Soft Tissue Pain In The Collagen Disorders And Response To Treatment With Prolotherapy
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) is a group of connective tissue disorders that are essentially about abnormal collagen synthesis, formation, and structuring. Connective tissue holds the whole body together. This presentation briefly covers the diagnosis of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome 2017 New York criteria, 2023 paediatric criteria update.
Conflicts of interest : I am on the international steering committee for the next hEDS criteria including being one of the centers for recruitment for the study. Biography Fraser Burling (BHB, MBChB, Dip MSM, FRACP) is a rheumatologist and general physician with a sub-specialization in musculoskeletal medicine and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS). Trained in New Zealand, and graduating in 1993, he has been working in private practice since 2006. He went full-time private from 2012. He learned musculoskeletal medicine beyond the MSM diploma from Dr. Kenneth Orr, who trained under John Mennell, Jr. from St Thomas’ Hospital in London. Dr. Orr combined these techniques with strengthening injections as taught by orthopaedic surgeon George Hackett. Dr. Burling applied these techniques to EDS patients as well, and from there developed the interest in EDS, including discovering that his wife and family are also affected.He now has over a thousand patients with EDS and is active within the international EDS community, seeking ways to provide even better care for people affected by this syndrome. “We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself,” Albert Schweitzer. |