Help! I'm Hypermobile

Behind the Beighton Scale


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Today we're talking all about the famous Beighton Scale!🤩


Unfortunately like many things involving hypermobility, the Beighton Scale ends up resulting in a lot of confusion and frustration for hypermobile people❤️‍🩹


In this episode we talk about👇

  • WHAT the Beighton Scale is (and what it isn't!)
  • the HISTORY of the Beighton Scale (including a love story!)
  • and WHY the Beighton Scale causes so many problems for hypermobile people (and what YOU can do about them!)

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    Best wishes in health (and everything else!),

    Alex


    P.S. here is the study I reference:


    Malek, S., Reinhold, E. J., & Pearce, G. S. (2021). The Beighton Score as a measure of generalised joint hypermobility. Rheumatology international, 41(10), 1707–1716. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00296-021-04832-4





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