Bleeding Disorders News & Articles

Functional training focuses on improving real-life movement, strength, and stability to help individuals with bleeding disorders stay active and reduce injury risk. It emphasizes mindset, consistency, and personalized exercise to build confidence and support long-term health.

Coping with a chronic disorder or disease affects more than just the child who has been diagnosed, it impacts the entire family. At the moment of diagnosis, the entire family’s focus, goals and priorities are forced into a place of re-evaluation.

The annual Utah Hemophilia Foundation Camp Valor invites children 8 – 13 years old affected with a bleeding disorder (or siblings and children 10 – 11 years old whose parents are affected with a bleeding disorder.)

We know through clinical studies that physical activity/exercise strengthens muscles and keeps our joints and whole body healthy. Those studies also apply to people living with a bleeding disorder. Strong, healthy and active bodies allow us to be more active and physically feel better every day.

Having a hemophilia diagnosis need not limit your ability to travel by air this summer, but it does call for extra precautions and safety tips.

Did you know that swimming has tremendous benefits on your overall health while protecting your joints? This is an excellent way to exercise and not put stress on your joints.

While patients with hemophilia may have any type of bleeding episodes, the hallmark of hemophilia is hemarthrosis or bleeding into the joints, with typically 70-80% of bleeding episodes being hemarthrosis.

Yoga works your muscles surrounding the knee, building strength and increasing flexibility which helps to prevent injury. The increased flexibility that yoga provides can make other physical activities safer and less strenuous.

While patients with hemophilia may have any type of bleeding episodes, the hallmark of hemophilia is hemarthrosis or bleeding into the joints, with typically 70-80% of bleeding episodes being hemarthrosis.