Overview
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Peter Beighton
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MRC Research Unit for Inherited Skeletal Disorders, Medical School and Groot Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Rodney Grahame
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Guy’s Hospital, London, England
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Howard Bird
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University of Leeds, Harrogate, England
General Infirmary at Leeds and Royal Bath Hospital, Harrogate, England
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xiii
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Basic Aspects of Hypermobility
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- Peter Beighton, Rodney Grahame, Howard Bird
Pages 3-8
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- Peter Beighton, Rodney Grahame, Howard Bird
Pages 9-24
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- Peter Beighton, Rodney Grahame, Howard Bird
Pages 25-35
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- Peter Beighton, Rodney Grahame, Howard Bird
Pages 37-42
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Clinical Aspects of Hypermobility
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- Peter Beighton, Rodney Grahame, Howard Bird
Pages 45-60
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- Peter Beighton, Rodney Grahame, Howard Bird
Pages 61-65
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- Peter Beighton, Rodney Grahame, Howard Bird
Pages 67-95
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- Peter Beighton, Rodney Grahame, Howard Bird
Pages 97-121
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Inherited Hypermobility Syndromes
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Front Matter
Pages 123-124
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- Peter Beighton, Rodney Grahame, Howard Bird
Pages 125-149
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- Peter Beighton, Rodney Grahame, Howard Bird
Pages 151-159
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- Peter Beighton, Rodney Grahame, Howard Bird
Pages 161-173
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Back Matter
Pages 175-178
About this book
Although those of us (and particularly orthopaedists and rheumatologists) who deal with locomotor diseases in man are concerned mainly with stiffness and limitation of movement affecting not only livelihood but also the quality of life-from time to time we see patients suffering from too much of a good thing, whose joints are too freely mobile for the good of the whole man. In most instances, at least in youth, the benefit outweighs the debit. Many hypermobile people in the performing world ballet dancers, circus gymnasts, musicians and sportsmen and women-have delighted audiences over 20 centuries with their unusual ability, prowess and postures. Some types of acquired hypermobility can, however, be disadvantageous, an example being tabes dorsalis with its flaccid joints and perhaps pain as well. In a similar way the restored-to-normal mobility of treated rheumatoid patients (whether by prednisone or longer term drugs such as penicillamine or gold) must be considered abnormal-as hypermobility for that patient which in the long term may hasten secondary arthrotic changes. This treatise deals, however, with the abnormally mobile, either as an effect of inherited connective tissue abnormality or as one end of the normal range of mobility, without any obvious connective tissue change. It comes at a fecund time in our knowledge of the intricacies of the collagen molecule, with intriguing questions concerning the development of local type specific structures. The fibroblast may yet expand to the same diversity as the once humble lymphocyte.
Reviews
From the reviews of the first edition: "This little book deals with a somewhat neglected subject and will prove useful in a number of ways." British Journal of Plastic Surgery #1 "This is a delightful book full of stimulating ideas, by three authors who have pooled their thoughts and the results of their studies." Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine #2
Authors and Affiliations
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MRC Research Unit for Inherited Skeletal Disorders, Medical School and Groot Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Peter Beighton
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Guy’s Hospital, London, England
Rodney Grahame
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University of Leeds, Harrogate, England
Howard Bird
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General Infirmary at Leeds and Royal Bath Hospital, Harrogate, England
Howard Bird
