HSD (Symptomatic hypermobility not meeting the hEDS criteria) | hEDS (By the 2017 criteria[1]) |
- Generalized, localized, peripheral, or historical joint hypermobility
| - Generalized joint hypermobility
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- Musculoskeletal structural concerns
| - Musculoskeletal structural concerns
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- Straining/soft tissue-related injury
| - Straining/soft tissue-related injury
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| - Skin pathology
- Tissue weaknesses
- Marfanoid body shape
- Cardiac valve pathologies
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- May be a family history of hypermobility and related injury
| - Family history (first-degree relative with hEDS)
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- If a person with generalized joint hypermobility, and related injuries, also has a first-degree relative with hEDS, then they too would fulfill the hEDS 2017 criteria
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There should be no other primary explanation/diagnosis for signs and symptoms in either group |
Neither group is defined by the presence of other related disorders, though both HSD and hEDS may have complex presentations with associated disorders |