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Figure 1.

Calculation of the Beighton Score.

The Beighton score is calculated as follows:

One point if while standing forward bending you can place palms on the ground with legs straight
One point for each elbow that bends backwards
One point for each knee that bends backwards
One point for each thumb that touches the forearm when bent backwards
One point for each little finger that bends backwards beyond 90 degrees

Taken with permission from the Hypermobility Syndromes Association (HMSA) site (http://hypermobility.org/help-advice/hypermobility-syndromes/beighton-score/).

RMMJ Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal Rambam Health Care Campus 2016 October; 7(4): e0034.
Special Issue on Rheumatology Guest Editor: Alexandra Balbir-Gurman, M.D.
ISSN: 2076-9172

Published online 2016 October 31. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10261