The Loose Truth: Unraveling Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos in the OR

August 4, 2025 1 min read Premium comments

Demonstration of joint hypermobility in the wrist and fingers, a common manifestation in patients with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) / Source: Wikimedia Commons and SamuelEDS94

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If you’ve ever seen a patient casually pop their thumb out of joint like it’s a party trick—and then ask you to “just fix it”—you may have met hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS). And if you operated on them…you probably haven’t forgotten it.

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