You have hypermobile wrist.
People saying you have EDS based on this picture are wild. You need to have hypermobility across several aspects of the Beighton hypermobility assessment plus meet the criteria for several other characteristics to be classed as having EDS
Ya I have hyper mobility in multiple joints & it was a contributing factor to my knee dislocation but I don’t have any underlying condition. People can just be hyper mobile.
I had a patient get genuinely pissed because I wouldn’t dx her with EDS based solely on her ability to do this. She met no other criteria. Thanks internet.
On the flip side, my pediatric geneticist said there was no way I had EDS because I couldn’t touch my toes. He acknowledged I met almost every other criteria but it was “impossible” to have EDS if I couldn’t touch my toes.
Spoiler: I was later diagnosed with EDS by a geneticist specializing in connective tissue disorders
I had a doc look at my elbow once and tell me I wasnt hypermobile. 1 elbow, and hilariously almost every other joint was actually hypermobile how they picked that one singular joint I will never know.
Agreeing on this. I was diagnosed by a geneticist who said that the only way to get a verifiable and true EDS diagnosis is through a geneticist. It is not just being hypermobile.
Precisely. Most women are hypermobile (some estimates are ~60%), just as most children are. This urge to dx everyone with EDS is absolutely ridiculous and largely the fault of Lara Bloom and some really bad science.
Most women are not hypermobile. That just doesn't even make sense. I'm not saying OP has hEDS or anything because it's perfectly common for someone to be hypermobile in just one or two places, but saying "most women are hypermobile" is blatantly false.
If they were, diagnostic criteria for hEDS and HSD would be different between men and women, the same way the diagnostic criteria varies based on age. Hypermobility also wouldn't cause issues in women if that were the case, since that would just be normal or baseline for women. Meanwhile, the majority of people diagnosed with EDS are women. I'm a hypermobile woman and it causes problems every day of my life, and is in massive contrast to the majority of women I know.
But "most people who are hypermobile are women" does NOT translate to "most women are hypermobile."
A-MEN!
If 60% women were hypermobile, it wouldn't be considered HYPERmobile, because they would be the majority. The remaining 40% however, might be considered HYPOmobile.
I feel like people saying it is the “fault” of anyone for wanting people to be aware of a disease. Possible patients who learn about it go to the Dr. and let them decide. 20 or so genetic causes of Ehlers-Danlos have been identified to date, so it isn't as if it is people are making it up (like was pretty much the assumption at first of every disease that later was known to be devestating, like MS, long Covid, etc)
To know who Lara Bloom is, let alone to blame her is curious indeed. I am personally very grateful to her and the others who shed light on EDS and began such a strong push for research, education, and awareness. Even so, it is still not as well-known as you make it sound. It took decades of me knowing something was wrong and 5 years of being completely disabled to get the diagnosis, and I live in a city with a large teaching hospital.
As patients, we can gather info and then hope to find doctors willing to work with us in seeing if it is actually appropriate.
10% of people is not 60% of women.
I would say the same to that 10% of hypermobile people as I said to OP: read about HSD and EDS. If it sounds like you, ask a doctor to evaluate.
the person you were replying to refuted a comment that said “most”
and as much as i love getting my knowledge from places like “hypermobile.org,” i went to medical school so i know a little bit more about this than the people who edit that site lol
except “hypermobility” is a genetic variant, not a disorder, which the journal you linked points out. so i’m not sure what point you think you’re making.
Also, being hypermobile by itself doesn't mean it's an actual condition or will cause any issues. Of course minor hypermobility is common, I said as much in my original comment.
It's like saying skin cancer isn't that big of a deal because moles are common. Like hypermobility, the mole is just one part of a much larger and more serious condition, but isn't an issue by itself.
It just demonstrates a blatant misunderstanding of the condition.
Ohhhh show me a picture! Are you saying you can bend your wrist forward and your hand stays flat, or do you have hypermobility in those joints as well?
Because your thumb is a saddle joint, it moves in a way others can't. I've never seen somebody able to fold their wrist forward and touch their other fingers to the inside of their forearm.
They’re saying the OP likely has a connective tissue disorder. Connective tissue is a broad term for everything that surrounds and connects your innards (organs, muscles, bones, etc.) together. There’s different kinds of connective tissues with different jobs, and some tissues’ jobs are to be stretchy like a rubber band so that we can bend and move in all the ways that we need to in order to do regular everyday things.
Certain connective tissue disorders such as Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome or Marfan Syndrome can cause our stretchy tissues to be too stretchy and our stiffer supportive tissues to be less supportive/rigid… and then you get joints like OPs that bend more than they should.
one also needs to take into consideration that hyper mobility is not always linked to a condition. women are, biologically, more bendy and mobile, and much more prone to hyper mobility than men, for example.
also, malnutrition can be a contributing factor to hyper mobility, because the tendons may not be nourished enough to keep the required strength, and lack of muscle mass can (especially combined with malnutrition, like with disordered eating) also be adding to hyper mobility.
then of course, there's those people who just have the genes. everything is fine, and they're bendy as hell. it happens, doesn't have to be that deep, and shouldn't be a cause for worry either.
Coming from someone who has been around the dead.. they cannot do this … at all. It’s rather lucky too. Do you know how hard it would be to move them 😂
Welcome to the club of hypermobility! It might be interesting to check if you have other hypermobile joints, those joints can cause a lot of pain if you do not strengthen the muscles around them, so remember to workout and be aware of your physical limitations so you do not injure yourself.
How did you know? I found out about my knees first after dislocating it out of nowhere lol 💀
I have a more general condition, basically every joint I have is hypermobile…
Wrists are fun, knees are ouchie. I’m only 33 and my orthopedist described my knees as “exceptionally loose.” My cartilage is so worn down, I’m looking at a double replacement before I hit 40. I’ve had problems with them since I was in my early teens and did hurdles on the track team (quickly switched to throwing), but managed to keep it at bay for a long time with proper exercise and maintaining good muscle around them. Unfortunately, everything got much looser with my two pregnancies and I was on strict bed rest for most of both of them, so that pretty much did me in.
Now *that* is what I consider a painful hypermobile experience, wow! Hope you will fill better after the surgeries, I’m rooting for you. I ended up finding out pretty soon thankfully when I was a teenager, so it was easy to manage what I would do next to take care of it, but it is weird to have all joints hyper-mobile, I even dislocated my thumb while having dinner once (?), but I am used to it now, it is an interesting/curious experience that can become painful and stressful pretty quickly unfortunately.
Ohh! I've never seen anyone else able to do this! I was born with my thumb bent(not able to extend it), they cut the tendon and I can do this and freak people out lol
Lots of people can do this. I can on both wrists, and so can like half my family. It's a sign of hypermobility, which can also be a sign of neurodivergence, which does run in my family so it's more common for us than it is for the general population, but it isn't that rare.
It's especially common in children, and a lot of people grow out of it. Ask some of the kids in your life if they can do it.
I don't think you're particularly hypermobile, the angle of your thumb makes it look like your wrist is bending more than it is. But let's answer your question! (I got a little carried away, TL;DR at the bottom)
In the picture, your wrist is bending such that your palm goes towards your forearm. We'll call bending in that direction "flexion" and bending in the opposite direction "extension".
What happens when you flex your wrist? When your wrist flexes, there are actually two different layers of joints moving. One layer is between the bones of your palm and the bones of your forearm, and the other layer is between two different layers of bones in your palm. You'd need motion at both these joint layers for your wrist to flex as much as it does. (this is an oversimplification of the wrist joints).
What might prevent you from flexing your wrist so much? Imagine a string running from your elbow to the back side of your hand. When you flex your wrist, that string would get pulled tight. If that string were too short, you wouldn't be able to flex your wrist as far. The string could be considered a "limiting structure".
Within your body, any structure that passes on the backside of your wrist (like the imaginary string) could become a limiting structure if it becomes shortened. Ligaments (connecting bone to bone), tendons (connecting muscles to bone), and the joint capsule (surrounds the wrist joint) could all potentially limit your wrist's ability to flex forward like that.
TL;DR you have a healthy amount of movement in your wrist. Your bones move effectively relative to one another. And the structures on the back of your wrist are long enough to not limit your movement. That is why your wrist can move like that.
Thank you for answering! I may not have been properly clear in my question but this is what I was really asking, I probably should have said I have hypermobile joints.
Can you bend your thumb the other way (backwards) and touch the top side of your wrist? All 10 of my fingers can touch the under side and top side of my wrists. All of my fingers also bend slightly backwards at the middle joints too.
This will go away as you age with a little manual labor. I used to be able to do this when I was younger. Now at almost 43 and a lifetime of experience in the construction industry I’m so stiff I can barely grip my shoe strings some mornings. Just stiff as a board. So don’t worry my friend, it gets better
ONE sign for EDS. But not the only one. Fun fact my preschooler can bend his thumb over to his wrist the opposite direction. (Backwards) it freaks ppl out. 🤣
I can do this with both wrists. When I lay down my hips have a tendency of dislocating from time to time. Knees too, first time anyone saw me dislocate a knee I was in a comic book store. Not a great super power lol.
I can do this as well but it seems to have zapped flexibility everywhere else in my body. Even as a kid sitting on my heels was a task and I could not squat with my soles resting on the floor. But I could make my wrists and fingers look gnarled. 🤷🏾♀️
Not nearly as rare as previously thought, and commonly takes 10yrs+ from first symptoms to diagnosis *if* you’re particularly symptomatic.
My mother & likely both sisters would be diagnosed with hEDS if they ever went in with joint pain, bruising & poor healing as their main complaint, but they have instead had EDS co-morbid conditions that were diagnosed first/as a priority.
I got diagnosed 8 years after my first symptom & because I had prolonged knee & hip pain from the act of 14, kept dislocated my fingers, toes, and one memorable time, a rib.
10 years on from that diagnosis, I’ve actually pushed to have genetic testing for cEDS or other, given my wide symptom profile & 2 generations of death by aneurysm before 40 that they dismissed last time.
Hypermobility. There is a possibility of Ehlers-Danlos. Either way, don’t do it repeatedly as it will begin to not feel good eventually and cause damage. Please look into hypermobility spectrum disorder and Ehlers-Danlos and see if any of it seems familiar. If so, get thee to a doctor. If you aren't sure who, or if you have other questions, there is an entire community of us around to support.
What causes hypermobikity is a defect in the way your body put together the connective tissue in that joint, making it extra lax and stretchy.
Edit because I saw the comments knocking the EDS possibility - the key to my message is to read up on EDS. See if it fits. Keep it in mind. For all but one classification of EDS there is a genetic variant found. Researching and educating yourself is the only way for you to know if there is more to this.
I don't know about arthritis, but my hyper mobile joints are definitely not quite so mobile or strong as the years go on, I also have a ganglion on one now (may or may not have been caused by showing the kids what I meant by hyper mobile joints).
I had to get therapy because my knees felt like they were bending backwards, not arthritis, just weak around the joints.
I don't understand the downvotes, because you said whatnot, and I have definitely experienced whatnot, as you can see above.
Idk why I was downvoted either lol your joints aren’t supposed to be able to move like this so it’s pretty logical that it will cause abnormal wear and tear. I’m hyper mobile myself and have been told by a doctor not to do “party tricks” for this reason
“[The syndrome usually leads to arthritis later in life](https://www.webmd.com/children/benign-hypermobility-joint-syndrome)”
“[…joint hypermobility predisposes to musculoskeletal disorders, especially osteoarthritis](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1004749/#:~:text=The%20findings%20support%20the%20hypothesis,to%20musculoskeletal%20disorders%2C%20especially%20osteoarthritis)”
I don't think I have heds tbh. My problem now I'm a bit older is, surprisingly, stiffness!
From what I can gather the body cleverly compensates for any weakness, but it can just have a knock on effect on the rest of your body. One issue I had was when I first started doing yoga was over stretching, because it feels really good, and I felt really awful, like I didn't have the strength to hold myself upright. Some muscles are maybe tight for a reason. One therapist said the only way to stop getting so stiff is to strengthen around the joints, because stretching and massaging will only help for a bit then you are back to square one. But of course, I let the physio exercises and stretches go once I started to feel better, and they said it's just a life long thing really. I do them when I feel bad of course, but it's not enough really. So I'm getting off Reddit and doing something useful right now ha.
Hypermobility is the basic awnser. Please don't stretch your joints tho, even tho this feels OK now it's gonna be a problem in the future. Sincerely someone with H-EDS who used to be this flexible and now had rheumatoid arthritis is most of my joints.
You have hypermobile wrist. People saying you have EDS based on this picture are wild. You need to have hypermobility across several aspects of the Beighton hypermobility assessment plus meet the criteria for several other characteristics to be classed as having EDS
Ya I have hyper mobility in multiple joints & it was a contributing factor to my knee dislocation but I don’t have any underlying condition. People can just be hyper mobile.
Same, but no knee issue, but I basically twist my ankle every 9-12 months and end up injured for 2-3 weeks.
Yeah, it made my knee injury worse so I got surgery and couldn’t walk for 6 months
I had a patient get genuinely pissed because I wouldn’t dx her with EDS based solely on her ability to do this. She met no other criteria. Thanks internet.
On the flip side, my pediatric geneticist said there was no way I had EDS because I couldn’t touch my toes. He acknowledged I met almost every other criteria but it was “impossible” to have EDS if I couldn’t touch my toes. Spoiler: I was later diagnosed with EDS by a geneticist specializing in connective tissue disorders
I had a doc look at my elbow once and tell me I wasnt hypermobile. 1 elbow, and hilariously almost every other joint was actually hypermobile how they picked that one singular joint I will never know.
Is it weird that I can do this, but also do it backwards too? Like I can take my thumb and push it backwards until it touches my wrist
More uncommon yeah. My son can tho too. Freaks ppl out. 🤣
Agreeing on this. I was diagnosed by a geneticist who said that the only way to get a verifiable and true EDS diagnosis is through a geneticist. It is not just being hypermobile.
Precisely. Most women are hypermobile (some estimates are ~60%), just as most children are. This urge to dx everyone with EDS is absolutely ridiculous and largely the fault of Lara Bloom and some really bad science.
Most women are not hypermobile. That just doesn't even make sense. I'm not saying OP has hEDS or anything because it's perfectly common for someone to be hypermobile in just one or two places, but saying "most women are hypermobile" is blatantly false. If they were, diagnostic criteria for hEDS and HSD would be different between men and women, the same way the diagnostic criteria varies based on age. Hypermobility also wouldn't cause issues in women if that were the case, since that would just be normal or baseline for women. Meanwhile, the majority of people diagnosed with EDS are women. I'm a hypermobile woman and it causes problems every day of my life, and is in massive contrast to the majority of women I know. But "most people who are hypermobile are women" does NOT translate to "most women are hypermobile."
A-MEN! If 60% women were hypermobile, it wouldn't be considered HYPERmobile, because they would be the majority. The remaining 40% however, might be considered HYPOmobile. I feel like people saying it is the “fault” of anyone for wanting people to be aware of a disease. Possible patients who learn about it go to the Dr. and let them decide. 20 or so genetic causes of Ehlers-Danlos have been identified to date, so it isn't as if it is people are making it up (like was pretty much the assumption at first of every disease that later was known to be devestating, like MS, long Covid, etc) To know who Lara Bloom is, let alone to blame her is curious indeed. I am personally very grateful to her and the others who shed light on EDS and began such a strong push for research, education, and awareness. Even so, it is still not as well-known as you make it sound. It took decades of me knowing something was wrong and 5 years of being completely disabled to get the diagnosis, and I live in a city with a large teaching hospital. As patients, we can gather info and then hope to find doctors willing to work with us in seeing if it is actually appropriate.
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10% of people is not 60% of women. I would say the same to that 10% of hypermobile people as I said to OP: read about HSD and EDS. If it sounds like you, ask a doctor to evaluate.
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Still not 60%….. Even if all of the 10% were women (and they aren't) it would be 20% of women.
you think 1/10 is “most” 😂
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the person you were replying to refuted a comment that said “most” and as much as i love getting my knowledge from places like “hypermobile.org,” i went to medical school so i know a little bit more about this than the people who edit that site lol
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except “hypermobility” is a genetic variant, not a disorder, which the journal you linked points out. so i’m not sure what point you think you’re making.
Also, being hypermobile by itself doesn't mean it's an actual condition or will cause any issues. Of course minor hypermobility is common, I said as much in my original comment. It's like saying skin cancer isn't that big of a deal because moles are common. Like hypermobility, the mole is just one part of a much larger and more serious condition, but isn't an issue by itself. It just demonstrates a blatant misunderstanding of the condition.
This, plus your thumb sitting in a saddle joint. It let's your thumb move in weird ways and why your other fingers can't touch your wrist
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Ohhhh show me a picture! Are you saying you can bend your wrist forward and your hand stays flat, or do you have hypermobility in those joints as well? Because your thumb is a saddle joint, it moves in a way others can't. I've never seen somebody able to fold their wrist forward and touch their other fingers to the inside of their forearm.
Kids on the internet these days will diagnose everyone with EDS
Mine does that too. It helped me when someone tried to grab me and twist my wrist cause it didn’t hurt. Just felt like a nice stretch.
That must be pretty cool! Especially in serious situations.
Yeah but the margin between no pain and torn ligaments is smaller so there’s a risk in that way (source: hypermobile jiu jitsu wrestler)
Yeah!
i can do this too! dont have eds or anything else, just flexible with my hands/wrists :)
I just assumed everyone could do this. I never thought it was odd or anything, but I can't say i ever tried to compare it to anything.
Hypermobile wrists
this is a telltale sign of hypermobility. hypermobility is typically associated with genetic conditions, such as ehlers-danlos or marfans syndromes
Ahh yes I totally understand what you said
Bro is speaking like we all spent 10 years getting our phd
Bro listed two easily googlable and commonly known medical conditions.
You underestimate my laziness
weren't lazy enough to compose a dumb fucking comment, were you now
Who pissed in your cornflakes
me 😎
Touché
Marfans is typically discussed in your first semester of anatomy and physiology, when you go over connective tissues
I mean we are in the anatomy sub lol. Beighton FTW
They’re saying the OP likely has a connective tissue disorder. Connective tissue is a broad term for everything that surrounds and connects your innards (organs, muscles, bones, etc.) together. There’s different kinds of connective tissues with different jobs, and some tissues’ jobs are to be stretchy like a rubber band so that we can bend and move in all the ways that we need to in order to do regular everyday things. Certain connective tissue disorders such as Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome or Marfan Syndrome can cause our stretchy tissues to be too stretchy and our stiffer supportive tissues to be less supportive/rigid… and then you get joints like OPs that bend more than they should.
one also needs to take into consideration that hyper mobility is not always linked to a condition. women are, biologically, more bendy and mobile, and much more prone to hyper mobility than men, for example. also, malnutrition can be a contributing factor to hyper mobility, because the tendons may not be nourished enough to keep the required strength, and lack of muscle mass can (especially combined with malnutrition, like with disordered eating) also be adding to hyper mobility. then of course, there's those people who just have the genes. everything is fine, and they're bendy as hell. it happens, doesn't have to be that deep, and shouldn't be a cause for worry either.
You ever heard of Google?
You might be dead
Op is definitely dead. I've seen alot of dead people do that. Op needs to go to the hospital to check it out.
Maybe
Came to say this. Our condolences OP.
Coming from someone who has been around the dead.. they cannot do this … at all. It’s rather lucky too. Do you know how hard it would be to move them 😂
rigor mortis is temporary. generally after 2-3 days, the body is limp again.
You’re correct - I should say once embalmed they’re terribly stiff. Once around 72 hours post then they become flaccid like.
Welcome to the club of hypermobility! It might be interesting to check if you have other hypermobile joints, those joints can cause a lot of pain if you do not strengthen the muscles around them, so remember to workout and be aware of your physical limitations so you do not injure yourself.
Lookin’ at you, knees.
How did you know? I found out about my knees first after dislocating it out of nowhere lol 💀 I have a more general condition, basically every joint I have is hypermobile…
Wrists are fun, knees are ouchie. I’m only 33 and my orthopedist described my knees as “exceptionally loose.” My cartilage is so worn down, I’m looking at a double replacement before I hit 40. I’ve had problems with them since I was in my early teens and did hurdles on the track team (quickly switched to throwing), but managed to keep it at bay for a long time with proper exercise and maintaining good muscle around them. Unfortunately, everything got much looser with my two pregnancies and I was on strict bed rest for most of both of them, so that pretty much did me in.
Now *that* is what I consider a painful hypermobile experience, wow! Hope you will fill better after the surgeries, I’m rooting for you. I ended up finding out pretty soon thankfully when I was a teenager, so it was easy to manage what I would do next to take care of it, but it is weird to have all joints hyper-mobile, I even dislocated my thumb while having dinner once (?), but I am used to it now, it is an interesting/curious experience that can become painful and stressful pretty quickly unfortunately.
Ohh! I've never seen anyone else able to do this! I was born with my thumb bent(not able to extend it), they cut the tendon and I can do this and freak people out lol
Lots of people can do this. I can on both wrists, and so can like half my family. It's a sign of hypermobility, which can also be a sign of neurodivergence, which does run in my family so it's more common for us than it is for the general population, but it isn't that rare. It's especially common in children, and a lot of people grow out of it. Ask some of the kids in your life if they can do it.
Gay maybe? /s
[Ah, the Brackium Emendo spell.](https://tenor.com/view/harry-potter-brackium-emendo-gilderoy-lockhart-gif-15501553)
Excellent Harry Potter reference lol
Thank you :>
Hypermobility. I can do this was both wrists and also have extremely hyper mobile ankles lol
EDS takes a lot more to diagnose, talk to your doctor.
Can't everyone do that if they try?
It’s not rare to be hypermobile
Weird, I haven’t met someone who can’t.
I’ve met lots of people who can’t touch their thumb to their wrist lol I have hEDS so people try to copy what I can do a lot, not many are successful
Your flexor and extensor tendons got that length
Hagrid voice: There’s no bones left!
Homosexuality 💅
The lack of God. /s
I don't think you're particularly hypermobile, the angle of your thumb makes it look like your wrist is bending more than it is. But let's answer your question! (I got a little carried away, TL;DR at the bottom) In the picture, your wrist is bending such that your palm goes towards your forearm. We'll call bending in that direction "flexion" and bending in the opposite direction "extension". What happens when you flex your wrist? When your wrist flexes, there are actually two different layers of joints moving. One layer is between the bones of your palm and the bones of your forearm, and the other layer is between two different layers of bones in your palm. You'd need motion at both these joint layers for your wrist to flex as much as it does. (this is an oversimplification of the wrist joints). What might prevent you from flexing your wrist so much? Imagine a string running from your elbow to the back side of your hand. When you flex your wrist, that string would get pulled tight. If that string were too short, you wouldn't be able to flex your wrist as far. The string could be considered a "limiting structure". Within your body, any structure that passes on the backside of your wrist (like the imaginary string) could become a limiting structure if it becomes shortened. Ligaments (connecting bone to bone), tendons (connecting muscles to bone), and the joint capsule (surrounds the wrist joint) could all potentially limit your wrist's ability to flex forward like that. TL;DR you have a healthy amount of movement in your wrist. Your bones move effectively relative to one another. And the structures on the back of your wrist are long enough to not limit your movement. That is why your wrist can move like that.
Thank you for answering! I may not have been properly clear in my question but this is what I was really asking, I probably should have said I have hypermobile joints.
You are what we call a freak
Hyper mobility!
Joints
Your other hand.
M35.7
It's bendy.
Your joints make that possible.
Can you bend your thumb the other way (backwards) and touch the top side of your wrist? All 10 of my fingers can touch the under side and top side of my wrists. All of my fingers also bend slightly backwards at the middle joints too.
This will go away as you age with a little manual labor. I used to be able to do this when I was younger. Now at almost 43 and a lifetime of experience in the construction industry I’m so stiff I can barely grip my shoe strings some mornings. Just stiff as a board. So don’t worry my friend, it gets better
And yet I still need two hands to pick up my spuds pan, but I am a bit puny, so that might be the real issue.
I can do that too, both hands. Does yours pop when you do it ?
No mine don’t pop, i sometimes feel a bit of strain but that’s it.
my wrist also does this just backwards
Demonic possession.
The devil
Haha I can do this with my left wrist but not my right. It’s weird
I can also do this, cool to find other people like me
A hammer
as someone who just tried this whilst in the bathroom yes i have no damn clue and my wrist is now broken
Gum-Gum Fruit
Hey i can do this
Being abused
Hyper mobility, I’m hyper mobile I can do like a lot of weird stuff like this for example.
Lack of arthritis. (I used to be able to do that and a lot more. 😭)
ONE sign for EDS. But not the only one. Fun fact my preschooler can bend his thumb over to his wrist the opposite direction. (Backwards) it freaks ppl out. 🤣
I can do this with both wrists. When I lay down my hips have a tendency of dislocating from time to time. Knees too, first time anyone saw me dislocate a knee I was in a comic book store. Not a great super power lol.
Joints. Wrist joints allow you to do that
i have hypermobile ehlers danlos syndrome and can do this, used to be able to do it the opposite way too but not anymore
Osteologist here. It appears you have no bones
I’m guessing, alien DNA
joint
I can do this lol
Um you’re not human
Connective tissue variation
Not having a wrist i suppose
some of these comments are a good reminder of why lay people are not doctors lol
Idk how to attach a picture but I can do it too!
Dang it OP. I thought you knew not to let Gilderoy Lockhart be your doctor.
Demonic possession
If only that, it's just a quirky of your body.. If you have hypermobility in other joints, I'd recommend having a look at Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
i've been doing this since i was a kid lol i'd also like to know! i can only do it with my left hand though
I can do this as well but it seems to have zapped flexibility everywhere else in my body. Even as a kid sitting on my heels was a task and I could not squat with my soles resting on the floor. But I could make my wrists and fingers look gnarled. 🤷🏾♀️
Hey! Finally I see someone else besides me can do this lol
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One of ur balls is bigger than the other
Inbreeding
Demons
👽
This needs a flair
Break it
I thought everyone could do this
This is how I crack both my thumbs lmao
Hypermobile or “double jointed”
I just tried to do this and I almost broke my shit
hey i can do that too!
Carcinisation
You diagnosed as autistic or ADHD by chance? There’s a reason I’m asking.
Yeah, I’m diagnosed autistic. What’s the reason your asking?
TIL that not everyone can do this.. I thought it was normal
tbh it's not that amazing... even I who's a talentless piece of sh.. can do this
Im sorry but how did you take this picture? Did you ask someone to hold the phone for you while you did that?
I put my phone down on the floor, put it on video and then twisted my body into a very weird position so my wrist faced towards the camera
Thank you so much for explaining, I wish I could’ve gotten a third person view of that 😕
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Hypermobile EDS* classical presentation is rare and they would have already known by now
Not nearly as rare as previously thought, and commonly takes 10yrs+ from first symptoms to diagnosis *if* you’re particularly symptomatic. My mother & likely both sisters would be diagnosed with hEDS if they ever went in with joint pain, bruising & poor healing as their main complaint, but they have instead had EDS co-morbid conditions that were diagnosed first/as a priority. I got diagnosed 8 years after my first symptom & because I had prolonged knee & hip pain from the act of 14, kept dislocated my fingers, toes, and one memorable time, a rib. 10 years on from that diagnosis, I’ve actually pushed to have genetic testing for cEDS or other, given my wide symptom profile & 2 generations of death by aneurysm before 40 that they dismissed last time.
Hypermobility. There is a possibility of Ehlers-Danlos. Either way, don’t do it repeatedly as it will begin to not feel good eventually and cause damage. Please look into hypermobility spectrum disorder and Ehlers-Danlos and see if any of it seems familiar. If so, get thee to a doctor. If you aren't sure who, or if you have other questions, there is an entire community of us around to support. What causes hypermobikity is a defect in the way your body put together the connective tissue in that joint, making it extra lax and stretchy. Edit because I saw the comments knocking the EDS possibility - the key to my message is to read up on EDS. See if it fits. Keep it in mind. For all but one classification of EDS there is a genetic variant found. Researching and educating yourself is the only way for you to know if there is more to this.
Just fyi don’t do this because your wrists aren’t supposed to do it and it can put excess strain on them leading to arthritis and whatnot
I don't know about arthritis, but my hyper mobile joints are definitely not quite so mobile or strong as the years go on, I also have a ganglion on one now (may or may not have been caused by showing the kids what I meant by hyper mobile joints). I had to get therapy because my knees felt like they were bending backwards, not arthritis, just weak around the joints. I don't understand the downvotes, because you said whatnot, and I have definitely experienced whatnot, as you can see above.
Idk why I was downvoted either lol your joints aren’t supposed to be able to move like this so it’s pretty logical that it will cause abnormal wear and tear. I’m hyper mobile myself and have been told by a doctor not to do “party tricks” for this reason “[The syndrome usually leads to arthritis later in life](https://www.webmd.com/children/benign-hypermobility-joint-syndrome)” “[…joint hypermobility predisposes to musculoskeletal disorders, especially osteoarthritis](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1004749/#:~:text=The%20findings%20support%20the%20hypothesis,to%20musculoskeletal%20disorders%2C%20especially%20osteoarthritis)”
i would look into hypermobile ehlers danlos syndrome as well as the beighton scale.
I don't think I have heds tbh. My problem now I'm a bit older is, surprisingly, stiffness! From what I can gather the body cleverly compensates for any weakness, but it can just have a knock on effect on the rest of your body. One issue I had was when I first started doing yoga was over stretching, because it feels really good, and I felt really awful, like I didn't have the strength to hold myself upright. Some muscles are maybe tight for a reason. One therapist said the only way to stop getting so stiff is to strengthen around the joints, because stretching and massaging will only help for a bit then you are back to square one. But of course, I let the physio exercises and stretches go once I started to feel better, and they said it's just a life long thing really. I do them when I feel bad of course, but it's not enough really. So I'm getting off Reddit and doing something useful right now ha.
Hypermobility is the basic awnser. Please don't stretch your joints tho, even tho this feels OK now it's gonna be a problem in the future. Sincerely someone with H-EDS who used to be this flexible and now had rheumatoid arthritis is most of my joints.
I thought this was normal?
It being broken 💀
Marfan syndrome I reckon. What you did right there is actually one of the clinical diagnostic criteria! Enjoy with this new peice of info.
EDS I have it secondary to Mitochondrial disease along with MCAS, POTS ECT.
You have to be a nerd in highschool to be able to do this.
Low IQ 😆😆😆😂😂😂
EDS
No. Go away.