Tag: EDS

How I Deal with Chronic Pain

Warning: this video will be sad.

Martina suffers from chronic pain as a result of having Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. You don't see it in our videos often, because we tend to shoot on days that we're doing well. But on some days the pain can be unbearable, and Martina can barely focus. So what do we do on those days? Today Martina will show you, start to finish, how she deals with Chronic Pain, how she refuses to give up, and how she continues to #buildaladder.

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Tell Me a Story: Managing Chronic Pain from Ehlers Danlos Syndrome

http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/service/p/pain/services/pain-management-clinic/
Pain is a drag. It can wear you down. Even when you're 12. Hallie Pollard, a pre-teen ballet dancer, knows what it's like to deal with aches that get in the way of life. She started coming to the Pain Clinic at Cincinnati Children's last year. She was a double-jointed athlete whose tricks began to hurt her. Specialists diagnosed her with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, or EDS, a condition that makes her joints hyper elastic and prone to pain. Dr. Ken Goldschneider and the pain management team at Cincinnati Children's taught her how to manage her symptoms and be in control of her pain. Hallie says she has her life back. "Pain's not controlling it anymore," she says. "I'm controlling it."