Brown's syndrome is characterized by a limitation of elevation in adduction, slight or normal limitation of elevation in abduction, divergence in straight upgaze (V-pattern), intorsion in upgaze and positive forced duction. It is caused by a tight or inelastic superior oblique tendon. Benign joint hypermobility is a hereditary disease of the connective tissue characterized by an increase of mob...

Sirs Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) hypermobility type (EDS-HT), now corresponding to the joint hypermobility syndrome (JHS), is an apparently rare, but largely underdiagnosed inherited rheumatologic condition characterised by joint hypermobility (JHM) and related musculoskeletal, pelvic, dysautonomic and gastrointestinal features (1). In addition, recent studies highlight that fatigue and chroni...

Joint hypermobility is overrepresented among people with anxiety and can be associated with abnormal autonomic reactivity. We tested for associations between regional cerebral grey matter and hypermobility in 72 healthy volunteers using voxel-based morphometry of structural brain scans. Strikingly, bilateral amygdala volume distinguished those with from those without hypermobility. The hypermob...

OBJECTIVES To study the impact of articular hypermobility on the clinical and radiological features of hand osteoarthritis (OA) and to investigate whether hand osteoarthritis associated with hypermobility should be considered a separate subset of hand OA. METHODS Fifty consecutive female patients with clinical hand OA and thumb base symptoms were examined for hypermobility according to the Be...

OBJECTIVES To test the hypothesis that joint hypermobility may play a part in the pathogenesis of pain in fibromyalgia, schoolchildren were examined for the coexistence of joint hypermobility and fibromyalgia. METHODS The study group consisted of 338 children (179 boys, 159 girls; mean age 11.5 years, range 9-15 years) from one public school in Beer-Sheva, Israel. In the assessment of joint h...

Background Hypermobile joints are a common yet under-recognized cause of noninflammatory joint pains. Patients with display range movement that is considered excessive, considering their age, gender, and ethnic background [1]. may be asymptomatic or associated pain, fatigue, multisystemic complaints, significant disability. In this study, we look at the clinical profile patients hypermobile who...