About Hypermobility Connect

Hypermobility Connect is the work of Michelle O’Sullivan, a Senior Occupational Therapist in Sydney, Australia.

Hypermobility Connect was started in 2016 after Michelle saw a need for greater awareness, education, advocacy and support for people with all kinds of hypermobility conditions. Having worked as an Occupational Therapist in private practice with people of all ages living with hypermobility conditions, she was more than qualified and extremely passionate about creating a resource for the wider hypermobility community, not just those she could reach through one-to-one work. 

Hypermobility Connect started as a source of information for people seeking high-quality information about their condition. The need for a sense of community grew quickly, and Hypermobility Connect took on board a team of volunteer bloggers to help share their experiences of living with hypermobility conditions. 

In 2018, a Hypermobility Health Professionals Network (Australia) group was started on Facebook to enable those professionals already on our mailing list (and other experienced professionals) to start networking - bouncing ideas off each other, referring to and supporting each other. That’s now growing by the day, which is extremely exciting. 

From 2018-2023, Michelle provided a free service, “Find a health professional,” via Hypermobility Connect, answering hundreds of emails connecting people to appropriately trained/skilled health professionals. This service no longer runs now that the Ehlers-Danlos Society started a Healthcare Professionals Directory, which you can access here. Please note that this directory is a self-nominated database, and there are no guarantees about the practitioners' knowledge, skills or experience.