Strategizing Diagnosis in New Mexico
Diagnosis & Care of Hypermobility & Related Conditions In & Around New Mexico, Plus Using Telehealth & Travel Options
Updated April 23, 2026
Updated April 23, 2026
Most of my EDS/HSD diagnosed clients have traveled for diagnosis or have been diagnosed while living elsewhere. It’s not yet easy in New Mexico to find a specialist or practice to cover all the needed bases in diagnosing or treating EDS, HSD, and co-occurring conditions, but some foundational principles are outlined here. On my Trusted Practitioners and Groups page, you'll find my own list of trusted providers near and remote, directories assembled by quality-signalling organizations (of course do your own due diligence!), and organizations that provide advocacy, information, practitioner and patient education, peer support, and the like.
The advantages of staying local for care can’t be ignored, but seeking diagnosis and/or having consult available through an expert in EDS and HSD is valuable as well:
Valid diagnoses of EDS and HSD are less likely to be missed in cases that don’t follow out-of-date diagnostic biases
Commonly co-occuring conditions will be largely top-of-mind and less likely to be missed
Rare but dangerous co-occuring conditions that receive less awareness outside of specialist clinics are less likely to be missed
Awareness and understanding of newer therapeutic options will make it easier to hear about and gain access to them
Appropriate alternative diagnoses that may make a difference to care are more likely to be familiar
EDS, HSD, and MCAS intrinsically impact every system of the body. Doctors have to stay general--they need each other to see the full picture and give you proper care for all the intricate complexities that hypermobile bodies often come with. Most people managing EDS or HSD do best ending up with a broad team made up of the most knowledgable people they have easy access to locally, plus perhaps some specialists afar if needed to cover complex or rare co-occurring conditions.
Regardless of where you receive diagnosis and treatment, make sure to cover these two items if EDS, HSD, or other hypermobility conditions are suspected:
Rule out cardiovascular complications from rarer forms of EDS or other hypermobility disorders. Although these are rare they are dangerous. Rarer forms can be ruled out through genetic testing. A cardiologist familiar with EDS could otherwise likely use imaging and other tests to identify related conditions or monitor for changes.
Understand what commonly co-occurring conditions could explain any otherwise mysterious or overlapping diagnoses, as well as what to watch out for. A pile of diagnoses (or undiagnosed symptoms) may boil down to something familiar to the EDS crowd. It is helpful to understand the basics so that you can track the right things, communicate more clearly with your health team, and more easily find your way into appropriate care for any lesser-known co-occurring conditions whether or not you have access to specialist oversight.
Here you'll find lists of providers in New Mexico or neighboring states, who can be a remote resource to your local physicians, or who can work virtually. See here also for links to resource and advocacy groups. Notes on each practitioner discuss whether I know them personally and trust their level of care or have seen them recommended by clients with EDS or HSD. Our group has yet to connect with these providers specifically to ensure that they are comfortable being listed as in any way associated with EDS. Lacking true and certified local expertise, those who have proven willing to hear and to learn are listed. Some have made heroic individual efforts to provide EDS-appropriate care for a patient in need. Others do actually bear some specialty. It’s only a start to gather the names--we do want to connect with all these folks to assess interest in becoming a go-to for local care. Your feedback on any of the names provided or to add people to the list is welcome. You’re also welcome to bring your healthcare team outreach info from our group and be our proxy in making the connection. Have interested providers connect with me, (Sarah Johnson, LMT)--sarah@lightspiritstudio.com or Katie Dewar, PT, DPT, PRPC–katie@lahoyahealth.com.
To share with providers who wish to be helpful and will need to do research to do so, we’ve collected a concise couple of pages of links to exceptional training on conditions common with EDS and HSD. You are welcome to bring a copy to your providers; they can use the QR code to access the live links easily. However incomplete this list must be in trying to summarize EDS care, any number of the resources provided will be enough to clarify for your provider the general principle of collagen variance spelled out across all body systems so that when they’re investigating some unknown symptom it should occur to them to look up the symptom with EDS in mind and in the search bar too.