Bendy Bodies with Dr. Linda Bluestein

Whether you’re bendy with all the benefits or hurting in all the wrong places, you’ve come to the right place for all things hypermobility. Connective tissue disorders like Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes (EDS) are often dismissed or overlooked by healthcare providers as a cause of chronic pain. But if you or someone you care about struggles with the life-altering symptoms of hypermobility, you should know YOU ARE NOT ALONE! At the Bendy Bodies Podcast, we understand.
Each week, join Dr. Linda Bluestein (The Hypermobility MD) as she pulls back the curtain on how to prevent injury and unnecessary suffering in “double-jointed” individuals seeking a more comfortable life in their unique, complex “bendy bodies.” When you tune in, you’re engaging in more than a podcast. Both on-air and online, you’re joining a supportive community where patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals trade insights, life hacks, and inspiring stories to embrace our Bendy Bodies journey together!

Latest Episodes:

Ensuring Longevity: Screening, Strengthening and Supporting with Physiotherapist Moira McCormack (Ep 2) Mar 05, 2020

Show notes

In this continuation of our discussion with Moira McCormack, we delve deeper into Moira’s work as a researcher and tireless advocate for dance science and medicine in the studio setting. Moira talks through the basic screening tests used at the start of each season to help define a dancer’s strength and maintenance program for the year, explains what teachers of hypermobile dancers must understand, and reveals that “It’s never too late to build something else into your body. Nothing is insurmountable."

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Reducing Injury and Increasing Education with Royal Ballet Physiotherapist, Moira McCormack (Ep 1) Feb 26, 2020

Show notes

Moira’s tireless work with Royal Ballet and the Royal Ballet school have helped build the Royal Ballet into an oft-emulated model of treatment and intervention for ballet dancers. Join us as Moira describes how important a dancer’s early training is - movement patterns, alignment, biomechanics - to increase their career longevity.

Moira lists concrete, basic rules for training a hypermobile body, emphasizing the importance of strength work, patience in training, and the necessity of recovery time. It is not overstating it to say that Moira’s research, work, and advocacy have made it possible for hypermobile dancers to have longer, healthier careers.

Learn more about Dr. Linda Bluestein, the Hypermobility MD, at our websites and be sure to follow us on social media:

Websites: https://www.hypermobilitymd.com and www.BendyBodiesPodcast.com

Instagram: @hypermobilitymd

Twitter: @hypermobilityMD

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hypermobilityMD/

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/hypermobilityMD/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hypermobilitymd/

And follow guest co-host Jennifer Milner at the links below:

Website: www.jennifer-milner.com

Instagram: @jennifer.milner

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jennifermilnerbodiesinmotion/

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