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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Double-jointed teens are more likely than their less flexible peers to develop shoulder, knee or ankle pain, suggests a large, new study from the UK. Apart from the ...

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 ...

Patients who are “double-jointed” may be at higher risk for developing long COVID, according to a study published March 19 in BMJ Public Health. U.K. researchers analyzed survey data from 3,064 people ...