Google News Alert - Hypermobility

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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