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May is hypermobility awareness month. Learn more about hypermobility and the various ways it can impact you (not just your joints!) with our FREE Hypermobility guide: https://spreadwhealth.com/hypermobili...

Both Katie and I have been diagnosed with the hypermobile variant of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS). We tell our stories in the resources mentioned above.

The sacroiliac joint is a robust joint with a ton of tissue holding it in place. In general, it only moves about 1 degree for most people. For hypermobile folk, especially women, there seems to be a higher likelihood of having SIJ pain the crops up from time to time.

These few exercises may give you an idea of how to work single-sided exercises without fear of things going wonky.

Single-sided exercises are excellent for strengthening as they allow you to challenge your movements with less weight, improve stability of the joint (balance for instance), and figure out which side is weaker/tighter/stronger so that you can make things more equal.

In general, once you figure out which side has more difficulty, we tell people to train that side first, do as many reps as they can on that side with decent form, then replicate the same number on the strong side. For example: if a workout says to do 12 reps on each side, start with the "weak" side. If you can only do 9 on that side, then do 9 on the "strong" side as well.

This can help even things out.