hypermobile

American  

[hahy-per-moh-buhl, -moh-bahyl] / ˌhaɪ pərˈmoʊ bəl, -ˈmoʊ baɪl /

adjective

1. Medicine/Medical. having or showing hypermobility.

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Other Word Forms

• hypermobility noun
• non-hypermobile adjective

Example Sentences

Darcie expected to add epilepsy to her already long list of other diagnoses: migraine, anorexia, irritable bowel syndrome, autism, depression, anxiety, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, a fainting and dizziness problem called postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, or POTS, and a joint condition called hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

From Salon

“The biggest difference between a healthy person with naturally hypermobile joints and somebody diagnosed with hEDS,” she writes, “is that the latter probably experienced joint pain and went to a doctor for advice.”

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But hypermobile joints are common — one study estimates up to 30 percent of healthy people in their late teens and mid-20s have them — so O’Sullivan considers the diagnosis to be subjective.

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One condition she points to is hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, or hEDS, in which a person’s joints have an unusually large range of movement.

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Winn said that, in his own life, he suffers from chronic pain and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which made it difficult to hold down a job and, on some days, even get out of bed.

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