SKU: 978-0-9818360-0-3

Created as a comprehensive reference for those affected by joint hypermobility and health care providers, this 148-page guide is written in everyday common sense terms so that joint hypermobility/EDS and the medical issues surrounding it become more understandable.

The author, Dr. Brad T. Tinkle, is a leading expert in connective tissue disorders. He developed this book as a primer to encourage dialogue between patients and their health care provider(s) in order to create an individualized treatment plan.

About the Author
Brad T. Tinkle, M.D., Ph.D., is a clinical and clinical molecular geneticist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC). He specializes in caring for individuals with heritable connective tissue disorders such as Ehlers-Danlos syndromes, Marfan syndrome, osteogenesis imperfecta,and achondroplasia among the many.

Dr. Tinkle serves as director of the Skeletal Dysplasia Center(CCHMC), co-director of the Marfan/Ehlers-Danlos syndrome clinic, as well as director of the Connective Tissue Clinic.

Additionally, he serves as assistant director in the Clinical Molecular Genetics Laboratory at CCHMC. Dr. Tinkle earned a bachelor's in science for engineering(BSE) in genetic engineering from Purdue University in 1989. He received his Ph.D. in Human Genetics from the George Washington University in the District of Columbia in 1995 and attended medical school at Indiana University and completed a pediatric/clinical genetics residency at CCHMC. He also finished a fellowship in clinical molecular genetics at CCHMC following residency.

Dr. Tinkle also currently serves on the Professional Advisory Network of the Ehlers-Danlos National Foundation.