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“It’s All in Your Head”: New Study Confirms What hEDS Patients Have Been Told for Decades

Lead author Dr. Pradeep Chopra, a pain specialist located in Rhode Island, who has treated EDS patients for decades, shared the motivations behind the study: “I was seeing patients with EDS and almost all of them had gone through bad experiences of being misdiagnosed, misguided, and misjudged by the medical community. In 2010, I decided […]

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Folate-Dependent Hypermobility: Researchers at Tulane’s EDS Clinic Look Into New Possible Mechanism For Hypermobile EDS

A recent publication by scientists at Tulane University’s EDS clinic proposes a possible new mechanism behind hypermobility: folate dependency. The researchers hypothesize that MTHFR mutations may lead or contribute to a form of hypermobile EDS and present a treatment with 5-methyltetrahydrofolate to improve the patient’s symptoms.  Tulane’s EDS Clinic Two years ago, Tulane University’s EDS […]