cEDS

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Disability Pride Month: The World Works Better With Us

  Every July, the disability community marks Disability Pride Month: an annual celebration tied to the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on July 26, 1990. The ADA was a landmark civil rights law that prohibited discrimination against disabled people in employment, public accommodations, transportation, and government services. It was the result of […]

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New Study: Pain Threshold and Sensation in cEDS

A new study from Ghent, Belgium, discusses the difference between pain sensation and pain thresholds between subjects with genetically-confirmed classical Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (cEDS) and those without any form of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS). The article, published in  The Journal of Pain, discussing this research is “Sensory Profiling in Classical Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: A Case-Control Study Revealing Pain […]