Introducing the Hypermobility Handbook

A 10 page e-book for physiotherapists new to hypermobility rehab that will give you the resources necessary to get started addressing pain, dizziness, fatigue, and joint stability with your hypermobile clients, eliminating the need to research journal articles for hours.

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Imagine After The E-Book:

  • You feel confident that you have the knowledge to reduce pain, dizziness, joint stability, and fatigue.

  • You are no longer chasing pain using manual therapy and needling.

  • Your clients feel empowered to address their own symptoms using the knowledge you have provided them.

  • You have a handout to give your clients to make it fast and easy to educate your clients.

  • You feel at ease when you see someone with EDS show up on your schedule.

The Promise:

By purchasing this ebook, you will have the resources necessary to get started addressing pain, dizziness, fatigue, and joint stability with your hypermobile clients, eliminating the need to research journal articles for hours.

How The E-Book Works

This ebook educates clinicians on how to help hypermobile people reduce pain and dizziness while also teaching them how to feel more stable and energized by incorporating easy lifestyle habits. These are the essential tips you need to know and teach before beginning an exercise program with hypermobility. It provides you with the education that you can review on your own time and at your own pace.

What’s Actually Included

10 pages of Hypermobility Treatment Education
This e-book is packed with lifestyle tips and exercises to address the most common symptoms associated with hypermobility including pain, dizziness, joint instability, muscle weakness, and fatigue.

3 Joint Stability Videos
Learn exercises for how to teach joint stability in the shoulders, hips, and knees.

1 Nervous System Regulation Video
Learn an exercise you can prescribe to help with dizziness as well as regulation of autonomic nervous system function.

Handout
A handout you can personalize and give directly to your hypermobile clients to save you time.

4 Principles for Exercise Prescription
Learn the fundamental principles you can use to adapt any exercise program for hypermobility rehabilitation.

Cathy’s Hypermobility Knowledge
All the information Cathy wishes physiotherapists knew regarding hypermobility rehab.

Contents

✔️ Dizziness & Dysautonomia
Dizziness in hypermobility is a result of dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system. Learn 7 different ways to help regulate the autonomic nervous system including 1 video of an easy eye exercise you prescribe to clients to do anywhere.

✔️ Pain Management
Pain in hypermobility comes from multiple different sources. In this section, we go through three different strategies you can start a treatment plan with to help reduce a client’s daily experience of pain. This section is not about strengthening but what other types of exercises can you do before strengthening.

✔️ Joint Stability
Learn the difference between joint stability versus strengthening. Learn how to stabilize 3 of the most hypermobile joints: shoulders, hips, and knees including detailed videos.

✔️ Muscle Strengthening
Learn where to get started with designing a strength training program for hypermobility.

✔️ Fatigue Management
Fatigue can be a result of many different factors in hypermobility. Learn strategies you can educate your clients about to improve their sleep, how to pace themselves with fatigue and a few tricks to improve their energy overall.

Meet Your Instructor - Cathy Walker

Cathy is a physiotherapist turned educator with over 10 years of experience working with hypermobile clients.

Growing up as a competitive dancer, Cathy always thought that having a lot of movement to her joints was “normal.” However, after years of struggling with injuries it wasn’t until after having her son that she decided to investigate further. With researching connective tissue disorders and applying the principles she was learning in the research, most of the symptoms she had been struggling with were improving.

Cathy started reading more hypermobility books, research, and taking courses but often they lacked a practical compentent of what to do in clinic. That is why Cathy strives to inform clinicians how to treat hypermobility practically with techniques you can try right away.

See what others have to say about the Hypermobility Solutions Course

  • Jalisa Said:

    “This course definitely changed how I’m going to practice (probably more than any other course), my assessment skills have improved significantly allowing me to better screen for hypermobility, which ultimately completely changes your treatment style!! It was such an amazing course. I also loved the format of it being once a week and only 1.5 to 2 hours long! It allowed me to apply the knowledge I learned throughout each week! I find most courses too long in duration and my attention span is lost or its information overload and I end up retaining only a fraction of what they’ve taught us. I felt like I could really apply the material well.”

  • Judith Said:

    “Cathy Walker taught an excellent course, full of useful information on working with those with hypermobility or hEDS. She knew and communicated the information clearly and personably with lots of demos, references, individual attention, helpful homework and time to integrate. Her knowledge rests on personal experience with hypermobility which really grounds her teaching and commitment. Thank you, Cathy.”

  • Sarah Said:

    “Cathy is an excellent teacher and wealth of knowledge when it comes to hypermobility and working with people dealing with the complexities of HSD and EDS. This course was a great review of some of the basics AND I learned a tonne of new information, techniques, and strategies for how to better serve this population in my practice (as well as help myself manage my own health as someone living with HSD)! I would highly recommend this course for anyone working in healthcare or the movement professions - whether you know it or not, you are working with hypermobile folks and the information you will learn in this course will help you serve them, and all of your clients for that matter, better!”

  • Nicole Said:

    “The hypermobility course is a great resource for anyone wanting to specialize in hypermobility disorders and common comorbidities. Cathy is a wealth of knowledge! I learned a lot about assessment tools, stabilization, exercise prescription, and nervous system regulation. She includes many handouts and resources to use with clients that are very patient friendly. I really enjoyed this course! As an OT, it helped bridge some gaps for me regarding exercises and I highly recommend it!”

Who exactly is this e-book for?

  • Sport or private practice physiotherapist who is noticing some hypermobile clients on their case load.

  • Practitioners who’s only hypermobility education came from school.

  • Physiotherapists who has clients with dizziness, and fatigue that is complicating their rehab.

  • Any movement professional (physical therapists, occupational therapists, chiropractors, pilates instructors, personal trainers, kinesiologists)

  • You know that education is an important part of the rehab process and use it as a treatment tool.

You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  • This is designed for movement/health professional that work with hypermobile clients.

    Hypermobile clients may include Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder or hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos.

    Movement and Health Professionals include Physiotherapists, Chiropractors, Massage Therapists, Kinesiologists, Personal Trainers, Osteopaths, and Naturopaths. It is the individual practitioner’s responsibility to remain within their scope of practice.

  • Regular price is $97 CDN ( ~$68 USD)

  • All the information is written from a clinician's perspective. However, if you would like to purchase this guide to incorporate into your treatment plan with the guidance of your physician or healthcare team you may do so. Please keep in mind this is not personal medical advice and is for informational purposes only.

  • This is a digital product only. I do not mail anything to you. Therefore you will be sent a digital pdf. However, you can print the book after purchase.

  • No. This is not an exercise program. This includes a series of habit or lifestyle changes to educate your clients on so they can manage their symptoms. It also includes some principles to use when designing your treatment plan in order to have more success.

  • Some of the information is commonly agreed upon and widely available information. It is important that we cover that information first. However, I also include treatment principles I have discovered from my practice, nervous system exercises, 3 exercise videos for joint stability and a handout you can give to clients.

  • There are no refunds since it is a digital product and can’t be taken back once delivered.

The Price

$97 CDN (~$68US)

Did you know?!

The truth is that every movement professional is encountering hypermobile people. The unfortunate part is our schooling is just not adequate to provide safe and effective treatment for this population. My goal is to educate the healthcare community so that a hypermobile person can find someone within their city. Do you want to be part of the change? Let’s do this!

You ready to do this?

Got more questions? Email cathy@nestphysiotherapy.com and we'll get back to you ASAP.