Hypermobility (joints)

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Hypermobility, also known as double-jointedness, describes joints that stretch further than normal. For example, some hypermobile people can bend their thumbs backwards to their wrists, bend their knee joints backwards, put their leg behind the head, or perform other contortionist "tricks". It can affect one or more joints throughout the body. Hypermobile joints are common and occur in about 10 to 25% of the population. Most have no other issues. In a minority of people, pain and other symptoms are present. In some cases, hypermobile joints are a feature of connective tissue disorders. One of these, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, was classified into several types which have been found to be genetic. Hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (hEDS), formerly called EDS Type 3, remains the only EDS variant without a diagnostic DNA test. In 2016, the diagnostic criteria for hEDS were re-written to be more restrictive, with the intent of narrowing the pool of hEDS patients, in the hope of making it easier...

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