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Two things:

  1. I keep (especially post-surgery, cotemporal with relearning how to walk) finding more small ways that how I've been doing my various physio exercises isn't quite right. This is a good thing! Isn't it fascinating to be learning more about embodiment and how my body works and how I can best deploy my various muscles!

  2. Up until the hypermobility clinic, all the physio I was ever prescribed made me worse, not better.

It abruptly dawned on me, all at once, that the subtlety of the changes I'm making with adjusting how I'm shifting my weight around and so on and so forth? Are almost certainly not actually externally visible. Like, yes, people not understanding hypermobility and problems with it was also Definitely A Problem, but -- the part where I'm still, mm, not necessarily fixing things but certainly developing them, finding places where even with What The Hypermobility Clinic Told Me To Do I wasn't getting quite right... well, the hypermobility specialists clearly went "eh, good enough", and in terms of the effects on my ability to Things I think they were clearly demonstrably provable correct, but -- yeah, okay, sudden understanding of some of just how difficult it would have been to correct some of this stuff.

(I'm very sure that all my various epiphanies will turn out to be about things that still aren't quite right, that I can still refine further -- I'm having an extended phase of that with Pilates right now -- but this is a good thing, actually. It's really nice to have such clear evidence that I'm getting to know and understand myself better.)

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Date: 2025-06-11 05:25 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] zasu
You have access to a hypermobility clinic? My son’s trans partner is obviously bendy, and having problems because of it, and is getting help from physical therapists because of it, but I think they don’t have any special expertise, unfortunately. I doubt we even have any hypermobility specialists anywhere within hundreds of miles. But I’ll look for the nearest place. Maybe Portland or Seattle has something

I'm impressed

Date: 2025-06-11 03:49 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] jesse_the_k

at how positively you've framed this.

(In your shoes, I'd be whinging.)

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