Real Life Stories: A Teenager Navigating Her Life With HSD | Finding Your Range Podcast Episode 11

If you think that HSD is a lesser diagnosis or causes less issues than hEDS, please listen to this latest interview with Rachel, a 17 year old who is beginning to navigate life with her new HSD condition.

Rachel is a senior in high school with interests in piano, language learning, ballet, and pretty much anything related to the study of the body and movement in general.

Growing up, she was very physically active, and both a serious ballet and piano student. She first noticed symptoms of chronic pain and fatigue around 11 years old, starting in mostly upper extremities and gradually becoming widespread. By the age of 14, she had stopped all physical activity and started having difficulty accomplishing daily necessities, including school work and simple things like brushing teeth or combing hair. Early last year, after many visits to different doctors she was diagnosed with Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder.

Rachel states that Movement therapy has given her her life back. She is in the process of slowly rehabbing her body. But, the combination of this experience and Jeannie's in depth understanding of the hypermobile body has already been life changing.

Because of these experiences, Rachel has become fascinated about learning about the inner workings of the body. She is passionate about learning more how retraining habitual movement patterns can work wonders toward getting rid of chronic pain.

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