RESOURCES & FURTHER DISCOVERY
If you have attended one of our conference presentations or workshops, please click here for cited sources and references.
Quick Reference Guides (Q.R.G.)
Q.R.G. to POTS
The Chronically Singing Team has put together this free quick reference guide to understanding POTS and how it may affect singers. Feel free to download and share!
Q.R.G. to EDS and Hypermobility
The Chronically Singing Team has put together this free quick reference guide to understanding EDS and Hypermobility Disorders, and how they may affect singers. Feel free to download and share!
Disclosure: A Delicate Balance
Disclosure can be complicated.
This blog post includes two Mad Libs-style templates that can be used to get the conversation started with your teachers and directors.
Recognizing the Invisible
Read Marita Stryker’s 2024 Doctoral dissertation - a mixed methods study about Singing with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, including six case study interviews and survey results.
Additional Resources We Love
Compiled by Marita Stryker, DMA, PAVA-RV, and Joanne Bozeman, BM
POTS and Dysautonomia
Cleveland Clinic - POTS Overview
HSD and hEDS
BAPAM FactSheet: Hypermobility
● 2017 EDS International Classification
● Healthcare Professional Directory
● Speech, language, Voice and Swallowing in the Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes
Books
● The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD
● Breath by James Nestor
● Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke
● The Driscoll Theory Newly Revised by Diane Driscoll
● Explain Pain by David Butler
● Hypermobility Without Tears by Jeannie Di Bon
● The Illuminated Breath by Dylan Werner
● Suggestible You by Erik Vance
● This Is Your Brain on Food by Uma Naidoo
● Wired for Healing by Annie Hopper
Podcasts and YouTube Videos
Grace Drummond’s Recital (Classical singer with POTS)
“How a Disabled Performer has Redefined their Success in the Industry” - Podcast
Robin Hahn - Opera Singer with hEDS
PT and Healing from Chronic Pain - Podcast
Diagnosing Callas - What Really Happened to Her Voice? [Could it have been EDS?]
Products
Heal with Tracy - Online body awareness, team-approach
Body Braid - Posture Support System for Hypermobility
Insight Timer - Meditation App
Ten Percent Happier - Meditation Podcast and Courses