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Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (difficult to pronounce, easier to refer to as EDS!) is a group of disorders that "affect your connective tissues - primarily your skin, joints and blood vessel walls" (Mayo Clinic, n.d.). This can look like someone having very flexible joints (think of someone able to bend their wrist all the way back or bending down to touch the floor with the palms of their hands without needing to bend their knees to do so). Other people may say they have 'double jo

Three wonderful days of Combined Sections Meeting (CSM) in Anaheim and it's been a blast! I went to a bunch of super interesting sessions and took a ton of notes. I learned so many intervention ideas to help my patients when I get back home. I even got to go to the exhibit hall and visit a bunch of booths. Managed to add a bunch of ribbons for my badge: Academy of Pelvic Health Physical Therapy, PTPAC, Pelvic Health Therapist, Ask Me About Your Pelvic Floor. CSM badge with ad

Sometimes my patients come to their appointments with me after undergoing a defecography test. They receive the report, but don't understand the findings, so I spend some time going over and reviewing the report with them. You don't know what you don't know, and I am a firm believer in knowledge, especially about one's own body. So I wanted to go over the nitty gritty of defecography within this post. Defecography is a "fluoroscopic examination for patients with defecation di