Why I Stopped Advising Ice for Injuries: Embracing P.E.A.C.E. & L.O.V.E.
Jacquelyn's Blogs Why I Stopped Advising Ice for Injuries: Embracing PEACE & LOVE Introduction: A Skeptic’s Journey For as long as I can remember, ice has been a staple in injury management. As an athlete, it was second nature—roll an ankle? Ice it. Sore knee? Ice it. Strained...
Do you have pain and feel like you’re alone on this one?
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome That was me. I didn’t think to ask if anyone else had experienced the pain I feel after cold water swimming – I do a lot of that. Turns out, after a passing comment, and a day of feeling that someone had put a hammer to my nipples after a swim, that...
EDS Awareness Month
Community May is EDS (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome) awareness month Having EDS means your collagen is faulty. As collagen is found throughout the body, the condition is multi-systemic and lifelong. It is genetic, there is no cure and it’s difficult to diagnose. My experience of EDS...
Our EDS (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome) community – why we have such compassion for chronic pain patients
Community Here’s a little of why we do what we do for the EDS community. The main thing is that you know we get it. We really do. All our staff have done extra training and I’ve been in this journey since I qualified as an osteopath and realised that I was seeing...