Dr. Linda Bluestein, MD | Bendy Bodies
Connecting the Dots, Live
Dr. Linda Bluestein is the leading voice on hypermobility, EDS, and the complex conditions that travel with them. Physician, educator, host of the top charting Bendy Bodies podcast, and a patient herself, Dr. Bluestein is the expert patients and caregivers rely on and the one clinicians learn from. She speaks to patient communities, trainees, healthcare teams, and corporate audiences, and tailors every talk to the room.
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Past and Present Partners
Mayo Clinic
The Ehlers Danlos Society
Royal Academy of Dance
Ehlers Danlos Support UK
ISSWSH
ISSM
IADMS
PAMA
Colorado Ballet
Boulder Ballet
Milwaukee Ballet
Cirque Physio
CSULB Dance
Bobby Jones CSF
myPFM
Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts
Niel Asher
AAOP
Trinity Irish Dance Company
APTABook Dr. Bluestein
Four ways to bring Dr. Bluestein to your audience, plus a door for everything else. Every talk is built for the room.
Patients and Caregivers
Patient conferences, support groups, advocacy events, and community gatherings. Dr. Bluestein speaks as a physician who lives with hEDS, giving audiences clear answers, practical strategies, and the feeling of finally being understood.
Sample talks
- Connecting the Dots: Making Sense of Your Bendy Body
- Why Does Everything Hurt? Pain, Connective Tissue, and the Nervous System
- Living Well With Hypermobility: What Actually Helps
Those in Training
Medical schools, residency and fellowship programs, PT, OT, and nursing programs, and dance medicine programs. How to recognize, evaluate, and care for hypermobile patients, and what a career in this field looks like, including as a physician with a chronic illness.
Sample talks
- The Complex Patient: When Multiple Symptoms Share One Underlying Cause
- The Hypermobility Connection: What Every Clinician Needs to Know
- Practicing Medicine With a Chronic Illness
Clinicians and Healthcare Teams
Grand rounds, CME programs, specialty society meetings, and multispecialty conferences. For clinicians across primary care, rheumatology, neurology, cardiology, GI, allergy and immunology, pain, PM&R, women's health, and pediatrics. Dr. Bluestein created the first online EDS CME program and has presented grand rounds for Kaiser Permanente.
Sample talks
- The Patients We Keep Missing: Connecting the Dots in Complex Chronic Illness
- EDS, POTS, and MCAS: Separating Science From Hype
- Chronic Pain, Central Sensitization, and the Role of Connective Tissue
Bendy Bodies Live, On Location
A branded live taping of the Bendy Bodies podcast on your stage, in your venue, or virtual. It can be a one of a kind episode just for your room, or an episode released to the full Bendy Bodies community. Live conversation with Dr. Bluestein and a guest, audience Q&A, sponsored or co branded sessions, or a private recording for your organization.
The audience you're tapping into
Or Something Else Entirely
Tell us your goals, who will be in the room, and what you want them to walk away with, and we'll shape the right format together. Think corporate wellness, executive health programs, dance company and athletic department sessions, moderated panels, media and podcast appearances, or advisory work.
Start the ConversationSignature Keynote
The Missing Connection: What Joint Hypermobility Can Teach Us About Chronic Pain and Complex Illness
Dr. Bluestein's flagship keynote, adapted for every audience. For clinicians, it is about diagnostic reasoning and management. For patients and caregivers, it is about why their symptoms connect and what to do next. For leaders and employers, it is about why complex patients fall through the cracks and how systems can do better.
Request This TalkDr. Bluestein Talking Points
A sampling. Every talk is adapted to the audience in the room.
- Understanding hypermobility: EDS and HSD overview
- The role of genetics in EDS and HSD
- Pain management and central sensitization
- Comorbidities: POTS, MCAS, and other conditions
- Diagnosis and misdiagnosis
- Living with EDS and HSD and managing symptoms
- Treatment options and ongoing research
- Navigating healthcare systems and advocacy
- Hypermobility in dancers and performing artists
- Self care and holistic approaches
- Family, relationships, and caregiving
- Educational and career challenges
- Practicing medicine with a chronic illness
- Community and support systems
As Seen In
Dr. Bluestein's expertise has been featured by:
"Linda is the doctor an entire community waited years to find. Put her in front of any room and patients leave feeling understood, and clinicians leave knowing exactly what to do next." Shahnti Brook, President, Human Content
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