Sometimes it’s hard to explain what I mean when I say I feel like a twisted pretzel. While my physical therapist (PT) and massage therapist understand, they’re also trained to look for such anomalies. I don’t think it’s something the average person can see, but I definitely feel it when…
Celiprolol may help lower the risk of fatal vascular complications while also providing psychological reassurance for people with vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (vEDS), according to the first study of the treatment conducted outside Europe. In the Japanese study, nearly half of the patients experienced no vascular or nonvascular complications…
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Sometimes Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) just doesn’t seem to have a discernible pattern to me. While I’ve been doing much better overall recently, thanks to fascial counterstrain physical therapy (FCS), that doesn’t mean that I don’t have triggers or pain flares. It just means that hopefully they’re less…
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