Hypermobility
Hypermobility or hyperflexibility refers to the mobility of the joints and ligaments beyond what is normal for age and gender. This property has no disease value per se.
There are different types of hypermobility:
- the local, so limited to certain body sections hypermobility, the result z. B. may be an injury,
- generalized hypermobility, which affects all areas of the motor system and z. B. it can be caused by a congenital connective tissue weakness such as Marfan syndrome or by certain diseases such as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome ,
- and the essential hypermobility, which is also innate, but for which there is no discernible cause.
The latter form of hypermobility occurs more frequently in girls (approx. 15% of women) than in boys. The cause of this form of hypermobility is suspected to be a central nervous malfunction of the movement programs, which leads to the movements being not coordinated properly and therefore laxity.
The cause of hypermobility cannot be eliminated. It is usually hereditary. If it has a disease value (i.e. causes complaints) it is referred to as hypermobility syndrome .
Individual evidence
- ↑ HV Firth et al: Oxford desk reference: clinical genetics. Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-19-262896-8 , p. 138, (online)
- ↑ CD Forbes and others: Color Atlas of Internal Medicine. Fischer-Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-437-41212-7 , p. 140, (online)
