Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

If you’re heading to the Ehlers-Danlos Society Learning Conference in Australia in December, here are my 10 tips for surviving conference day, from a seasoned conference attendee! 1. Stay [...]

This time of year can be stressful, as well as exciting and joyful. To keep the stress to a minimum we’ve come up with 7 ways to crisis-proof the holidays with hypermobility. 1. [...]

I visited the Ehlers-Danlos Society Learning Conference venue at Macquarie University in October in preparation for the Conference in Sydney this Dec 7-8. Here is what I found and wanted to share [...]

What a novel idea! Go see your doctor when you’re well? Why would you do that? We usually only go to the doctors when something is wrong. Makes sense, right? I mean they’re there to [...]

What alphabet do you use? The medical abbreviations that are common in the lives of a person with a chronic illness? You know, the do-re-mi-eds-pots-mcad-ocd medical dictionary? Do they define [...]

People often hold off seeing health professionals until things are really, really bad. They think “Oh, I’ll just see if I can cope a little longer on my own”. When it comes to Occupational [...]

So why would you see an Occupational therapist? There are many reasons why! Occupational Therapists (OTs) are trained allied health professionals who work in a range of settings, from hospitals [...]

What’s one of the ways your ‘Daily Dose of Movement’ can help you? Exercise is beneficial for management and prevention of acute and chronic mental illness. It is a fantastic part of your tool [...]

For Mental Health Awareness Month, we asked members of our hypermobility community to share their experiences of mental health as part of their hypermobility journey. This week Julie reflects on [...]

Service dog. What flashes in your mind when hearing those words? A blind man with a vision dog, a veteran who is an amputee? While these are two valid types of work of service dogs, there are [...]