Woman whose shoulder dislocates by just picking something up details daily agony as her body doesn’t ‘hold together’-Meghna Amin-Entertainment – Metro

A woman whose joints dislocate on a daily basis has detailed her agony as her body doesn’t ‘hold together’.

Crack Addicts follows medical professional Dr. Alessandra Colón ‘healing patients with the power of chiropractic adjustment and a big sense of humor.’

From a woman wearing a ‘cinching steel’ corset for 16 hours a day, to a patient who can’t stop farting, Dr Colón seeks to give clients as much relief as possible, although, in an upcoming episode, that could only last for less than a day.

‘So I’m taking a look at your medical history here, and I immediately see that you have EDS,’ she begins to her new patient.

Ehlers-Danlos syndromes, according to the NHS, are a group of rare inherited conditions that can affect connective tissue, which provide support in skin, tendons, ligaments, as well as blood vessels, organs and bones.

‘Somebody with EDS could literally pick something up and their shoulder just dislocates,’ Dr Colón explains.

The patient suffers from EDS (Picture: TLC)

Dr Alessandra Colón fronts Crack Addicts (Picture: TLC)

‘It’s not a comfortable way to live.’

Describing her pain, the patient admits it’s ‘everywhere’.

‘From my skin, to behind my eyes, my jaw, everything hurts.

‘A lot of it comes from muscular skeletal pain.’

She adds that her pain in that moment is an ‘eight’.

Dr Colón replies: ‘The primary concern is the chronic pain that we’re having is obviously enough to make you want to be in a wheelchair.’

Her tissue ‘pulls apart’ more than other people (Picture: TLC)

The patient goes on to say that having a wheelchair would ‘logistically’ help with dislocations as well as conserve her energy.

‘It allows me to do the things that I not only want to do, but need to do in life.

‘My best day, could probably be a four out of ten in pain, and with that I could probably push myself to do anything I’ve done in my life so far, without a lot of pain.

‘But your worst day could be now, it’s unpredictable, it’s scary.’

She continues: ‘Nothing in my body is holding together the way it should be.’

Dr Colón is ready for the challenge (Picture: TLC)

‘It’s not a comfortable way to live.’ (Picture: TLC)

The patient displays how her tissue is ‘pulled apart’ compared to normal people, meaning it’s ‘stretching way more than a normal person’s would’.

She says: ‘My bones come out daily, and they go back in, and usually they’d stay for a little bit and then they’d pop out.

‘But this left shoulder, I can pop it in, but you can see it pop back out.’

‘There’s a really long road ahead,’ Dr Colón warns.

‘I have no doubt of that, and on a chiropractic level, I’m reading your medical history and I’m kind of freaking out.’

The patient replies: ‘The miracle would be for you to realign or to fix something, and get it to stay for longer than 24hours. That’s never happened.’

She adds: ‘Any kind of relief will be a feat for me.’

‘It would be life changing,’ she tearfully tells the camera.

‘Coming from someone who has been this way their whole life, and no one in the medical community will listen to you, it’s hard to be hopeful.

‘But at this point, I would do anything.’

Warning Dr Colón that she may pass out during the procedures, she reveals: ‘My code word is timber if I’m going to pass out.’

Crack Addicts airs on TLC in America.

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