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Introduction to Hypermobility

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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 Iranian horse-riding nomads inhabiting the region that now forms the Ukraine, 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, Cape Town, South Africa

    Peter Beighton (OMB, MD, PhD FRCP, FRSSA)

  2. Department of Rheumatolgy, University College Hospital, London, United Kingdom

    Rodney Grahame (CBE, MD, FRCP, FACP)

  3. Department of Musculo–Skeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

    Howard Bird (MA, MD, FRCP)

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Beighton, P., Grahame, R., Bird, H. (2012). Introduction to Hypermobility. In: Hypermobility of Joints. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-085-2_1

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