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Hypermobility Clinic • Starts 10/01
👉 Save your seat: https://theschatzmethod.com/hypermobilityclinic/ The Schatz MethodTM is a proven remedy for permanent pain relief by treating the source, not the symptoms. This system was developed by Gina Schatz who believes it is possible to live in a world where people are pain free. "A number of years ago I was told I would not walk within 2 years without major back surgery. Chiropractic care along with Gina's skills and I am proud to say I walk fine without any pain. Now my visits with Gina simply make me feel like a new person. A massage from Gina is not just a massage it is an experience. Treat yourself to one of life's true pleasures."

Facial asymmetry is not always just about appearance.After my ninth concussion, the changes in my face became part of th...
10/03/2026

Facial asymmetry is not always just about appearance.

After my ninth concussion, the changes in my face became part of the information I was paying attention to.

My eyes and mouth were no longer level. When I smiled, only one side moved. My face was communicating something I did not mean.

So I started asking a different question:

What is the anatomy telling me?

Not every asymmetry has the same cause, and asymmetry alone is not a diagnosis. But the body is always giving us information.

We have to know what we’re looking at.

Follow for more on hypermobility and the clinical clues practitioners are often taught to miss.

10/01/2026

No filler. No injections. Just cranial work I did on my own hypermobile, post-concussion face.

The same protocol that leveled my face took the pressure off the base of my skull so my concussion could finally heal.

Practitioners: this is what I'm teaching starting today. Link in comments.

You can recognize hypermobility and still be unsure what to prioritize next.The headaches return. The jaw stays irritate...
09/28/2026

You can recognize hypermobility and still be unsure what to prioritize next.

The headaches return. The jaw stays irritated. You’re left wondering where to begin.

I shared this before-and-after example during our Hypermobility Principles Workshop.

Now, we’re continuing that learning inside the Hypermobility Clinic, Part 1: Cranium.

Over eight weeks, you’ll develop a clearer process for deciding what to work on first, what to observe, and when to adjust your approach.

You’ll connect the relevant anatomy and physiology to the decisions you make with real clients, applying the cranium protocol with at least two people while I guide you.

The goal is to leave with a process you understand and have practiced in your own work.

We begin October 1.

Want to see how the clinic works? Comment CLINIC and I’ll send you the details.

09/22/2026

Here's a paradox that trips up almost every practitioner working with hypermobile bodies.

The neck muscles are weak AND gripping. At the same time.

That sounds like it can't be true. Weak muscles are loose. Gripping muscles are strong. How can it be both?

Here's how.

They're weak because the bones they attach to are moving targets. In a hypermobile constitution, the cervical spine isn't stable, so the muscles never get a solid anchor to build strength against. They can't get stronger, because there's nothing steady to push off of.

And they grip because they know their job is enormous. This tiny, weak muscle is trying to hold up a head on an unstable neck. So it clamps down. It white-knuckles the job because it has no other option.

Weak. And gripping. Both, always, at the same time.

This is why your instinct to release that tension will backfire. You feel a tight, gripping muscle and you want to free it. But that grip is the only thing holding the structure together. Release it and you've taken away the sling holding up the head.

Understanding this one paradox changes everything about how you treat these bodies.

There's a lot more where this came from, my hypermobility workshop runs Monday through Wednesday this week.

Link in bio.

A client can leave your table saying they feel better, and the work may still have been too much.With hypermobility, fle...
09/18/2026

A client can leave your table saying they feel better, and the work may still have been too much.

With hypermobility, flexibility and tension can exist at the same time. Releasing everything that feels tight may provide immediate relief while leaving the body with less support afterward.

The opposite extreme isn’t the answer either. Strength matters, but strength and stability are not interchangeable.

Before choosing release or load, consider:

→ Why are you choosing it?
→ What support is already present?
→ How does the client respond after the session, not only while they’re on the table?

This is the kind of decision-making we’ll explore during the live Hypermobility Principles Workshop, September 21–23.

Learn what to assess, what to prioritize, and how to make more thoughtful choices for hypermobile clients.
https://theschatzmethod.com/hypermobilityclinic/

09/13/2026

If you train or treat bodies, you know the standard sequence. Warm up, get blood into the muscles, work to fatigue, cool down. It's standard because it works, for most bodies.

For a hypermobile constitution, that order will backfire.

Here's why. A hypermobile body comes to you already tight, already gripping, horizon already moving. If I do a warm-up first, cardio on top of a gripping, braced system, I get dizzy. Genuinely. The warm-up makes it worse.

So the recipe changes. I have to stretch first, which is the opposite of what you're taught, to get the joints moving and release some of the grip. THEN add stability. THEN add the reps. THEN re-stabilize at the end, or I leave as a moving target.

Same ingredients everyone uses. Completely different recipe.

And it all has to happen slower. So much slower than any trainer or Pilates instructor typically moves. Which means in a 60-minute session you cover less with a hypermobile body, even though they need more. That's the puzzle you have to solve to serve them well.

You already have the ingredients. What you need is the recipe.

That's exactly what I'm teaching September 21st through 23rd. Three days on the principles of working with hypermobile bodies, especially injured ones.

Link in bio.

09/11/2026

Here's something that will change how you see your most flexible clients.

You'd think a hypermobile body would feel loose and relaxed. Instead, it's often tight, gripping, and anxious. Why?

Because for a hypermobile constitution, the horizon is always moving. Not the real horizon, their internal sense of where they are in space. It's a constantly moving target. The body never quite knows if it's about to fall over.

So it grips. It braces. It locks down to create some stability where the ligaments aren't providing it.

That gripping isn't relaxed. It's an amped-up state. And when the nervous system feels amped up long enough, it interprets that as: I must be anxious.

So now you have a client who is flexible, tight, AND anxious, and every one of those is coming from the same root.

Here's the part that matters for practitioners: if you're a manual therapist, you'll be very compelled to release all that tension. And they probably do need some. But if you release the gripping without following up, you just took away the only stability their body had. Now the horizon is moving and there's nothing holding them.

That "faux stability" was doing a job. You can't just strip it.

This is what makes hypermobile bodies different to work with. And it's exactly what I'm teaching in the workshop coming up September 21st through 23rd.

Link in bio to join us.

09/11/2026

Going live today at 10 AM ET.

After The Invisible Constitution, one thing was clear:
There are still a lot of questions around what to recognize, assess, and prioritize when a hypermobile client isn’t responding the way you expect.

I’m opening a live training session today to keep that conversation going.

Bring:
• a client case you’ve been thinking about
• a question that came up during the Challenge
• or the moment where you’re still unsure what should come first

We’ll use those questions to explore the reasoning behind working with hypermobile bodies, and where the Hypermobility Principles Workshop takes that work next.

Today · 10 AM ET
Join us live → https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82357524073

09/05/2026

A practitioner brought me a client's MRI report. She'd decoded every word — which takes real courage the first time.

She thought the picture was textbook for a specific condition. But the report didn't use that word. And because the label wasn't spelled out the way she expected, she got spooked and started doubting everything she knew.

Here's what I told her.

You know the difference between these conditions. You know what the degenerative changes mean. You know your approach to each. You had the knowledge.

Then you let an external thing — a report that didn't use your word — talk you out of what you already knew.

That's not a knowledge gap. That's the reasoning gap. And it's the one that quietly takes practitioners out, over and over.

Because you can know something backwards and forwards, but if you don't know that you know it, you're not confident. And an unconfident practitioner second-guesses in front of a client who needs them steady.

You don't need the diagnosis name. You need the implication. I don't care if they call it the Purple Pumpkin People Eater, as long as I know what it means for my plan, the name is irrelevant.

Stop collecting more knowledge. Start trusting the reasoning you already have.

This is why I wanted to hold The Hypermobility Challenge.One of our attendees shared the Challenge with a client who had...
09/03/2026

This is why I wanted to hold The Hypermobility Challenge.

One of our attendees shared the Challenge with a client who had been falling, bruising easily, and experiencing patterns she couldn’t explain. After watching, her client began to see how those experiences could be connected.

That understanding changed their conversation. Instead of simply adding more load, they talked about slowing down, moving with deliberation, and stabilizing the joints first.

This is what I hoped these three days would make possible: practitioners seeing more clearly, clients understanding their bodies more fully, and better conversations shaping the care that comes next.

Thank you to every practitioner who joined us, brought a real client to mind, asked thoughtful questions, and was willing to reconsider the usual plan. I’m grateful you were in the room with us.

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