If you're hypermobile, you've probably had the experience of explaining your symptoms to someone who didn't quite believe you — or who treated each one as an isolated mystery. That's not how this practice works.
Ehlers-Danlos syndromes and hypermobility spectrum disorders affect connective tissue throughout the body, so symptoms cluster in predictable ways: unstable, clicking, painful jaws; chronic migraine and headache; neck and shoulder tension from muscles working overtime to stabilize lax joints; and dysautonomia that can disrupt temperature regulation and sweating. These aren't coincidences — they're connected. And several of them respond well to carefully planned therapeutic Botox.
What hypermobility-aware treatment means here
- Your diagnosis is taken at face value. Whether you have a formal hEDS diagnosis, an HSD label, or years of "you're just flexible," your history is the starting point — not something to argue about.
- Muscle guarding is respected. In hypermobile bodies, tight muscles are often doing stabilizing work. Dosing is conservative and targeted so overactive, pain-generating muscles are relaxed without stripping away the support your joints rely on.
- Tissue differences are planned for. Response to treatment can differ in hypermobile patients, so plans include follow-up and adjustment rather than assuming a standard result.
- The whole picture is considered. TMJ, migraine, and sweating are assessed together with your broader symptom pattern, not as unrelated complaints.
Conditions commonly treated
Therapeutic Botox addresses specific symptoms — it isn't a treatment for EDS itself, and it works best as one part of a broader care plan alongside your other providers. You'll get an honest assessment of what it can and can't do for your situation.
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Come as you are — bring your history, your questions, and your skepticism. Appointments available in Victoria and Burnaby.