Can you touch your thumb to your inner arm?

[FreyaGl]

Like this? I've just realised I can do this 😂 no one else in the house can. Haha.

Yes

Yep

No

Yes and it's one of the movements when testing for hypermobility
www.ehlers-danlos.com/assessing-joint-hypermobility/

Nowhere near.

Nowhere near. DS can and it’s been suggested that this (and his ability to fall over thin air) might mean he’s mildly hypermobile.

[quote rattlemehearties]Yes and it's one of the movements when testing for hypermobility
www.ehlers-danlos.com/assessing-joint-hypermobility/[/quote]
I was just reading that too. Very interesting!

Ouch!!
No!!
😀😀

Yes. Apparently I have lax joints

Yep, always have - a physio (treating me for acute but recurrent sacroiliitis) once told me my joints were hyper mobile, but I didn't understand what he meant or why it was causing me problems?

New challenge. Can anyone else do this with their fingers?

I can also bend my finger joints separately and lock them in position, if that makes sense. I also have terrible balance and hand-eye coordination - so bad that I can't drive a car.

There's never been any suggestion to me that they could be linked, but perhaps something to look into.

I used to be able to but everything is stiff now I’m older.

@Somuchgoo

New challenge. Can anyone else do this with their fingers?

Haha, yes, I used to freak my friends out by doing this when I was younger!

Yes. All the females in my family can. I think it's part of the hypermobilty spectrum/ehler danloss but only dd been officially diagnosed with hypermobilty.

I used to be able to do that Somuch but my finger joints are stiff now I'm older!

I do get a lot of hand and wrist pain, I thought it was menopause.

@FreyaGl

Woo hoo!

I've never met anyone else who could do it. Its probably a symptom of hypermobility (which would explain some other health things) but its a cool party trick to freak people out.

Yup me and DD can both do both of those and also bend our finger tips backward. Interestingly she was recently investigated for ribcage pain and the doc suggested she is hypermobile - long fingers and toes are also indicative. She can also bring her hands together in the prayer position behind her back.

Yes but I have fat arms.

I can bend my end finger joints without bending the middle ones. Always useful when having a laugh with a year 9 class! Otherwise not.
Balance and coordination is fine. I've got very weird thumb joints, I'm told

I can do all the things mentioned here, including the prayer position behind my back thingy.

What does it mean?!

[quote Somuchgoo]@FreyaGl

Woo hoo!

I've never met anyone else who could do it. Its probably a symptom of hypermobility (which would explain some other health things) but its a cool party trick to freak people out.[/quote]
Yay! Me neither. I just asked DH to try it and he was nowhere near 😆

Yes, but they're the only joints in my body they hyperextend

Yes

Being hyper mobile is fairly common, having a connective tissue disorder like EDS is a lot less common

I can do the finger thing and the thumb thing but I don't have a connective tissue disorder, one of my daughters has a diagnosed one though and being bendy is the least of her problems