CT Center for CranioSacral Therapy

08/04/2026

There are just a few seats left in this class! Elevate your understanding of EDS and add to your manual therapy toolkit in a gentle, safe and empowering seminar!
Register at:
www.ctcranio.com/ofitraining

07/25/2026

More info and registration can be found here:
https://www.ctcranio.com/ofitraining

06/30/2026

Sadly I’ve had to cancel the Baltimore class!
Please join me in Madison WI, Oct 2-5

06/29/2026

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06/10/2026

Canceled!

05/21/2026

Thank you Lara!

05/13/2026

She walked into the ER with a blood pressure of 200 over 180 and cried in triage because her body was telling her something the chart wouldn't record. They wrote "anxiety" in her chart and sent her home.

About an hour before her real diagnosis, an ER team told her that anyone could see she was having a panic attack and the emergency room wasn't really the place for that.

She was a doctor. A pediatrician in her forties with three school-aged kids. She had been to the ER twice already with blood pressures in the 200s and chest scans they called negative. She knew her own body. She also knew the criteria for hypertensive emergency well enough to call her own utilization review team and ask them to send the criteria over so she could fight to be admitted.

That last visit, she insisted on seeing the physician instead of the extender. She insisted on a scan of her abdomen. They found a ten by twelve centimeter tumor. They went back and looked at the chest scan from the trip before. The "negative" one. There were findings on it. She was admitted to the ICU and told she had stage four renal cell carcinoma.

Her name is Kelly Curtin-Hallinan. The cancer was eventually downgraded to stage three. She is finishing treatment this month.

When she asked the team afterward if she could have advocated better for herself, she meant it. Because for weeks, she had started to wonder if she really was having a psychological event. That is what medical gaslighting does to a person, even a person with an MD.

If you have a wife or a sister or a mom or a friend who keeps coming back to the ER and keeps getting sent home with anxiety, listen to her. If you are a clinician on the other side of that triage door, listen to her too. Not every panic attack is a panic attack. Sometimes it is a tumor the size of a softball.

Send this to the woman in your life who has ever been told her pain was in her head. Send it to the resident who is learning what it means to listen. Send it to the doctor who needs to remember what it feels like on the other side of the gown.

Listen to the full conversation on The Podcast by KevinMD. Link in the comments.

What did you come in to say at your last appointment that you ended up leaving unsaid?

05/13/2026

05/12/2026

I got so excited to share my updates from the past couple of weeks, I forgot to share what’s happening soon!! Please join me in BALTIMORE or MADISON later this summer and fall! ❤️🦓😁

04/02/2026

I was heartbroken to learn of the passing of the incredible Professor Rodney Grahame on March 29th.

I have known Rodney for almost 20 years, first as a patient and over time as a mentor, colleague, and dear friend. He was one of the very first doctors who truly saw me, believed me, and validated what I was going through when so many others did not. He asked questions I didn’t even realise I had answers to, and he had answers to the questions I had been asking others for years. Most importantly, he understood.

I often think back to 2007, when I was unwell with an infection, unable to stand without my heart racing, my blood pressure dropping, surrounded by doctors telling me it was anxiety. I felt lost & dismissed. I discharged myself and went straight to Rodney. In that moment, everything changed. He was the first to speak to me about POTS, and to recognise that it could coexist with EDS. Because of him, I finally had answers, received the care I needed, and was able to recover.

Rodney didn’t just change my care, he changed the course of my life. His influence is woven into so much of what I do today.

He supported me through so many moments, including helping me reach the finish line of the London Marathon in 2011, even while gently reminding me I probably shouldn’t do it. He stood beside me throughout my career, from EDS UK to The Ehlers-Danlos Society, always offering guidance, encouragement, and unwavering belief.

What made Rodney so extraordinary was not only his clinical brilliance, but his humanity. He fought tirelessly for our community, for recognition, for validation, and for people to be taken seriously. The Ehlers-Danlos syndromes were his life’s work, and he gave that work his everything.

I am so grateful I was able to spend time with him in the last few months at his home with his wonderful family.

Rodney, thank you, for believing in me when others did not, for guiding me when I felt lost, and for standing beside me through so many chapters of my life. Your legacy will live on in every person who feels heard & believed because of the path you helped create. I will miss you my friend.