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Pediatric rheumatologists encounter children with a wide variety of musculoskeletal pains, including those with acute and chronic pain that appears disproportional or amplified, with a degree of pain subsequently suffered. In some cases, there is no clear trigger. Chronic musculoskeletal…
Key Points ■ Joint hypermobility as a clinical entity is difficult to define given current parameters; the Beighton score is not fit for this purpose, and a new measurement tool is required to identify patients with significant global joint laxity.…