Eldeen, Rufida Said Thabet Kamal and El-Ahmed, Fath El-Rahman and Hussein, Mohammad Diab (2020) Assessment of the Benign Joint Hypermobile Syndrome among Sudanese's Children in Al-Khartoum State from November 2011-May 2012. In: Current Topics in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 4. B P International, pp. 71-77. ISBN 978-93-90206-82-7
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Background: Joint hyper mobility (JH) defines as ligamentous laxity, it is due to a primary genetic
disorder of connective tissue matrix proteins, Moreover, it is highly associations with the risk of soft
tissue injury, chronic widespread pain, and early degenerative disease.
The aim at the study to assess the frequency of hyper mobility syndromes in Sudanese 'children, and
the knowledge of mother toward to the disease, morbidity and importance of treatment else.
Methodology: This is, Hospital- based descriptive cross sectional study conducted at 4 hospital at
Khartoum state in Sudan at(November-2011/may-2012), randomly selection 100 children their age
between 3-13Y seen in the outpatient clinic or admitted to hospital namely above, receive the
questioner about general information about on child and mother's, also clinical measurement by
Brighton criteria and Beighton score.
Results: Children had benignhyper mobile syndrome (BJHS) according to Beighton score 63%, while
56% of children according to Brighton criteria moreover, 45% of mother notice the BJHS while 9% of
mother consider about the symptoms.
Conclusion: Hyper mobility syndromes are common in Sudanese children while the poor knowledge
about this condition might lead to delay in diagnosis and application of treatment.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Subjects: | STM Library > Medical Science |
Depositing User: | Managing Editor |
Date Deposited: | 06 Nov 2023 09:27 |
Last Modified: | 06 Nov 2023 09:53 |
URI: | http://open.journal4submit.com/id/eprint/3165 |