diseases doctors often miss episode one eds or ehlers-danlos syndrome is a genetic condition that affects the connective tissues of the body leading to hypermobile skin or joints but because of the hypermobility patients often present with repeated injuries like dislocation sprains and even fractures in fact there are actually 13 subtypes some of which can affect the skin heart blood vessels and bones no cure is currently known in patients who are diagnosed can be treated with a combination of physical therapy medications or surgery too often patients with eds are overlooked and treated as hypochondriacs when the reality is this condition requires more attention and more recognition subscribe for episode number two