How do you approach the treatment of patients with Ehlers-Danlos hypermobile type with chronic muscle spasms with minimal exertion?

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...

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 ...

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 ...