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UK hypermobility sufferers wait up to 21 years for diagnosis, study suggests
People in the UK with hypermobility conditions are waiting up to 21 years for a diagnosis while experiencing symptoms like chronic pain and partially dislocated joints. A study by the University of Edinburgh, the largest of its kind in the UK, found low awareness of hypermobility spectrum disorders and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome among British healthcare professionals.
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