Writing & Research

Many of us grew up with a friend—or maybe we were that friend—who could bend their fingers back to their wrist or effortlessly drop into

Living with hypermobility in a world that extols the virtues of stretching can feel like you’ve been given a different operating manual for your own body. It’s a world where yoga gurus and fitness influencers preach the gospel of flexibility, leaving those of us with an excess of it feeling lost, misunderstood, and often, in more pain than when we started.