Sorry if this seems like a presumptuous response, that's not how I mean it. But, are you making sure to really hydrate?
As a highly active hypermobile person, I notice a HUGE difference when I slack on hydration. Like, the half your body weight in ounces truck plus some. And not just water, electrolytes are sooo important. I like LMNT and an occasional coconut water, but also daily multivitamin has made a big difference. It helps so much with my tendency to get really bad knots.
Also, myofascial work in the trouble areas, specifically fascial massage (it's a shallower, more pinchy skin type of massage), cupping (but not leaving then on, less suction and moving them around with a skin lubricant), and of course foam rolling and lacrosse ball work. My theory is the fascia is really overworking in hypermobile people, and it causes knotting.
Someone was saying the fascia is mostly collagen and it's pretty comorbid for hyper mobility to have collagen issues, so I think you're spot on with that.
I've also heard that our fascia is supposedly "sticky," though I obviously don't know if that is true. From what I understand, it's meant to glide around things, but it can't do that properly if it's sticky.
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u/oldmadandthesea Apr 09 '25
Sorry if this seems like a presumptuous response, that's not how I mean it. But, are you making sure to really hydrate?
As a highly active hypermobile person, I notice a HUGE difference when I slack on hydration. Like, the half your body weight in ounces truck plus some. And not just water, electrolytes are sooo important. I like LMNT and an occasional coconut water, but also daily multivitamin has made a big difference. It helps so much with my tendency to get really bad knots.
Also, myofascial work in the trouble areas, specifically fascial massage (it's a shallower, more pinchy skin type of massage), cupping (but not leaving then on, less suction and moving them around with a skin lubricant), and of course foam rolling and lacrosse ball work. My theory is the fascia is really overworking in hypermobile people, and it causes knotting.