Hypermobility: An important but often neglected area within rheumatology

Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 522-524

  Grahame, Rodner ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUTOINFLAMMATORY DISEASE; BENIGN JOINT HYPERMOBILITY SYNDROME; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EHLERS DANLOS SYNDROME; ETHNICITY; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; JOINT HYPERMOBILITY; JOINT LAXITY; MARFAN SYNDROME; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PERCEPTION; PHENOTYPE; PHOBIA; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNITED KINGDOM;

HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; RHEUMATOLOGY; SYNDROME;

EID: 53849133764     PISSN: 17458382     EISSN: 17458390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncprheum0907     Document Type: Article

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