Hypermobility Syndrome

I am a sufferer of Hypermobility and have been really flexible all my life without knowing what I was doing to my body. Hyper mobility is a condition where the connective tissues such as ligaments are not as stong and can be extremely strechy and dont protect the joints very well making it easy for people with the condition to substain injury. It can be passed through families or through stress of exercise such as gymnastics, ballet where you really push your body. There is different verisions, some people are just bendy, some are bendy with painful joints or a lot of clicking and some people have it serverly where it can damage internally. I have ...  Read the complete review

Hi Tracy, I have just joined today so I can thank you properly. This information was so useful to me. I'm going in for plastic injections in my spine and sacroilliac joints on Saturday. I've been so worried about having the procedure and feel that I need to know why I am in such pain and you have explained everything so well, I am sure I have hypermobility syndrome. I've always been bendy and double jointed since a child especially in my fingers and elbows. When I was a kid, I used to flip my hips out of joint when doing the splits, and now I can see why that was sooo wrong with hindsight.

Thanks so much Tracy, I'm so glad I'm not alone but so sorry you suffer so badly too.

Hugs

Emma xxx

I am a sufferer of hypermobility syndrome and it is very painful. People with hypermobility have weaker connective tissue such as ligaments that allow joints to go beyond their normal range of movement which in turn causes inflammation around the joints and the muscles to become overworked. Because we have no idea of the normal range of movement we also lose our sense of position which is called proprioception. The usual method of determining if someone has hypermobile joints is the Beighton score which involves checking if you can bend over and touch the floor with the palms of your hands without bending your knees, checking elbows and knees for ...  Read the complete review

***WHAT IS HYPER-MOBILITY?*** Hypermobility describes joints that stretch further than normal. For example some Hyper-mobile people can bend their thumbs backwards to their wrists, bend their knee joints backwards, or put their leg behind their head. It can effect a single joint or multiple joints throughout the body. The condition tends to run in families, suggesting that there may be a genetic basis for at least some forms of hypermobility. The term double jointed is often used to describe hypermobility, however the name is a misnomer and is not to be taken literally, as an individual with hypermobility in a joint does not actually have two separate ...  Read the complete review