Hypermobility Syndrome: Recognition and Management for Therapists

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Summary: I finally found some answers...
Review: I am a very hypermobile person and have been dealing with various aches and pains as a result of not realizing how to manage this condition for many years so please excuse me if this review turns into a bit of a rant. This book is an excellent resource for people who have been diagnosed as being hypermobile and are looking for a more detailed description of the possible complications that may result and what they can do about it. As the title implies, it is written for physiotherapists and so you may need to look a few things up yourself to really understand it. However, I'm of the opinion that too much information is never a drawback to any book.
If you have been diagnosed as being hypermobile and your doctor doesn't seem to think it's all that important then you need to buy this book. Read this book. Then buy a copy for your doctor and make him/her read it. HMS is an all too common condition that often goes unoticed, untreated, and misunderstood by most doctors and even the patients themselves.
This book won't give you a quick and easy cure for your condition. Such a thing doesn't exist right now. However, if you're like me and you're looking for answers as to why your body feels like it's falling apart when you're living a gernerally healthy life, you will find them in this book. It doesn't gloss over details or assume you're too dumb to understand medical terms. It doesn't tell you it's all in your head or maybe you should just relax and not get so upset over aches and pains. I've heard these things from so called "real" doctors and now I'll think twice before believing everything my doctors say.


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Summary: Hypermobility Syndrome recognition and managment for therapi
Review: People who are are very flexible, that is hypermobile for the most part are very lucy. They are usually very graceful and good at sports but for a small percentage of them flexibility is not so kind. They have on going joint and muscle pains and uncomfortable fealings of stiffness. As they are more flexible than average their movements appear to be in the normal range, but for them this reduced mobility Faced with a person who to all intent and purposes move well, it is hard for the medical profession to take their complaints as seriously as they should. This condition affects women, start in adolescence as growing pains and continues through out their lives.
This book is the first to describe how to help these patients. Very often physical therapy is too vigorous for them, their symptoms become worse, they complain more and and in an attempt to convey their problem can appear very neurotic. They are not; they are just in pain.
This excelent book will be a comfort to patients who will feel understood probably for the first time and an excelent guide to those who are trying to help these poor people