This is the Guardian.

I like things like yoga because I can go to a class despite not having been for you know months

and I'm a lot more bendy than the people in there who obviously go every week.

Guardian Science Correspondent Linda Gedis is hypermobile.

As a child I was quite into things like gymnastics and dance. I wasn't necessarily

very good at them because I'm also not entirely well coordinated. I like

those kind of party games as well like the serial box game where you or limbo where

you you know you have to bend down and and pick things off the floor with your teeth.

And while it means she could perform tricks in the playground and now at parties,

there is another side to being bendy.

I quite often stub my toe on the bed, which I know where the bed is.

I walk past the bed every day, yet I will stub my toe on it because my sense of where things are in relation to my body is a bit off.

In fact, hyper-mobility syndrome, where your joints cause you pain,

has been associated with a range of other health issues, including fatigue and bowel

problems and even anxiety.

And now a new study has found hypermobile people are more likely to suffer with long COVID.

Hypermobile people appear to be 30% more likely to experience lingering COVID symptoms and especially fatigue. So why does being especially

why does being especially flexible have a cost?

From the Guardian I Madeline Finley and this is Science Weekly.

Linda, as a hypermobile person yourself, perhaps you can explain to me exactly what that is.

Hypermobility is basically having excessive flexibility in your joints. It's where two bones meet but

they're kind of surrounded by connective tissue and generally that connective tissue seems to

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