Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

Your joints bend further than they should. Your skin stretches like soft cloth and tears at the slightest touch. Bruises appear without your knowing where they came from. Your connective tissue — the invisible web that holds your entire body together, that supports organs, stabilises joints, shapes skin — is built differently from most people's. Medicine calls it a genetic deviation in collagen production. Your body forms the structural protein that should provide stability in an altered form. The result: what holds firm in others gives way in you.