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Hypermobility Syndrome: Diagnosis and Management for Physiotherapists, 1e

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I am a very hypermobile person and have been dealing with various aches and pains as a result of not realizing how to manage this condition for many years so please excuse me if this review turns into a bit of a rant. This book is an excellent resource for people who have been diagnosed as being hypermobile and are looking for a more detailed description of the possible complications that may result and what they can do about it. As the title implies, it is written for physiotherapists and so you may need to look a few things up yourself to really understand it. However, I'm of the opinion that too much information is never a drawback to any book.

If you have been diagnosed as being hypermobile and your doctor doesn't seem to think it's all that important then you need to buy this book. Read this book. Then buy a copy for your doctor and make him/her read it. HMS is an all too common condition that often goes unoticed, untreated, and misunderstood by most doctors and even the patients themselves.

This book won't give you a quick and easy cure for your condition. Such a thing doesn't exist right now. However, if you're like me and you're looking for answers as to why your body feels like it's falling apart when you're living a gernerally healthy life, you will find them in this book. It doesn't gloss over details or assume you're too dumb to understand medical terms. It doesn't tell you it's all in your head or maybe you should just relax and not get so upset over aches and pains. I've heard these things from so called "real" doctors and now I'll think twice before believing everything my doctors say.

I have been healthy for most of my life, other than a hip injury while running with my dog, which was diagnosed as bursitis and has never completely healed. After having my son 2 years ago at the age of 34, my body began a process of rapidly "breaking down". I developed severe tendonitis in both wrists, back pain, foot pain ,etc. I was evaluated by many specialists, most of them were overwhelmed with the severity of my individual diagnoses. Not until I was diagnosed as having hypermobility syndrome and under the care of a good rheumatologist and physiotherapist, was I able to start my road to recovery. This book was paramount in my healing process. Learning how posture is very important, as people with HMS tend to rest on their tendons. This book also teaches about the chronic pain syndrome. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to know more about this condition. If you have been diagnosed, you also want to learn as much as possible as this condition is hereditary. May God bless you with knowledge to bring forth healing.

People who are are very flexible, that is hypermobile for the most part are very lucy. They are usually very graceful and good at sports but for a small percentage of them flexibility is not so kind. They have on going joint and muscle pains and uncomfortable fealings of stiffness. As they are more flexible than average their movements appear to be in the normal range, but for them this reduced mobility Faced with a person who to all intent and purposes move well, it is hard for the medical profession to take their complaints as seriously as they should. This condition affects women, start in adolescence as growing pains and continues through out their lives.
This book is the first to describe how to help these patients. Very often physical therapy is too vigorous for them, their symptoms become worse, they complain more and and in an attempt to convey their problem can appear very neurotic. They are not; they are just in pain.
This excelent book will be a comfort to patients who will feel understood probably for the first time and an excelent guide to those who are trying to help these poor people

If you live in anything less than a large metropolitan area you will need backup to educate your medical and therapy team about the "impossible" sypmtoms and pain of Hypermobility Syndrome or Ehlers Danlos Syndrome type III. Refer your family practioner or primary physician, specialists, physical therapists, massage therapist, your family members and your children's teachers [genetic issues]and curious friends to this book. It is the clearest explantion in one place, with an index, of all the myriad issues that folks with our "condition" deal with every minute of every day. Buy your own copy and share it, or buy a separate one for your doctor. Each chapter closes with citations from peer-reviewed medical and therapy journals, an important element to gain respect with folks [including unfortunately physicians and medical specialists] who cannot believe that perfectly fine looking people have major, complicated physical issues. I have referred people to EDS and Hypermobility websites, but this book is more complete and somehow more accessible.

i titled this review as 'my vindication' because i've always had joint pains, strains, subluxations, etc but since i never wanted to come off as a hypochondriac, i never talked about my symptoms until after a sports medicine clinician diagnosed me. i started looking for information but was getting frustrated with the lack of availability online. then i came upon this book. it goes into topics that other resources have only skimmed, and topics that i haven't seen presented anywhere else-- the pains, the issue of instability versus the state of having lax ligaments, the psychological aspects, what hypermobile people tend to do and how this may lead to injuries later on down the line, what things hypermobile people should be aware of, what you should be expecting as a hypermobile kid, teenager, adult and athlete.. the list goes on. this book has also made me realize that a lot of the things i always thought were normal, are actually hypermobile traits-- which is good to know, because now i know how to help prevent more pain and injuries.

for people who only want a glorified list of symptoms hypermobility causes, this is not your book. for people that want more, this is your book. not only for medical professionals, but for anyone interested in hypermobility-- i didn't think the terminology was too technical, and i appreciated that it wasn't oversimplified. it goes beyond just answering what hypermobility will cause. it goes into the why's, the how's, and the mechanics behind it all-- which is exactly what i've been looking for! this book has tons of information that i haven't been able to find online. it also covers different theories of hypermobility and does an excellent job of presenting what we now know of hypermobility, the implications of these facts, and how to approach it. this book is a must-have for any that are interested in this condition.

This book is great! It tells all about hypermobility and the different types. Being in the medical field I am always looking for details and this book has it. I couldn't find most of this information anywhere else. It really helps define the whole spectrum of the syndrome. For indepth information this is the book.

This is one of very few books dealing with Hypermobility Syndrome. But rather than beginning with a cohesive introduction, development, and conclusion of the topic, it is a collection of research papers.

It is geared towards health care professoinals who are frequently encountering people with hypermobility syndrome, rather than towards the affected medical patients themselves. There is an emphasis on describing JHS patients to help doctors recognize them, rather than suggesting treatments and hopeful recoveries.

The vocabulary employed required me to have a dictionary at hand while reading this book. I considered returning the book. But decided against it, in hopes that as I progress along my journey into the topic I will be able to glean more information from a future reading.

I realy liked this book. It gave more insight into Hypermobility than I've seen anywhere else. It was also very nice to see that there are other people out there who understand what I'm going through.

For the last year and a half I have been afflicted with a combination of extreme migraines, pain and fatigue as a result of a fallen arch. This book was instrumental in explaining the relationship between all of the odd little things that I have to deal with that most folks don't. It also motivated me to find an excellent doctor to work with and to become extremely involved in my own recuperation process.

I got some hints out of the book but it is geared more toward the professional. I am giving it to a Physical Therapy Friend.