How do you approach the treatment of patients with Ehlers-Danlos hypermobile type with chronic muscle spasms with minimal exertion?
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You accept that EDS is a genetic connective tissue disorder and not a rheumatological issue. You check hormones and vitamins to ensure they are in range: especially Mg with the cramps. Some EDS patients find working with an EDS physical therapist is beneficial: the goal being to learn how to exercis...
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at Duke University Medical Center Agreed! You mention social media, and there is a L...
It has been my experience that although patients with hEDS often fulfill diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia, they respond less well or predictably to the small arsenal of medications available to treat nociplastic pain (e.g., SNRIs, anticonvulsants, LDN).
Improvement in the domain of pain in most...
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at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Unfortunately, POTS, dysautonomia, is also found i...
at NYU Langone Agree!
Diagnostic criteria for ME include post-ex...
at Adventist Health Castle Has anyone heard of Sensory Motor Amnesia in relat...
at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) Dr. @Natalie Azar: your comments about hEDS, POTS,...
at NYU Langone Hi :)
I found this to be a good review:
Monaco e...
at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) @Natalie Azar Thank you!
at Adventist Health Castle Thank you all!
at Veros Health I work in an immunology-focused clinic and I would...
at Adventist Health Castle Thank you for this very thorough explanation of sy...
at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) Thanks for all the answers from the experts here. ...
The original question regarding muscle spasm might not have been addressed, or only tangentially. The usual definition of muscle spasm, "a sudden, involuntary, and often (but not always) painful contraction or twitching of one or more muscles that cannot immediately relax," is rather different from ...
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at Adventist Health Castle Thank you Dr. @Freeman. The spasms are rhythmic af...
at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital Basic definitions and origins:
Clonus, almost by ...
Agreed! You mention social media, and there is a L...