Why Are Some People Double-Jointed?
You might have a friend who is “double-jointed" and can bend their fingers in freaky ways. Why are they are so flexible? Hosted by: Stefan Chin ---------- Support ...
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We all have that one friend who’s double jointed -- they can bend their fingers or whatever backward at what looks like an excruciating angle. Makes for a neat, if kinda gross, party trick! But what does “double-jointed” actually mean? And why do some people have this ability but not others? No one literally has double the number of joints, but some people do have joints that are more flexible than the norm. You can increase your flexibility through training and practice, of course, but some people are just born this way, and the technical term for this is hypermobility. One way this can happen is if a person’s joints are a bit shallower than usual. A joint, as you probably already know, is where two bones come together. The most flexible kind of joint in our bodies is th...
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We all have that one friend who’s double jointed -- they can bend their fingers or whatever backward at what looks like an excruciating angle. Makes for a neat, if kinda gross, party trick! But what does “double-jointed” actually mean? And why do some people have this ability but not others? No one literally has double the number of joints, but some people do have joints that are more flexible than the norm. You can increase your flexibility through training and practice, of course, but some people are just born this way, and the technical term for this is hypermobility. One way this can happen is if a person’s joints are a bit shallower than usual. A joint, as you probably already know, is where two bones come together. The most flexible kind of joint in our bodies is th...
