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What causes joint hypermobility? It's thought that people with hypermobile joints may have stretchier elastic tissues in their bodies, particularly muscles and ligaments, than...
They are often treated in the same way. Joint changes Joints are loose and 'double-jointed' (hypermobile), so that they have a greater than normal range and de...
Injury to the knee may contribute - perhaps repeated small injuries or stresses due to sports, or due to slack ligaments (hypermobile joints). In older people it may develop as part of the...
Injury to the knee - including repeated small injuries or stresses due to sports, or due to slack ligaments (hypermobile joints). Having obesity or being overweight, and wearing unsupporti...
Particular care needs to be taken around trampolining and bouncy castles, which put particular strain on hypermobile joints. Children with hyperextensible joints typically do well in...
Joint hypermobility - hypermobility is particularly common in children but about 5% of adults have hypermobile joints. It can be caused by weak loose ligaments, weak muscles or shallow jo...
Joint Pain, What is joint pain? Joint pain is discomfort that arises from any joint. The medical word for joint pain is arthralgia . , Patella pain Ole...
Neuropathic Joints (Charcot Joints), hropathia neurotica, neuropathic arthritis/arthropathy, tabetic osteoarthropathy What are neuropathic joints? Neuropathic ...
Acromioclavicular Joint Problems, It is one of the important functional joints that allows a full range of movement at the glenohumeral joint. A joint capsule and s...
Hip Joint Replacements, What is a hip joint replacement? Hip joint replacement (hip arthroplasty) is the surgical replacement of all, or part, of the hip joint with an ...
Elbow Joint Replacement, Debridement techniques, including open or arthroscopic Outerbridge - Kashiwaghi procedure, often delay joint replacement. Implants for joint a...
Knee Joint Replacements, It is not possible to preserve the more physiological joint action with preservation of supporting ligaments, etc and the joint works like a fixed h...
Ankle Joint Replacements, What is ankle joint replacement? Ankle joint replacement is a newer operation than the well-established replacement operations for hip and k...
Shoulder Joint Replacements, Patients not responding to conservative treatments may require surgery, which may be either shoulder arthroplasty using a stemmed humeral head prosthesis, or fusi...
Joint Injection and Aspiration, Access to ultrasound to enable better targeting of steroid injections may improve efficacy. [ 3 ] Joint aspiration Indications for joint...
Hot Swollen Joints, Gout and septic arthritis generally present as a monoarthritis (although more than one joint can be involved), whereas reactive arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis tend ...
Aching Joints - Assessment, Investigations and Management in Primary Care, The prevalence was higher in boys than in girls and increased with age. 1.7% of the sample also complained of joint ...
Septic arthritis is an infection in a joint. Symptoms include pain and tenderness over a joint, pain on moving the joint, and feeling unwell. , Arthritis Septic arthritis ...
Surrounding ligaments and muscles also help to give support and stability to joints. In the knee joint, the cartilage covering the lower part of the joint is thickened in...
Arthritis may affect just one joint, a few joints or many joints. Each cause of arthritis tends to have a typical pattern in terms of which joints are affected and the age o...