How To Tips: Actually Doing the PT Home Plan

You know you should be doing it, but it can be so hard, painful and flaring. +Scripts for PT talks.

Let’s be real:
You left the clinic with a folder of photocopied stick-figure exercises and high hopes. Maybe you even downloaded that app your PT recommended. But now? That paper’s curled up in the corner of your room like it’s ashamed of you. And the app? Never opened. Your hypermobile body is still wrecked, and your joints are staging daily protests.

You’re not lazy. You’re not weak-willed. You’re just living in a chronic illness reality where doing anything costs battery you don’t always have. So let’s drop the guilt and talk about how to actually stick to the damn home PT program when you have EDS, POTS, MCAS, and a dozen other acronyms breathing down your neck.

Why You Never Can Stick With It (And Why That’s Not Your Fault)

Let’s list the usual suspects:

- Pain spikes after you do the first set—then you're flaring for 3 days straight.

- The exercises feel too hard, too fast. Or worse, they feel useless.

- Fatigue hits before the floor mat does.

- You're afraid of doing it wrong and causi…