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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on July 9, 2009
Rheumatology 2009 48(12):1613-1614; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kep175
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Injury and joint hypermobility syndrome in ballet dancers—a 5-year follow-up

Janet Briggs1, Moira McCormack2, Alan J. Hakim3 and Rodney Grahame4

1Royal Ballet School, 2Royal Ballet Company, 3Department of Rheumatology, Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust and 4Department of Rheumatology, University College Hospitals London NHS Trust, London, UK

Correspondence to: Alan J. Hakim, Department of Rheumatology, Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust, London E11INR, UK. E-mail: alanhakim@aol.com

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SIR, We have previously reported on the prevalence of joint hypermobility and the joint hypermobility syndrome (JHS) in the Royal Ballet School and Company [1]. In this study, we observed, particularly among the female dancers, that skin hyperextensibility and joint dislocation were the principal clinical features that defined the presence of JHS, having removed joint pain and soft tissue injury from the analysis, given their relatively high prevalence throughout the study cohort. Generalized hypermobility was ubiquitous among the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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