Joint hypermobility syndrome, popularly known as being double-jointed, may be a common but underrecognized disorder in adults that is difficult to diagnose and often mistaken for fibromyalgia or other ...

About 1 in 5 people have Generalized Joint Hypermobility (GJH), which means nearly 20 percent of backpackers could have joints that can move farther than the "normal" range of motion. Although many ...

Adolescents with hypermobility spectrum disorder or hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome showed levels of physical activity below that of their healthy peers. Adolescents aged 13 to 17 years with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Psychological interventions can significantly reduce pain-related fear and the physical impacts of pain in ...

Connective tissue is found throughout the human body, within and between structures as varied as muscles, nerves and internal organs. Like an elaborate web, it holds everything together—providing the ...

Correspondence to Dr Behnam Liaghat, Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense 5230, Denmark; bliaghat{at}health.sdu.dk Objectives To investigate ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Last week we discussed muscle engagement and posture, and I briefly mentioned hypermobility.