The 5-Part Questionnaire To Screen For Hypermotility Along With Links To The Breighton Score For Assessing Hypermotility From The Ehlers-Danlos Society

In this post, I excerpt The 5-Part Questionnaire To Screen For Hypermotility and I link to Assessing Joint Hypermotility from The Ehlers-Danlos Society.

Here is The 5-Part Questionnaire To Screen For Hypermobility.

Can you now [or could you ever] place your hands flat on the floor without bending your knees?

Can you now [or could you ever] bend your thumb to touch your forearm?

As a child, did you amuse your friends by contorting your body into strange shapes or could you do the splits?

As a child or teenager, did your kneecap or shoulder dislocate on more than one occasion?

Do you consider yourself “double-jointed”?

Answering yes to 2 or more of these questions suggests hypermobility (sense 85%, spec 90%)

ASSESSING JOINT HYPERMOBILITY

THE BEIGHTON SCORING SYSTEM

 The Beighton Scoring System measures joint hypermobility on a 9-point scale. The joints assessed are:

  • Knuckle of both little/fifth/pinky fingers
  • Base of both thumbs
  • Elbows
  • Knees
  • Spine

Where applicable, range of movement is measured using a goniometer, an instrument that measures the joint angle.

Assessing Joint Hypermobility with the Beighton Scale, 2:53, Mar 3, 2017

 

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