Double jointedness can cause a wide range of problems because the muscles around the joints have to work much harder to provide stability - Getty When Jan Kiley was a child, even the slightest of ...

Among modern medicine’s most awesome feats is the replacement of aching, worn-out natural cartilage-on-bone bodily joints with smooth-functioning artificial ceramic-over-metal replicas, sometimes two ...

A prospective study by U.K. researchers found that adolescents who are double-jointed-- medically termed joint hypermobility -- are at greater risk for developing musculoskeletal pain as they get ...

Can your thumb reach back to your arm? Can you bend your arm flat against your back? If so, people might call you double-jointed. In reality, people are not double-jointed; some are just flexible and ...

If you’re double jointed, it means you have a joint that can bend a lot more than in the average person. This has its upsides and downsides: apart from being a great party trick to show to friends, it ...

DEAR DOCTOR K: This may be a silly question, but here goes: Do people who are “double-jointed” have twice as many joints? DEAR READER: I can see how you might think that. If the question is silly it’s ...

People who are ‘double jointed,’ a condition formally known as generalised joint hypermobility, may be at heightened risk of long COVID, suggests a case-control study published in the open access ...

Can you bend your fingers backwards nearly 90 degrees? You may be at a greater risk of long Covid. That's according to a fascinating study in the UK that indicates people who are double-jointed are at ...

Double-jointedness is a cool party trick that elicits many "oohs" and "aahs." Yes, anytime that a person can bend their fingers to touch the back of their hand, bend their knee joints backwards, or ...