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View Post: Can the Best Policy for Gender-Bending Athletes Be Found In a ...
24 Nov 2009 by Queerty  
To understand the debate, we must first know the premise: that boys and girls (and men and women) are physically different based on biology, giving men the upper hand in most athletics because they are larger and have more muscle mass. .... Michael Phelps isn't a textbook case of Marfan syndrome, but he's close enough for his doctors to have checked him out and he has annual testing done on his heart. Is this – huge hands and feet, hypermobile joints – an unfair advantage ...
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View Post: Ligament Laxity - Podiatry Arena
22 Jan 2007
Ligamentous laxity is, from a biomechanical perspective, a decrease in tensile stiffness of the ligaments that connect the joints of the foot and rest of the body. As such, for a given elongation of the ligament, the ligament that is "lax" will exert less tensile force on its origin and insertion ... This syndrome is differentiated from other genetic diseases with associated "ligamentous laxity" such as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Marfan syndrome and osteogenesis-imperfecta. ...
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View Post: Autoimmune Diseases
5 Mar 2007
Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) and Marfan syndrome (MFS) are multisystemic disorders that primarily affect the soft connective tissues. (ScienceDirect) Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology Vol 22, Issue 1, March 2008, Pp 165-189. .... Other parts of the body can also be affected, for example lymph nodes, kidneys, bones, joints, etc. (extrapulmonary TB). New York State Department of Health. Scleroderma concurrent with culture proven tuberculosis in a Japanese ...
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View Post: Essential Supplements for a Noob - Size Matters
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11 Sep 2009 by GymDiet   ...
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View Post: How Dangerous is Marfan Syndrome? - Dr. Weil
28 Apr 2008
Marfan syndrome is a genetic disorder of the connective tissue, the body-wide system that provides strength and flexibility to bones, ligaments, muscles, blood vessel walls, and heart valves. It occurs in one out of 5000 ... Many have unusually flexible joints, long and narrow faces, abnormal curvature of the spine (scoliosis), and a sunken or protruding chest. About half of all patients have vision problems; most have some degree of nearsightedness. Marfan's patients may ...
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View Post: Popular Science Blog - The Impossibly Bendy Bull's-eye
12 Feb 2007 by popsci  
... such as Marfan syndrome or Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, that prevents her body from building adequate amounts of collagen—the tough, stringy fibers that strengthen cartilage, tendons and other kinds of connective tissue, such as bone. ... While having less of it may be handy for shooting arrows with your feet, it's undesirable for maintaining bone, muscle and joint health. Symptoms range in severity but typically include hyper-mobile joints, thin, stretchy skin, ...
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View Post: » Dr. Birk named vice chair of Pathology and Cell Biology
9 Dec 2008 by abaier  
Musculoskeletal research pertains to the wide variety of tissues that support the body, including bones, joints, muscles, tendons and ligaments. Dr. Birk will work with Chair Robert Pedowitz, MD, and Gianluca Del Rossi, PhD, ATC, director of Sports Medicine Research, ... “The questions we ask lay the foundation for research that may lead to better treatments for connective tissue disorders such as arthritis, brittle bone disease and Marfan syndrome.” ...
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View Post: e-Patients Discover Unrecognized Side Effects
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25 Jun 2009 by Joe Graedon   ...
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View Post: LARGEST REVIEW OF LOEYS-DIETZ SYNDROME TO DATE
23 Aug 2006
Marfan syndrome can affect many body systems, including the skeleton, eyes, heart and blood vessels, nervous system, skin and lungs. The vascular variant of Ehlers-Danlos also affects skin, muscles and ligaments and causes hypermobility of joints and fragile blood vessels that tear easily. "This study shows that both clinical and molecular analyses can distinguish patients with Loeys-Dietz syndrome from those with either Marfan syndrome or vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome ...
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