{"id":5797,"date":"2019-08-12T21:47:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T21:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportschirosanfran.com\/?p=5797"},"modified":"2020-12-25T19:48:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T19:48:18","slug":"hypermobility-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportschirosanfran.com\/hypermobility-sf\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Hypermobility Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Joint Hypermobility Syndrome | SF<\/a><\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Hypermobility means that your joints are more flexible than other people’s (you may think of yourself as being double jointed). When this causes pain, it might be joint hypermobility syndrome.<\/p>

People with high levels of flexibility often gravitate towards activities where flexibility is a goal or even rewarded.\u00a0 Think of activities such as dance, yoga, performance art, and the circus arts.\u00a0 This increased level of flexibility, however, comes at a price.\u00a0 If you are one of those amazingly flexible few, you need to consider how to age well and protect yourself from injury.<\/p>

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The Nuts and Bolts of Hypermobility<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Hypermobility usually comes up when I’m initially working on a patient.\u00a0 It may be really hard to get their joints to tension, or when I do an ankle adjustment<\/a> their knee<\/a> and hip<\/a> come along for the ride.\u00a0 They may not have that classic “double jointed” presentation, but it is distinctly noticeable.\u00a0 Your connective tissues don’t lie.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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COLLAGEN AND ELASTIN<\/h3>

Bare with me for a minute while we go down a scientific rabbit hole.\u00a0 It’s worth the trip.<\/p>

Your ligaments are comprised primarily of two types of protein, the aforementioned collagen and elastin.\u00a0 Collagen provides structural integrity while the Elastin is responsible for a ligament’s ability to stretch and deform.\u00a0 Without Collagen you would be a rubbery mess, and without Elastin you would be as stiff and the tin man.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

Your specific mix of Collagen and Elastin is dictated by a dozen or so genes.\u00a0 Thanks mom!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

Collagen and Elastin make up most of what we think of as being our soft and connective tissues: skin, fascia, ligaments, tendons, etc.\u00a0 Muscles are different because they also contain contractile elements.<\/p>

Ligaments, specifically, provide a supportive role.\u00a0 They hold your joints together, your organs in place, your teeth in their sockets…you get the idea.\u00a0 You can think of the texture of a ligament as being somewhat akin to that of saltwater taffy?\u00a0 It’s pretty darn tough, but if you keep at it you can get it to stretch.\u00a0 This quality is known as a ligament’s “creep.”\u00a0 The fibers are slow to lengthen, but under sustained stress they do.\u00a0 They don’t really snap back…a good analogy is when you overstretch the elastic in your sock.\u00a0 It does the job, but that sucker is going to sag.<\/p>