Hypermobility of Joints

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Basic Aspects of Hypermobility

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction to Hypermobility

      • Peter Beighton, Rodney Grahame, Howard Bird

      Pages 3-8

   3. Assessment of Hypermobility

      • Peter Beighton, Rodney Grahame, Howard Bird

      Pages 9-24

   4. Histopathology and Collagen Chemistry in Hypermobility

      • Peter Beighton, Rodney Grahame, Howard Bird

      Pages 25-35

   5. Biomechanics of Hypermobility; Selected Aspects

      • Peter Beighton, Rodney Grahame, Howard Bird

      Pages 37-42

3. Clinical Aspects of Hypermobility

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43

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   2. Clinical Features of Hypermobility (Locomotor System and Extra-articular)

      • Peter Beighton, Rodney Grahame, Howard Bird

      Pages 45-60

   3. Management of Articular Complications in the Hypermobility Syndrome

      • Peter Beighton, Rodney Grahame, Howard Bird

      Pages 61-65

   4. Illustrative Case Histories

      • Peter Beighton, Rodney Grahame, Howard Bird

      Pages 67-95

   5. Hypermobility in the Performing Arts and Sport

      • Peter Beighton, Rodney Grahame, Howard Bird

      Pages 97-121

4. Inherited Hypermobility Syndromes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-124

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   2. Ehlers—Danlos Syndrome

      • Peter Beighton, Rodney Grahame, Howard Bird

      Pages 125-149

   3. Familial Undifferentiated Hypermobility Syndromes

      • Peter Beighton, Rodney Grahame, Howard Bird

      Pages 151-159

   4. Miscellaneous Joint Laxity Syndromes

      • Peter Beighton, Rodney Grahame, Howard Bird

      Pages 161-173

5. Back Matter

   Pages 175-178

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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.

• Colagen
• Erbkrankheit
• Gelenkbewegung
• Gelenkhypermobilität
• Hereditary disorders
• Hypermobility
• Joint laxitiy
• Kollagen
• biomechanics
• complication
• joint
• management
• pain
• pathology
• quality of life
• conservative orthopedics

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

• MRC Research Unit for Inherited Skeletal Disorders, Medical School and Groot Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, South Africa

  Peter Beighton

• Guy’s Hospital, London, England

  Rodney Grahame

• University of Leeds, Harrogate, England

  Howard Bird

• General Infirmary at Leeds and Royal Bath Hospital, Harrogate, England

  Howard Bird

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