what to expect at Hypermobility Consulting

Hypermobility Consulting will partner with your Primary Care Physician (PCP) or primary care clinician to implement your specific care plan. Your PCP will know your care plan and should be your first contact for your health care needs. Through an enduring partnership, your PCP can help you prevent, understand, and manage illness, navigate the health system and set health goals. They can adapt the care plan to your unique needs. This doctor-patient relationship is key to providing the best care for you. Dr. Lamps believes strongly is the value and role of Primary Care in your health!

Dr. Lamps provides comprehensive consultation, guidance, education, and recommendations to you and your PCP. This will include a personalized care plan with specific recommendations for evaluation, treatment, and management of your health. However, Dr. Lamps does not place orders, referrals, or prescriptions for your care.  Your PCP will work with you to implement this plan. This approach allows you to get care closer to home, with your primary care team, and within your primary health insurance coverage network.

Your PCP will need to:

• Prescribe medications
• Order laboratory studies
• Order testing such as echocardiogram, ECG, other imaging tests
• Coordinate referrals (e.g. Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, medical specialists)
• Follow up your progress
• Manage your day to day health care needs

There are several advantages to this approach of Dr. Lamps partnering with your PCP:

• Your PCP knows you best!
• Health outcomes are best when managed by a PCP instead of multiple specialists
• Out of pocket costs to the patient can be minimized
• Dr. Lamps can serve and take care of many more total patients suffering from hEDS, HSD, and related conditions by providing her expertise and personalized care plan for your PCP to implement. This frees up her time to see more new consultations and help as many patients as possible
• Dr. Lamps can educate PCPs about hypermobility diagnosis and hypermobility care, allowing these clinicians to diagnose more hypermobility patients and care for more hypermobility patients

One of the goals of Hypermobility Consulting is to provide education about hEDS, HSD, and related conditions to physicians across the country, to improve awareness within the medical community of these conditions, and to ultimately improve access to patients with these conditions to informed medical care. There are so many patients with hypermobility that need this care, we just need to get their doctors comfortable and educated to provide this care!