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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 older, ...

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 ...