loose joints
Unstable fitting parts
Loose joints describes a condition where joints have unusual flexibility or range of motion, allowing limbs to bend or extend beyond typical limits.
Someone with loose joints might hyperextend their elbows or knees, or easily touch their thumb to their forearm.
The condition ranges from harmless hypermobility to symptoms of connective tissue disorders.
Informally, loose joints suggests a relaxed, easy manner of movement: He walked with the loose joints of someone completely at ease.
- wobblyTending to teeter
- hypermobileAbnormally flexible joints
- flexibleAble to bend freely
- range of motionJoint's movement capacity
- dislocatedShifted from normal position
bendy · bendy straw · unstable · party trick · lax · floppy · creaky · ligaments · tendons · contortionist · circus performer · stretchy · clickety · popping · cracking · wear and tear · slack · rickety
- hypermobility disordershypermobility, bendy
- Marfan syndromeaortic aneurysm, long fingers, long limbs, scoliosis, striae
- labor signscontractions, water breaking, mucus plug, dilation, effacement