Joint laxity leading to osteoarthrosis.
Joint laxity was compared in 50 females with symptomatic osteoarthrosis and an age-matched control group without osteoarthrosis. Generalized joint laxity measured by the scoring system of Cater and Wilkinson (1964) modified by Beighton (1973) was significantly higher in the osteoarthritic group (X2 = 10.00, P less than 0.05). In osteoarthritics the pattern of clinical joint involvement varied with the degree of generalized joint laxity.
D006801:Humans; D007592:Joint Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D010003:Osteoarthritis / Q000209:etiology*