The POTScast

Dr. Kamal Chemali is an autonomic neurologist, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Autonomic Nervous system Program at Case Western Reserve University. He started studying the piano at age seven and today is a conservatory-trained pianist who still performs. Dr. Chémali’s firm belief in the power of music in connecting people and in healing disease led him to start the Doctor-Patient Music Connection Program, where physicians and musicians perform for patients in the hospital, and also the award-winning Music and the Brain™ Concert-Lectures. He was the co-founder of the Cleveland Clinic Arts and Medicine Institute and the Founding Director of the Sentara Music and Medicine Center. Today he is the Medical Director of the Music and Medicine Program in the Neurological Institute at Case Western Reserve University. In this episode he discusses what is known about the power of music to affect mood, heart rate, pain, energy, and his research into how aspects of music, such as tempo or harmony, may affect the body. He discusses music therapy and shares his personal favorite pieces of music with us. If you liked this episode, we hope you will click subscribe so that you don't miss an episode. If you are so moved, donations are accepted to help to support our production costs https://www.standinguptopots.org/donate Tell us what you think of The POTScast or send us your idea at info@standinguptopots.org! Find out more about Standing Up to POTS! Check us out on our Website: www.standinguptopots.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/standinguptopots/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/standinguptopots/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/POTSActivist Medical Disclaimer: The information provided here is not intended to serve as professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you have health related issues, please contact a qualified health professional to get the personalized assessment, advice, and treatment that you need. Standing Up to POTS will not be liable for any direct, indirect, or other damages arising from the use of this podcast.

Joanna Behm, EDD OTR/L and Madison Thornton, OTD, OTR/L are experts in occupational therapy (OT) as therapists, dysautonomia patients, and Joanna is even a professor of OT. Together they created a workbook that first shares the latest evidence and then leads readers through a series of worksheets and questions to help them find their best OT-based solutions and routines for living better with dysautonomia and related challenges. In this episode they explain occupational therapy, the workbook, and share many examples of how patients can get the most from it, and from an OT mindset in general. The Dysautonomia Workbook is available here, and other handbooks and handouts created by Joanna and her team are available here. If you liked this episode, we hope you will click subscribe so that you don't miss an episode. If you are so moved, donations are accepted to help to support our production costs https://www.standinguptopots.org/donate Tell us what you think of The POTScast or send us your idea at info@standinguptopots.org! Find out more about Standing Up to POTS! Check us out on our Website: www.standinguptopots.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/standinguptopots/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/standinguptopots/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/POTSActivist Pintrest: https://www.pinterest.com/TheStandingUpToPOTS/ Medical Disclaimer: The information provided here is not intended to serve as professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you have health related issues, please contact a qualified health professional to get the personalized assessment, advice, and treatment that you need. Standing Up to POTS will not be liable for any direct, indirect, or other damages arising from the use of this podcast.

Surviving severe COVID was just beginning of Sophie's health adventure. She discusses her unexpected COVID-related medical challenges, new job and living situation, the stenting procedure that helped (but not as much as hoped), how she has adjusted to her new situation and how it all has made her even better at her work in healthcare. If you liked this episode, we hope you will click subscribe so that you don't miss an episode. If you are so moved, donations are accepted to help to support our production costs https://www.standinguptopots.org/donate Tell us what you think of The POTScast or send us your idea at info@standinguptopots.org! Find out more about Standing Up to POTS! Check us out on our Website: www.standinguptopots.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/standinguptopots/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/standinguptopots/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/POTSActivist Pintrest: https://www.pinterest.com/TheStandingUpToPOTS/ Medical Disclaimer: The information provided here is not intended to serve as professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you have health related issues, please contact a qualified health professional to get the personalized assessment, advice, and treatment that you need. Standing Up to POTS will not be liable for any direct, indirect, or other damages arising from the use of this podcast.

Western folk singer-songwriter Nellie has recorded multiple albums and EPs, toured nationally from Alaska to Nashville, appeared on PBS’s Songs at the Center, opened for Grammy-nominated artists, and become a beloved regular at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. Most recently, she was profiled in Forbes for her life as an artist living with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, bringing huge mainstream attention to POTS in the process. In this episode she shares her thoughts, experiences and wisdom on living with POTS, adjusting to major life changes, staying strong, redefining oneself and much more. Nellie's article in Forbes is here. Nellie's "Freedom Song" music video is here. Nellie's music is available for purchase here. If you liked this episode, we hope you will click subscribe so that you don't miss an episode. If you are so moved, donations are accepted to help to support our production costs https://www.standinguptopots.org/donate Tell us what you think of The POTScast or send us your idea at info@standinguptopots.org! Find out more about Standing Up to POTS! Check us out on our Website: www.standinguptopots.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/standinguptopots/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/standinguptopots/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/POTSActivist Pintrest: https://www.pinterest.com/TheStandingUpToPOTS/ Medical Disclaimer: The information provided here is not intended to serve as professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you have health related issues, please contact a qualified health professional to get the personalized assessment, advice, and treatment that you need. Standing Up to POTS will not be liable for any direct, indirect, or other damages arising from the use of this podcast.

Vascular surgeons Dr. Robert Hacker and Dr. Deena Chihade share their unusual path to POTS via looking at the venous system, and explain what they are seeing in patients before and after addressing venous compression syndromes such as May Thurner Syndrome and Nutcracker Syndrome. Dr. Hacker estimates that venous obstructions may play a role in more POTS patients than previously thought, and Dr. Chihade shares the research study she presented at the Dysautonomia International poster session. Both doctors explain how their clinic tests and treats patients for potential compressions and what the stenting procedure is like. Their website is https://stlvascular.com/. If you liked this episode, we hope you will click subscribe so that you don't miss an episode. If you are so moved, donations are accepted to help to support our production costs https://www.standinguptopots.org/donate Tell us what you think of The POTScast or send us your idea at info@standinguptopots.org! Find out more about Standing Up to POTS! Check us out on our Website: www.standinguptopots.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/standinguptopots/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/standinguptopots/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/POTSActivist Pintrest: https://www.pinterest.com/TheStandingUpToPOTS/ Medical Disclaimer: The information provided here is not intended to serve as professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you have health related issues, please contact a qualified health professional to get the personalized assessment, advice, and treatment that you need. Standing Up to POTS will not be liable for any direct, indirect, or other damages arising from the use of this podcast. Medical Disclaimer: The information provided here is not intended to serve as professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you have health related issues, please contact a qualified health professional to get the personalized assessment, advice, and treatment that you need. Standing Up to POTS will not be liable for any direct, indirect, or other damages arising from the use of this podcast.