The first clinical description of articular hypermobility is attributed to Hippocrates, who, in the fourth century B.C., described the Scythians, a race of people inhabiting the region that now forms the Ukraine and Czechoslovakia, as having humidity, flabbiness and atony such that they were unable to use their weapons. Their main problem in warfare was that hyperlaxity of the elbow and shoulder joints prevented them from drawing their bows effectively.
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Beighton, P., Grahame, R., & Bird, H. (1999). Introduction to Hypermobility. In Hypermobility of Joints (pp. 1–7). Springer London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3633-0_1
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