By Simmonds JV1, 2, 3, Ellen Ewer1, 4, De Wandele Inge5, Kazkaz Hanadi2, 6, Ninis Nelly7, Rowe Peter8, Tang Eudora1, 6 Even more exciting 2025 update: The Spider Tool is now available here: The Spider Questionnaire | The Spider Exciting news: An update to this blog, April 2024 . The Adolescent Spider paper has been accepted and is currently available: open access pre proof. (Final paper will come out in the next few weeks.) To view the paper view below: The Spider; a multi

In December 2008, my partner proposed to me, and I was absolutely over the moon. I started planning my dream wedding for that July, only...

By Jenny LL Csecs1,2†, Valeria Iodice3,4†, Charlotte L Rae5, Alice Brooke2, Rebecca Simmons2, Lisa Quadt1, 2, Georgia K Savage1, 2...

Originally posted some years ago, this important blog fell off the website during a move. We have seen a number of people beating...

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Thank you to Reassured who have written this sponsored blog post which we hope may be of interest. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,...

Olivia D'Lima, best known for her role as Fenisha Khatri in the hit BBC series Casualty, has been nominated for the best newcomer...

Over the past few months, I’ve interacted with many different health care professionals – physiotherapists, rheumatologists,...

In 2019 our #HMSAware campaign focused on the challenges of staying active with a hypermobility syndrome, exercising enough to stay...

Dr Bull developed an interest in the Alexander technique when in training as a rheumatologist in the 1980s. He has taken lessons, and has...

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Many of our community are or have unpaid carers in their lives. 2020 has been a strange year for everyone, but with people...

The temperature is climbing here in the Northern hemisphere and for those that have PoTs in particular it means we will need to be a bit...

May 2023. This page is no longer regularly updated, many of the resources to which it points have closed (UKHSA monitoring pages and the...

By Sophie Harvey During these strange times, routine has been vital for me, both for pacing purposes and for my sanity. It helps give me...

Thank you so much for this. I found it really useful, reminding me of some things I knew already, and teaching me new ways of helping...

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My EDS Story – Zoe Lewis I have Ehlers-Danlos type 7. Arthrochalasia, there are believed to be around 40 confirmed cases in the world...

As with many rare conditions the medical name can be long and difficult to pronounce, Osteogenesis Imperfecta! It is more commonly known...

What are all these new conditions we keep hearing about, Ehlers-Danlos, hypermobility, classical - is our granddaughter not just double...