Knees, wrists and ankles can also be easily strained or sprained. “A giveaway that people are hypermobile is that they frequently roll over on their ankles,” she says.

The results showed 4.6% of children had hypermobile joints by age 14 and 45% of them reported joint pain that lasted one day or more at the age of 18 years. Among the participants, 16.1% had low ...

Features There are a series of symptoms that can result from hypermobility. Patients with joint hypermobility suffer with recurrent subluxations (incomplete dislocation), dislocation, and connected ...

When to contact a doctor Hypermobility does not always cause negative symptoms, such as pain or joint dislocations. For some, it simply causes very flexible joints with no complications.

It also seems some physicians confuse hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome with “ benign joint hypermobility syndrome ” and dismiss some of the problems that accompany it.

Variant connective tissue (joint hypermobility) and its relevance to depression and anxiety in adolescents: a cohort-based case–control study. BMJ Open, 2022; 12 (12): e066130 DOI: 10.1136 ...

Viewpoint Published: 02 September 2008 Hypermobility: an important but often neglected area within rheumatology Rodney Grahame Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology 4, 522–524 (2008) Cite this ...