Movement is key to managing hEDS and fibromyalgia pain; so is a weighted blanket really such a good idea in these circumstances or could it actually contribute to symptom load?
Weighted blankets revisited
importance of movement
Finally, a diagnosis!
Why is diagnosis just so darned important and cathartic when you are living with complex health; is it just because of finding the right treatment protocols (which is an important consideration since the advice for one chronic condition can be quite contrary to the advice for another, as I learned the hard way) or is there so much more to it than that?
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Rediscovering your life-force through movement
Apart from being essential for wellbeing and general health, movement can help remind me where all my muscles are in space (given my proprioceptive equipment can be a bit compromised...), can also help me to be upright without my autonomic system always spinning off into a panic at the idea of gravity. Otherwise, when I forget I have a body (I'm autistic so "out of sight, out of mind" is pretty much my modus operandi) I very quickly lose the joy of it! Exploring the importance of having enough space to move about in when you have chronic conditions and are neurodivergent.
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Living the animated life
Movement is so key to good health and I'm sharing some that have really benefitted me on the recovery path from chronic pain. If there’s a thread running through all these activities, its the importance of hooking onto the ones that you really want to do, grabbing onto the coat-tails of enthusiasm (even if laced with fear and self-doubt), not forcing yourself against the grain to follow 'recommended' programs. The more movement becomes an integrated part of life, the less pain remains part of the fabric of life - it just gets shimmied out!
Living whole 