i just want to say thank you. the two videos of yours i have watched have already given me more validation than many doctors visits. god bless

If any of my doctors had been HALF as knowledgeable, kind, and helpful as you are, I wouldn't still be searching RU-vid for relief in my 30s. THANK YOU!! 🥰 xo

As a former college athlete that was finally diagnosed with EDS, these hypermobility videos have been so helpful! For years, I've been doing workouts that only exacerbated my back and joint pain and now I can finally start focusing on workouts that will help me out. Thanks so much!

Just learned about hypermobility and realizing I’ve been doing my exercises all wrong and lived with a looot of pain. Thanks so much for sharing this.

Oh my u will never be out of work in this field especially with ur level of empathy and understanding of mechanics.

Finally, someone speaking from my own life experiences, right down to the complete overhaul of mental health management, nutrition, and consulting physiotherapists, osteopaths, kinesiologists, acupuncturists, naturopaths, massage therapists...this journey has gone over a decade and I've never heard of these exercises before. The knowledge gap is real when it comes to concrete help. I've been working my shoulder and neck stability for three years and it's changed my life, but my hips and core are fragile as a bird. All this to say - please keep making videos, the community needs them ❤ and thank you ❤

hyper mobility and anxiety??? my jaw dropped... How is this real??? I am super hyper mobile in my hips and struggle daily with pain and movement and I have such bad anxiety... I'm so glad I found this video! i feel like I know myself better, thank you!!!

This made me cry. I love strength training but there are weeks where I feel extremely unstable and then injure myself, which is extremely frustrating because movement is the thing that makes me feel the happiest in the world. Everything you said makes so much intuitive sense. I was wondering why a lot of traditional physical therapy was helping while healing but stopped helping once I began training again and it’s because of this issue of instability that many people already have in their joints.

Wow. Not surprised to hear you say that about anxiety. Hypermobility is a common comorbidity of ADHD and Autism. I’m both and also hypermobile. My whole family is hypermobile. Runs on both sides. As does ADHD and Autism. 😂 I didn’t have a chance. 😂

Omg my knee and hip does that. I was told I have hypermobilty from docs but that's been it. I've felt depressed and weak since, and given up weight training during to pain. Thanks for this video. Makes so much sense and I dont feel alone!

I have moderate-severe hypermobility (Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder / basically hEDS) and it's so difficult to find videos that are succinct, make sense and really touch on the real life problems for us that might not seem important to others. Especially with neurodivergence (Autism, ADHD etc) being likely with hypermobility, having content that is clear and explanatory is so important - as well as validating. Please make more hypermobility content 😢❤

Thank you. In the two videos I have watched you have been more helpful and considerate than so many healthcare professionals. I haven't been pain free since before I medically retired from the navy, but for a few seconds just now I felt RIGHT again! I am exactly as you described so I probably will never comment again lol but I wanted to express my gratitude for the gift you gave me today...you are an amazing individual sir!

6:42 tips on stabilizing and mind/muscle connection before lunging,etc. 9:16 glute & core activation exercise with hip circle band 12:19 core stabilizer exercise for TA

I know its been said but thank you so much for these videos. EDS (plus POTS & MCAS) former athlete here, I played sports my entire life up until getting sick and was a trisport all-season athlete for several years. I miss it so much but I haven't been able to work out almost at all since diagnoses. We are told we need to but not shown how to do it safely and effectively. These videos are so huge for me and so many other people. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

Yes!!!! right hip is terrible! lower back pain now too! and I feel as my two legs are being pulled out of their sockets from the moment I wake up! Thanks SOOOOO MUCH! You have described me to the dot! I used to hike alone in foreign countries and now i have not been able to leave my house for almost 6 years!

I got diagnosed with hypermobile joints syndrome today and since I started getting my symptoms 13 years ago you and my doctor are the first people who seem to understand what I'm going through. I've tried normal exercise and I always ended up crying because of the pain and giving up, and all the people around me just thought I was lazy and pretty much told me that my joints hurt because I didn't have the willpower to exercise. Thank you so much, I feel seen

I love what you mentioned about accepting a diagnosis but not a prognosis outcome❤

I've known about my hyper mobility for years and I don't know why I never looked for help with my specific condition. You are right. I can exercise like everyone else. I've been through physical therapy and I was never taught to do something specific to my ability to overstretch. This video was really helpful. Thank you and I'm a new follower.

I'm so glad that I found this video, my hip is into subluxations. Thanks.

Many EDSers have hypermobile SI joints (my number one problem). Any exercises to address this issue? Love your detailed explanations!!

Just these exercises have improved my quality of life. I haven’t been able to find a professional near me that understands hypermobility so PT exercises have helped very little. Thank you for sharing your knowledge! I am starting to understand my body and how to move because of you.

I know this is two years old, but I’m so so grateful and would love to see more videos like this if possible. I found a love for kung fu, but my hip stability was so bad that my knees were in pain every day. I still mess up sometimes, but this video gave me so much hope, so much motivation to understand my body better, and now I can properly practice the art without pain and possible injury.

I can only express a bit of how grateful I am for quality hEDS content 💖

You were the first person online to start doing something abt this hypermobiliy issue. You and Jeannie di bon should join hands in helping hEDS pple.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO!!! I lost MAJOR intuitive understanding of my body because of serious (unintentional) weight loss throughout quarantine. because I lost a lot of the muscle mass I had built over my years in college, my joints have been a lot more ‘loosely goosey’ which has caused a lot of pain and mobility issues. None of the physical therapists I’ve seen can quite understand what I mean when I say that my joints don’t ‘sit right’ in their sockets. It feels validating to know that I’m not ‘overthinking it’ when I ask about weight placement/biomechanics specifics, because my hips definitely overcompensate when trying to do the strengthening exercises they’ve given me. You’re the first person that has effectively explained how my body works and for the first time I’ve finally been able to activate my core without hurting my hips!!!!

I suffer from hypermobile ehlers-danlos syndrome, pleaaaase make more training techniques for this! It helps so much

Thank you. Just realizing that I’m hypermobile… confirmed by my ortho and starting PT this week. My hips are very unstable and many other issues. This video is very helpful!

I just turned 40 and my hip hurts all day every day. I've had x-rays and nothing is structurally wrong but I am diagnosed as hypermobile so I assume it's all my muscles trying to keep my hips together. Thank you for this, I'm going to start doing these exercises and see if they help xx

ugh, I got a massage for my birthday a few years back and it screwed me up a bit for months. emphasis on LIGHT massage!!

Thanks for addressing these issues, I definitely have hyper mobility and most of the other co-occurring problems. I’ve been trying so many things to deal with the pain that’s preventing me from being as fit as I want

I know these videos are a few years old, but I hope you've kept going on them. There are a lot of us just figuring out we're hypermobile and what that means for our exercise routines. Jeannie Di Bon does some great work in this area, but I appreciate your information as well! Thank you so much!

Thank you! Great to hear from someone with hEDS and find some safe exercises and explanations! Keep em coming! 🎉

Fantastic way to deliver education on hypermobility. Thanks for sharing this content and your exercises! Love your philosophy around movement.

thanks you. this was validating as hell. I've been to see a doctor so many times and they've been very unhelpful and made me feel crazy. thank you for making empowering content.

I needed to find you!! Thank you for being here, I had PT tell me to stop stretching so much but didn't emphasize on correcting positioning and strengthening for hypermobility. I have been missing so many pieces to my healthcare. THANK YOU!!!

Love it, thank you. Yes please do a whole course on this!!

Great vid. Please more hyper mobile videos please. Best advice I’ve had.

Your an absolute fricken legend, cheers bro!!!

Just kneeling 'right' got my hip in place!! 🤯

Thank you so much for thinking of us hyper-mobile folks!!! This was very helpful.

Can you keep doing videos on hypermobility? They are so helpful!

Why is this so true?! I have this and Crohn's and apparently anxiety 🤷

This video was perfect. I haven't been in PT for a while so I'm out of practice but my hip was wonky. I tried things I could remember but nothing was working. But fixing my knee and working the muscles fixed it immediately.

Thank you so much for this video. You've no idea how long I've been looking for something this useful for my hypermobility 🙂

This is one of the most helpful resources I’ve seen for how to live and work with the body I have. Thank you! This gives me so much hope

It really made the difference, I feel better, it saved my life after months in pain.

SOOO glad i found this channel! Much needed tips.

Just everything you say here!! Thank you so much because just understanding my body and symptoms has helped so much with my emotional and stress levels!! Your videos are great for helping me understand how MY body moves vs others I’m around

I can't tell you how helpful your videos are! There are so few good explanations out there - it's brilliant how you demonstrate your points and describe the physiology. I have done too much yoga in the past which has not helped my hypermobility! I will now commit to your recommendations. Thank you so much!

Wow, this is so good. My left knee is so unstable, I hyperextended it in HS and dislocated the left knee a few years later. So now 30 years later it is just unstable and it doesn’t feel safe. I will be using this video often.

If only the average GP knew what you knew. Thank you for your amazing and life saving videos.

I love your energy man! I've been looking at videos for hypermobility and well I want to thank you not only for making videos to treat this condition but also for being so direct and keeping my attention. Thank you so so much

THANK GOD I FOUND YOU THANK U SO MUCH. MAKE MUCH MUCH MORE VIDEOS 😭🙏🏼

THANK YOU FOR THIS

Just looking into hypermobility movement and shoot. No wonder 10 years of yoga didn't entirely and sometimes actually made parts of my body worse. Thank you for these! (Also there's a huge ADHD/ASD connection with hypermobility so love your points about looking at things holistically)

Super sad you don’t make content any more dude these hyper mobility videos are super valuable

man where have you been all my life 🥲 whoever came up with "double jointed" party tricks owes me some new joints!

Thank you so much ❤ I have been in search for material like these for years, been to lots of PT and doctors and none could explain me what you just said. I got emotional watching this video. You are helping lots of people that feel lost, and therefore making this world a better place. This is meaningful work, congratulations 🙏 Please do a full course about these, I am in. Bless you :)

Thank you for your hypermobility content. Going through this is like whack a mole, There is always a stability issue or pain.

Also, I've shared your channel to a FB EDS group that I'm part of! Thank you Andy!!

These videos are the best I've seen on hypermobility. Really inspiring. Thank you.

I cannot thank you enough! I just found your channel and I'm curious to know if you have a video on safe sitting and sleep positions for people with hypermobility and/or EDS? After all these years, my doctor said she thinks I have EDS! I sure wish I had known sooner, as I've done some damage at 44 years of age 😂 but for the first time in years, I felt relief in my hips! Thank you! ❤

Thanks so much after four reps on the second exercise my left hip pop and pain went

It’s actually very common for people who are neurodivergent to be hyper mobile, have gut issues, and other health problems.

Bro, can you pls do more Videos for Hypermobility? Love it and it helps!

🏆You are a Godsend!! I couldn’t agree more with your advice- and I love non traditional. I need to go back to my naturopath- she does acupuncture and I fight how calming it was to my nervous system. Thanks for the reminders!

Great! Stabilize not stretch. As you were talking about your clients with all those issues, it sounds like over stretching in many different directions causing all those anxiety and stress issues. Stabilizing advice seems to apply there as well. Excellent holistic overview - body is just a reflection of the balance of our thoughts

Thank you, for what are you doing... ❤️

Thank you, very insightful and very well explained. Good exercises!

Dude thanks to you my lower back stopped hurting instantaniously.. can you please make more videos on stabilizing for hypermobility? Ankles and Elbows maybe?

Thank you so much for sharing. Awesome channel with quality content. Liked & Subscribed! Going to share this with my family too as we’re all hypermobile in some way or another

Thank you so much! This was very helpful. Your guidance is easy to follow and you obviously understand the condition. There aren't a lot of resources out there for us so please keep making videos!

Thankyou so much !!! You are such a big help for the hyper mobile crowd as there is no information out there on how to fix the pain

Searched for this now cause i am in so much pain so often and i've found ways of moving My hips and exercises that Kinda help but I neeeeeedd more

Im hypermobile definitely in my shoulder, and elbows. Never thought my hip could be too

Amazing, I could listen to you talk all day, man! Thank you!

So unbelievably helpful! I understand do much more now! Thankyou!!! From Australia 🇦🇺

This information is so needed! Thank you for sharing this! Looking forward to more videos. If you could show yoga poses for hyper mobility issues that would be appreciated. Thanks again

Hey man I'm 18 and my entire family has ehlers danlos, I genuinely haven't known how to physically take care of my body for 18 years and I've just reached a point where I'm desperate to build up my body and learn how to move properly so I'm not in horrific pain when I do shit I want to do. For the past two weeks I've been consistently pushing past my pain threshold and watching some of your other videos I realized need to change

Thank you sooooo much , God bless you

Wow! it's really difficult to do what you suggest. The major issue I find, aside from the awful knee pain, is my feet not cooperating (I got very bad valgus foot) I still get the "wiggle" because my body compensates for the foot arches falling in.

I feel like you described exactly what's happening to me, but my "shifty hip" as i call it started in yoga class. I've got hip snapping syndrome on my left hip which has calmed down a lot since i stopped doing yoga, but still trying to find the "right" exercises to restable myself.

Thank you so much for this video. I have such a hard time finding good exercise information, with taking my joint hypermobility into consideration. You explanations and encouragement was so helpful.

Totally understand the light Massage when having hypermobiliy and also that it’s soooo hard to get any help for this condition from western medicine

1:20 well yes, I'm introverted autistic adhd and have quite a bad social anxiety and my hypermobile body pain aren't helping

Your videos about this topic are so good. I would love to see more videos from you. I love your sight on hypermobility. Hope that you will continue to make contant about it, because your videos help me so much. And there is not much to find on youtube that is nearly as informativ.

Thank you so much!

Your tha best. Thank you

I got emotional watching this video. I feel so silly, but all the other comments are also really making me feel seen. ❤ From ages 3 to about 17 I was a martial artist. My instructors would say something I never understood: “just because you can throw your leg up in the air and do pretty kicks doesn’t mean you’re doing it right. You need to build the muscles around your hips.” I was notorious for somehow doing a roundhouse without pivoting the kicking leg and from an early age after taking a walk that was more than a mile I would get this intense grinding feeling in my hip that I still don’t know how to correct. They used to call me Roadkill for how I’d do the splits and lay down flat like the Loony Tunes Roadrunner after he got run over. Lol. I’m nearly 30 and am in pain so often I forget it isn’t normal. At this point I’m just trying to mentally work myself up to exercising again after lots of inactivity. I feel like I’ve lost a lot of strength due to avoiding things that cause pain, and with that is a surprising amount of confidence gone too. Thank you so much for your videos. 😊

a big thank you from brazil❤🙌

Thank you so much for covering EDS!!!!!!❤️

The list of personalities traits you listed are strikingly similar to what lots of neurodivergent fold experience. Like Autistics... 🙂 Gut issues, sensory deprivation, hmmmm

So much needed information 😊

Amazing thank you so much for this🙌🏼 best core exercise I’ve tried, I have so much pain with my hip and knee also the shoulder😓 great channel and advice!

Omg finally some Content on this ! Thank you 🙏🏻

thank u

Re co-morbidity - we now have evidence to show that hypermobile-type Ehlers Danlos Syndrome is very common for Neurodivergent people. Most of my fellow autistics have hypermobile “hip issues”

Sir can u plz upload more videos on hypermobility exercises for leg... especially knees?. I am 20 yrs old and my knees really hurt..can't do exercises which I used to do for my stiffness and it makes it more hurt. ..every time I try to move m scared to straighten up my left leg..can't lock it properly..it pops now everytime I move. ..have to put pillow while sleeping..can't study bvz I don't know what to do with my knee..doesn't matter which position I put them in...doesn't work out...did physiotherapy but all they told is stretching..and while stretching it got worse....my rheumatologist told me that it's hypermobility that I have...that aggrevated my arthritis.... It's a req if u can tell more hypermobile knee joint exercises..please.. Bcz of this no matter how many times I do meditation .. breathing exercises..I really can't relax..cz I have to study and I can't sit on chair properly ..

80 seconds in and I feel SEEN

OMG!!! thank you! I told one of the trainers are the gym about your channel ❤️❤️❤️🥰🥰🥰🥰 also I'm doing this right now 😁 yes! Nutrition is huge, a number of people with EDS follow the keto diet 1. For gut health 2. It helps to reduce inflammation. Also, dry needling is hugely beneficial