Open AccessBENIGN JOINT HYPERMOBILITY SYNDROME
Author(s) -
Sigrid Covaci,
Oana-Maria Farkas,
Alexis-Virgil Cochino
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
romanian journal of rheumatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2069-6086
pISSN - 1843-0791
DOI - 10.37897/rjr.2017.1.7
Subject(s) - medicine , confusion , joint hypermobility , rheumatology , joint pain , physical therapy , presentation (obstetrics) , pediatrics , arthritis , surgery , psychology , psychoanalysis
Musculoskeletal pain is the most common cause of presentation in rheumatology service. Most frequent causes of joint pain are noninflammatory conditions, with benign joint hypermobility syndrome (BJHS) being one of them. BJHS is not an actual disease but an inherited variation of normal. Some clinical features of this syndrome can lead to confusion with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) and therefore to unjustified treatment, which makes its recognition mandatory. A case of BJHS in a 11-year-old girl is presented; the patient was initially diagnosed as JIA and received immunosuppressive treatment for 2 years.