HYPERMOBILITY EDS

Explore our NEW online Forum or FaceBook Group, Body Braid Banter for Body Braid users (most of whom live with Hypermobility). It is a very active and supportive community and there are several videos in the guides section that offer many different ways to wear the braid. 

Benefits for Hypermobile Individuals

People with hypermobility get extra benefit wearing the Body Braid. The extra feedback and resistance reduces the risk of injury from overstretching joints, which is common with hypermobility. Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS) is a genetic disorder of connective tissue that can cause severe hypermobility and many people with this condition have become keen Body Braid users. While safe stretching can be a very healthy activity, people with hypermobility can easily overstretch and cause injury. This is particularly tricky because people with hypermobility are “good” at doing stretches but also tend to overstretch causing problems and pain.

The Body Braid is helpful for people with hypermobility in three ways:

  1. The Body Braid gives extra sensation feedback as you stretch out the elastic material. It amplifies your proprioception. You are more aware of feeling the stretch as it is happening, so you are more likely to adjust to keep the stretch within a healthy range. An important benefit is that this added feedback keeps going even when you are not paying attention to it. A key principle of the Body Braid is that it is guiding your movement to be in a safe range and better aligned without having to think about it all the time. The increase of feeling safety and comfort in your body can be very powerful. A 2025 study supports that using the Body Braid helps with proprioception and balance! 
  2. The elastic bands provide mechanical hold and support, as they follow your body's own bands of connective tissue (learn more about anatomy trains here). The bands transmit the mechanical force spiraling from top to bottom and side to side which increases coordination. Wearing the Body Braid links movement anywhere in the body to movement all over the body.
  3. The Body Braid returns the spring in our step. Our own connective tissue bands are elastic when we are young, but they become progressively more fibrous and fixed with age and injury. The Body Braid restores the bounce to our movement, aligns coordination and also gives added sensation feedback. The combination helps to keep movement in a safe range. 

 

Three Things I Wish I Knew Before Putting on the Body Braid

 

EDS testimonials

 

I just wanted to say THANK YOU! My Body Braid is so incredibly fabulous. As an EDS Zebra, I find it hard to exercise and get my resistance training in but your Body Braid has made my life so much easier. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your wonderful invention.