Google News Alert - Hypermobility

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Google News Alert for: Hypermobility

ARTICULAR Hypermobility Protects Against Hand Osteoarthritis

Medscape (subscription) - USA

July 7, 2004 â? " Articular hypermobility protects against hand

osteoarthritis (OA), according to the results of a family-based study

published in the July ...

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/482804

ARTHRITIS Spares Flexible Fingers

Reuters - USA

.... The results are somewhat surprising since joint hypermobility has been

suspected of raising the risk of osteoarthritis, the form of arthritis

associated with ...

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=5610150

THE Surprising Role of Joint Flexibility in Osteoarthritis

Medical News Today - UK

Recently, a team of researchers, based at Duke University Medical Center,

found evidence to suggest that joint hypermobility, commonly called double

....

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=10356

BEING Double-Jointed May Protect Your Joints

Forbes - USA

.... On the basis of our results, we posit that hypermobility is one factor

influencing the pattern of the hand with gripping and pinching, even in

participants ...

http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/hscout/2004/07/06/hscout519904.html

THE many-sided physio

ic Huddersfield.co.uk - Huddersfield,England,UK

.... Patients may have lost some mobility because of rheumatic diseases but

we also see teenagers with hypermobility because their joint tissue is too

stretchy ...

http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0330features/tm_objectid=14406187\

&method=full&siteid=50060&headline=the-many-sided-physio-name_page.html

[Guest guest]

Hmmmm, not so sure about this. If you read the paper on the study it states

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" Hypermobility, defined as a Beighton score of at least 4 (total score range,

0-9), occurred in 3.7% of subjects on the present examination and in 7.4% of

subjects based on recall of past mobility in childhood. "

What the heck does " based on recall of past mobility in childhood " mean?

Everyone is flexible to the point of being hypermobile as children and real

hypermobile people do not 'get better with age'. They even state in study

limitations as smaller proportion of men, 'someones' inability to make

conclusions regarding the effects of hypermobility on DIP joints and possible

recall bias concerning past hypermobility.

I did have one ortho look at hand xrays and say he was surprised I didn't

have more OA than I did. As usual the docs look at us using common sense, the

oerative word being 'common'. We are nothing close to common :-) As with our

dislocations, the excessive movement in out joints actually makes for a less

violent occurance which would be the same for the wear and tear OA. Problem is

we have much more occurances so things do eventually catch up.

Hugs,

B.

HEDS, New Jersey, USA