Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) is a group of hereditary connective tissue disorders caused by faulty or insufficient collagen and/or elastin. These disorders mainly affect the skin, bones, joints, blood-vessels, heart, nervous system and immune system among others.
Signs / Symptoms
- Loose joints—causing joint dislocations and destruction
- Poor blood pressure control, orthostatic hypotension and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS)
- Fagility Fractures
- Disc dislocations and destruction
- Fragile, thin, elastic skin with atrophic scarring
- Easy bruising due to capillary fragility
- Click murmur syndrome and arrhythmias
- Dysautonomia causing hypersensitivity to the surrounding environment
- Regional pain and global chronic pain syndrome
- Gastroparesis
- Altered immune system
- Vestibular balance abnormalities
- Dental crowding
- Temporomandibular joint problem
