Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Why Hypermobility Can Drive Low-Grade Anxiety #shorts

18 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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People with hypermobile connective tissue have 80% sensory nerves in their fascia, flooding the brain with constant input. This chronic overstimulation can trigger low-grade anxiety, hyperalertness, and sleep problems like waking in the night unable to calm down.

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If you're hypermobile, your tissues are loosey goosey or stretchy. So for example, 80% of the nerves that innervate your fascia, your connective tissue, are sensory. Meaning they're giving input back to your brain, back to your nervous system. All of a sudden you're giving your nervous system more information about your body. All of a sudden your brain can get a low grade trauma, low grade overstimulation that over time builds and builds and builds and creates this low level anxiety, this hyper alertness. Easily startled. You wake up middle night and you're like, I can't get back to sleep. Someone gets you anxious or revved up, it's so hard to calm back down.