Heather Purdin

Heather Purdin has been a practicing PT in an outpatient setting for 26 years and has a special interest in chronic pain, fibromyalgia, and connective tissue disorders. She is president of the Oregon Area Ehlers-Danlos Society. She is also president of Good Health Physical Therapy & Wellness, a private practice specializing in connective tissue disorders and hypermobility. She is a certified manual physical therapist through NAIOMT and utilizes a variety of osteopathic manual therapy techniques in her approach to patients with HSD/EDS. Her patient population is currently 95 percent patients who are hypermobile and/or have EDS. Ms. Purdin has presented on HSD/hEDS at APTA NEXT (2017) and CSM (2018, 2022), has spoken about hEDS at the Oregon PT Association conference, and has spoken extensively in Oregon, aiming to raise awareness of this condition in the medical and lay communities. She is coauthor, with Patricia Stott, of Taming the Zebra—It’s Much More than Hypermobility: The Definitive Physical Therapy Guide to Managing Hypermobility, published in 2023.

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