For many people with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), a diagnosis comes only after years of normal test results, partial explanations, and advice to stretch more or worry less. Some are told the problem is in their head. EDS is a well-established diagnosis, and what the...
Single, Dual, DSR and Bilateral Stellate Ganglion Blocks: What’s the Difference?
If you’ve been researching stellate ganglion blocks, you’ve probably noticed the vocabulary multiplying: single, dual, DSR and bilateral dual. Are these different procedures—or simply different names for similar approaches? Fair questions. Let’s untangle the...
Craniocervical Instability Treatment Without Surgery: What Are Your Options?
Your head feels too heavy for your neck. Headaches bloom at the base of your skull. Turning to check a blind spot brings dizziness, brain fog, or a wave of “wrongness” that’s hard to put into words. If that sounds familiar — especially if you’ve been told your imaging...
Nerve Hydrodissection: How Ultrasound-Guided Injections Release Trapped Nerves
Burning. Tingling. Numbness that comes and goes — or never quite leaves. When a nerve is being squeezed, it has a limited vocabulary. And it tends to repeat itself. If you’ve been living with carpal tunnel syndrome, occipital neuralgia, or another form of nerve...
What Are Orthobiologics? A Plain-English Guide
If you've spent any time researching joint pain treatment, you've probably run into the word "orthobiologics" and wondered what it actually means in practice. Here's the plain-English version. The Big Idea Orthobiologics are treatments that use materials from your own...
Dual Sympathetic Reset (DSR): What It Is and Who It Helps
Most people who've heard of Stellate Ganglion Block (SGB) know it as a single injection near a bundle of nerves in the neck. Dual Sympathetic Reset (DSR) is a more refined version of that same idea — and it's the protocol Dr. Ryan Wood has performed nearly 3,000 times...
The “Trifecta”: Understanding the Connection Between POTS, MCAS, and EDS
If you've been diagnosed with one of these conditions, there's a good chance a provider has mentioned the other two — almost like a package deal. Patients and specialists have started calling it "the trifecta": Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), Postural Orthostatic...
Can Occipital Neuralgia Cause Brain Fog?
Head pain is disruptive enough on its own. But many patients with occipital neuralgia describe something else alongside the pain: trouble concentrating, a mental fuzziness that doesn't lift even when the pain briefly eases. It raises a fair question — is the brain fog...
Low-Dose Tirzepatide: Can It Help Reduce Chronic Inflammation and Joint Pain?
If you've read our earlier piece on tirzepatide and joint health, you already know the basics: this dual GLP-1/GIP medication does a lot more than support weight loss — it appears to calm systemic inflammation along the way. But that raises a follow-up question we...








