Heather Purdin

Physical Therapist, Author, Speaker, EDS Advocate

Heather Purdin, PT, MS, CMPT has been practicing PT in an outpatient setting for 27 years with a special interest in orthopedics, manual therapy, chronic pain, connective tissue disorders, and complex medical issues. She is President of the Oregon Area Ehlers-Danlos Society and runs a monthly support group for those navigating HSD/EDS. She owns Good Health Physical Therapy & Wellness, a private practice specializing in connective tissue disorders and hypermobility in Portland, OR.
Ms Purdin is a Certified Manual Physical Therapist through NAIOMT. She uses a variety of manual therapy approaches and incorporates biomechanical concepts in her stabilization exercises and strengthening of patients. Her patient population is currently 95% patients who are hypermobile and/or have EDS.
Ms. Purdin has developed online courses through Medbridge and presented nationally for APTA (NEXT and CSM), and extensively in Oregon aiming to raise awareness of this condition in the medical and lay communities. She will be speaking about hip subluxations in EDS/HSD at the Ehlers-Danlos Society's International Learning Conference this summer in Philadephia. She released a book in 2023 with Dr. Patricia Stott, DPT called Taming the Zebra - It's Much More than Hypermobility which aims to educate patients and rehabilitation professionals in managing HSD/EDS.