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Illustrated cover image titled “Our Team’s Favorite Go-To Support Aids for EDS/HSD,” featuring sketches of a recumbent bike, shoulder brace, Thera Cane massage tool, SmartCRUTCH forearm crutch, and a McKenzie neck roll pillow arranged across a white background.

Up Close and Personal: Our Team’s Favorite Go-To Support Aids for EDS/HSD

This month, we wanted to give you a peek into the daily lives of our team members by asking them to share a few of their favorite go-to supportive items for Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) or hypermobility spectrum disorders (HSD). While these aids might be what work for us personally, we hope they offer inspiration and ideas to help you live your life to the fullest with EDS/HSD.

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Measuring the Unmeasured

What Two New Studies Say About the Head, Neck, and hEDS People with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome have heard for years that their symptoms are “in their head.” In one sense, that may be true—but not in the way we all hate to hear. When it comes to symptoms like headaches, nausea, dizziness, brain fog, visual disturbances, […]

Jeevan, a brown man with black hair and a black beard is smiling brightly. He wears a blue suit.

From Patient to Researcher: An Interview with Jeevan Mann

Karina Sturm: Hi Jeevan, so good to see you again! When did your Ehlers-Danlos journey start? Jeevan Mann: I’ve had symptoms my entire life. I’ve been an athlete, so I’ve played almost every sport you could think of, from tennis, golf, boxing, and jujitsu. Throughout that, it became quite apparent that I was different from […]

Two blonde children in a hospital. The boy is lying in a hospital bed while the girl is next to him making a victory sign with her hands.

The Silence After Survival

They already understood.They already cared.They already believed. The next day, he was home again.And suddenly our phone rang with kindnessoffers of meals, ears, hands, hearts.Teachers, caregivers, friendsall reaching toward usinstead of away. After fourteen years of walking alone,this flood of support felt surreallike stepping into warm waterafter years of winter cold. But perhaps this is […]