If you manage to figure it out, hydrotherapy rather than land-based physiotherapy was an absolute game-changer for dealing with my hypermobility. I did one and the other before two different surgeries on the same leg and the surgery where I was doing hydrotherapy I got all range of motion and longish walking, decent balance back weeks earlier. I think you get more done in the pool with less recovery time.
It also helped a lot to see a physiologist for hydrotherapy rather than a physiotherapist, the one I saw just had a much larger understanding of how different bodies work, so when something wasn't working for me she was instantly able to make something else up on the go. One physiotherapist I saw tried to tell me that hypermobility wasn't something that causes issues in people and that overextending wasn't a thing because my body would 'naturally guard' itself. I left and never went back.
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If you manage to figure it out, hydrotherapy rather than land-based physiotherapy was an absolute game-changer for dealing with my hypermobility. I did one and the other before two different surgeries on the same leg and the surgery where I was doing hydrotherapy I got all range of motion and longish walking, decent balance back weeks earlier. I think you get more done in the pool with less recovery time.
It also helped a lot to see a physiologist for hydrotherapy rather than a physiotherapist, the one I saw just had a much larger understanding of how different bodies work, so when something wasn't working for me she was instantly able to make something else up on the go. One physiotherapist I saw tried to tell me that hypermobility wasn't something that causes issues in people and that overextending wasn't a thing because my body would 'naturally guard' itself. I left and never went back.
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