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Even Top Athletes Can Get POTS: A Physical Therapist’s Personal Journey with Dysautonomia

How does a college athlete recover from POTS? Determination, GRIT, and plenty of patience.

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What is Physical Deconditioning with a Chronic Illness?

How can being physically inactive make your chronic illness worse?

Got a Cold with POTS? 5 Tips for a Faster Recovery

How to avoid the ER and deconditioning when the cold/flu is trying to bring you down.

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What is POTS?

Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) is a form of autonomic dysfunction. In other words, the part of your nervous system that controls all involuntary functions (breathing, digestion, heart rate, etc) has decided to rebel and you are now in a civil war with your body.

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Athletes with Dysautonomia: Tips and Tricks to Battling POTS
Got a Cold with POTS? 5 Tips for a Faster Recovery
How the Levine Protocol Improved My POTS/Dysautonomia
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College roomie came to visit!!! <3 Kelsey <3 And nope, I didn’t take the selfie— my arm was just having some fomo.

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Celebrating my mom’s 54th birthday the German way. Nothing can beat having your grandpa use a napkin as a makeshift accordion to join the band since he forgot his harmonica.

Best concert in a long time with @lordhuron !! Been waiting since 2013 to see them and was SO STOKED it finally happened!! Time to sleep for a decade.

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