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Joint hypermobility linked to longer COVID-19 recovery time

Study shows that individuals with generalized joint hypermobility have a 30% higher risk of not recovering from acute COVID-19, highlighting the need for tailored treatment and care.

20 Mar 2024

Unlocking the Future of Mental Health Research: An Exclusive Interview with the CEO of MQ Mental Health Research

An Exclusive Interview with the CEO of MQ Mental Health Research.

9 Oct 2023

What are the major findings of long COVID research?

Researchers explored existing literature on long coronavirus disease (COVID). They highlighted key immunological findings, similarities with other diseases, symptoms, and associated pathophysiological mechanisms, and diagnostic and therapeutic options, including COVID-19 vaccinations.

17 Jan 2023

Scientists discover a gene defect that results in allergic and autoimmune disease

Inflammation of the skin and the esophagus, food allergy and asthma are just some of the symptoms of a now 12-year-old boy who was the first to have a mutation on the IL-33 gene. An international team led by a physician from the Karl Landsteiner University for Health Sciences, Krems, discovered this new disease entity.

26 May 2022

Mapping proteo-genomic connections between different human diseases

Hundreds of connections between different human diseases have been uncovered through their shared origin in our genome by an international research team led by scientists from the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge, challenging the categorization of diseases by organ, symptoms, or clinical specialty.

15 Oct 2021

$Researchers report a new genetic cause for infantile fractures$

Researchers report a new genetic cause for infantile fractures

An intrauterine fracture is a rare finding during routine prenatal imaging. This condition can be due to maternal trauma, genetic disorders of the skeleton, as well as other predisposing maternal metabolic and vascular disorders.

18 Jun 2021

Increased hydroxyproline levels may be associated with joint hypermobility in autistic children

A team of researchers found out that children with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) have increased levels of the amino acid hydroxyproline.

29 Sep 2020

Study offers potential targets for treating people with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome

Researchers have discovered that a defective form of the protein aortic carboxypeptidase-like protein (ACLP) from patients with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) is retained in cells and induces cellular stress.

4 Jun 2020

The Ehlers-Danlos Society Center opens at IU Health to advance research and patient care

The Ehlers-Danlos Society is pleased to announce the opening of The Ehlers-Danlos Society Center at IU Health, committed to advancing research, education and patient care for those living with the Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS), hypermobility spectrum disorders (HSD), and associated symptoms and conditions.

8 Oct 2019

Link between hip joint hypermobility and behavioral alterations also found in non-human species

The relation between collagen laxity and anxiety in humans is widely known, but this relation has never been observed before in other species.

20 Jun 2019

Etiologies of growing pains

If you are a parent who has been awakened from slumber with a child crying in pain, you can understand my distress at watching my son wake up in pain night after night.

14 Jun 2018

Study highlights maternity care concerns for pregnant women with Ehlers-Danlos syndromes

Maternity care for pregnant women with Ehlers-Danlos syndromes 'must improve', researchers say.

5 Apr 2018

Physical exercises before and during pregnancy effective in reducing low back, pelvic pain

Pregnancy changes a woman's body in different ways, including the muscles, ligaments, bones, and joints that make up the musculoskeletal system.

4 Sep 2015

New study shows frequent travel promotes stress, loneliness, and long-term health problems

Researchers from the University of Surrey and Lund University (Sweden) investigated how frequent, long-distance travel is represented in mass and social media.

4 Aug 2015

SUNY Downstate Medical Center researchers identify ALPIM syndrome as new spectrum disorder

The relationship between mental and physical health is well established. But when mental and physical illnesses co-occur, patients' accounts of physical illness are sometimes arbitrarily discredited or dismissed by physicians.

10 Jul 2015

Riding roller coasters can trigger stroke in children

Riding a couple roller coasters at an amusement park appears to have triggered an unusual stroke in a 4-year-old boy, according to a report in the journal Pediatric Neurology.

11 Dec 2014

Double-jointed teens at risk for later pain

Adolescents who have hypermobile joints or are “double jointed” are more likely to develop moderate to severe joint pain in later years, show study findings.

28 Feb 2013

Hypermobile children at greater risk for joint pain as they get older

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, particularly in the shoulders, knees, ankles and feet. Findings published in Arthritis & Rheumatism, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), indicate that children with joint hypermobility are approximately twice as likely to develop pain at these joints.

28 Feb 2013

Adolescents with joint hypermobility more likely to develop musculoskeletal pain

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, particularly in the shoulders, knees, ankles and feet.

28 Feb 2013

$Repetitive impact on feet can increase risk of stress fractures$

Repetitive impact on feet can increase risk of stress fractures

Stress fractures of the foot are becoming more common in runners, especially first-time marathoners, according to the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons.

25 Jun 2010

Hypermobility News and Research

Joint hypermobility linked to longer COVID-19 recovery time

Unlocking the Future of Mental Health Research: An Exclusive Interview with the CEO of MQ Mental Health Research

What are the major findings of long COVID research?

Scientists discover a gene defect that results in allergic and autoimmune disease

Mapping proteo-genomic connections between different human diseases

Researchers report a new genetic cause for infantile fractures

Increased hydroxyproline levels may be associated with joint hypermobility in autistic children

Study offers potential targets for treating people with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome

The Ehlers-Danlos Society Center opens at IU Health to advance research and patient care

Link between hip joint hypermobility and behavioral alterations also found in non-human species

Etiologies of growing pains

Study highlights maternity care concerns for pregnant women with Ehlers-Danlos syndromes

Physical exercises before and during pregnancy effective in reducing low back, pelvic pain

New study shows frequent travel promotes stress, loneliness, and long-term health problems

SUNY Downstate Medical Center researchers identify ALPIM syndrome as new spectrum disorder

Riding roller coasters can trigger stroke in children

Double-jointed teens at risk for later pain

Hypermobile children at greater risk for joint pain as they get older

Adolescents with joint hypermobility more likely to develop musculoskeletal pain

Repetitive impact on feet can increase risk of stress fractures

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

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