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Introduction to Hypermobility

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Hypermobility of Joints

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The first clinical description of articular hypermobility is attributed to Hippocrates, who, in the fourth century B.C., described the Scythians, a race of people inhabiting the region that now forms the Ukraine and Czechoslovakia, as having humidity, flabbiness and atony such that they were unable to use their weapons. Their main problem in warfare was that hyperlaxity of the elbow and shoulder joints prevented them from drawing their bows effectively.

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  1. Department of Human Genetics, University of Cape Town Medical School, Observatory 7925, Cape Town, South Africa

    Peter Beighton MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCPCH, FRSSA

  2. Hypermobility Clinic, UCL Hospitals, 40-50 Tottenham Street, W1P 9PG, London, UK

    Rodney Grahame CBE, MD, FRCP, FACP

  3. Clinical Pharmacology Unit, University of Leeds, Chapel Allerton Hospital, Chapeltown Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS7 4SA, UK

    Howard Bird MA, MD, FRCP

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Beighton, P., Grahame, R., Bird, H. (1999). Introduction to Hypermobility. In: Hypermobility of Joints. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3633-0_1

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