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Hypermobility, better termed joint laxity, is common in dancers. It has attracted attention ever since Grahame’s seminal 1972 paper [1]. There it was argued then that although joint laxity “probably represents the upper end of a spectrum of the range of normal joint mobility,” joint hypermobility “may” have positive advantages for ballet dancers, but may also be associated with “its known adverse sequelae”. Since then, further papers have published sometimes bleak sounding conclusions that further support this impression.
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Bird, H.A. (2016). Hypermobility in Dance; Asset Not Liability?. In: Performing Arts Medicine in Clinical Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12427-8_9
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