Dr. Mel Houser
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard Jul 2024
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multidisciplinary clinicians and community members, elevating the wisdom of lived expertise and really studying the best practices in this constellation because unfortunately,
Sometimes the standard management of some parts of this cluster, and I'll give you some examples of like what's in the cluster, but some of the standard management of some parts of the cluster make the other parts worse.
And so if you're not zoomed out enough, you end up having like internal conflicting access needs and people don't get better when you fragment out their body parts.
So some examples of this cluster, connective tissue differences like hypermobility spectrum disorders or hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos, dysautonomia or type of that called POTS, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, gastrointestinal conditions, migraine, pain syndromes like fibromyalgia, myalgic encephalomyelitis, chronic fatigue syndrome, long COVID.
I mean, the list goes on and on.
Endometriosis.
And that's not an exhaustive list by any means.
It's really neuroimmune conditions, the nervous system and the immune system that communicate with one another in all these different organ systems.
And so you have to zoom out and approach this as one big whole, because if you don't, you end up sometimes, as I said, having these internal conflicting needs.
So for example, if somebody has chronic pain, it's pretty common.
A doctor might prescribe something like a muscle relaxant.
But if it was not known that the person had a connective tissue problem where they had floppy, stretchy connective tissue, now the muscle relaxant made that worse.
And oh, by the way, that includes the connective tissue in the airway that now you've made their unknown sleep disorder worse.
worse, like obstructive sleep apnea, where now the floppy connective tissue is closing off the airway, which is going to result in all of their other problems, their migraine, their dysautonomia, their pain actually getting worse because they don't have restorative sleep.
And so you end up chasing your tail a lot because you just really weren't seeing the whole construct.
And so the work of this task force last year, we put together this free resource.
We call it the everything's connected to everything, improving the health care of autistic and ADHD adults.
But it's not just autistic and ADHD adults.
It's not just adults.
That's just where we started.
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