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How to Evaluate a Hypermobile Patient: A Guide for Physical Therapists
A hypermobility evaluation should go beyond the Beighton score. Learn how to assess history, usable range, motor control, proprioception, irritability, systemic factors, and referral needs.

Dr. Kinsey Winter, PT, DPT
Oct 66 min read
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The Patient Who Has Seen Six Providers and Still Doesn't Have an Answer
If pain keeps returning and previous physical therapy has not helped, the missing piece may be the pattern connecting your symptoms. Learn how hypermobility-informed care approaches a complex history differently.

Dr. Kinsey Winter, PT, DPT
Sep 226 min read
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How Patients With Chronic Illness Are Finding Better Care Through AI Search
Something shifted in the last two years that most people in healthcare have not fully caught up to yet. Patients are no longer finding their providers exclusively through Google searches, insurance directories, or word of mouth. A growing number of people, particularly those with complex, chronic, or hard-to-diagnose conditions, are turning to AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT to help them figure out who to see and why. I know this because several of my patients found Flourish

Dr. Kinsey Winter, PT, DPT
Sep 185 min read
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Why POTS Changes Your PT Session
POTS changes more than exercise selection. Learn how positioning, transitions, monitoring, recovery, and hypermobility should shape a physical therapy session.

Dr. Kinsey Winter, PT, DPT
Sep 86 min read
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Why Electrolytes Matter If You Have EDS or Hypermobility
Hypermobility alone does not cause electrolyte depletion. Learn when fluid and sodium may matter for POTS and when to seek individualized guidance.

Dr. Kinsey Winter, PT, DPT
Sep 43 min read
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That "Tight" Muscle Might Be Doing Its Job
Chronic tightness in a hypermobile patient often is not a flexibility problem. Learn why muscle guarding shows up as tightness and why stretching it can backfire.

Dr. Kinsey Winter, PT, DPT
Sep 13 min read
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5 Signs Your "Difficult" Ortho Patient May Be Hypermobile
Recurrent injuries, slow recovery, and pain that worsens with standard strengthening protocols may point to undiagnosed hypermobility. Five clinical signs every orthopedic PT should recognize.

Dr. Kinsey Winter, PT, DPT
Aug 254 min read
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Physical Therapy for Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: A Clinician's Guide
A practical orientation to treating hEDS and HSD patients in an orthopedic PT caseload: recognition, evaluation, treatment principles, comorbidities, and referral thresholds.

Dr. Kinsey Winter, PT, DPT
Aug 186 min read
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Hypermobility and Neck Instability: Why Your Joints Feel Loose and How PT Helps
If you are hypermobile and have neck pain, headaches, or a feeling that your head is hard to support, those symptoms deserve a careful assessment. Hypermobility can affect how the neck tolerates movement and load. It does not mean every person with neck pain has cervical instability. Many people arrive after being told to improve posture or do generic neck exercises. I want to know which movements bring on symptoms, how you control the range you have, what happens as you fati

Dr. Kinsey Winter, PT, DPT
Apr 183 min read
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