Loose Joints (no, not the kind you smoke, either!) ;-)

As many of you know, I have been dealing with chronic pain in various parts of my body for a number of years now. My doctor seems puzzled by it and seems to have given up looking for a cause. He has told me to just come in and report any new symptoms as they occur so he can write it in my record and perhaps at some point something will add up.

Well, I am thinking perhaps I have stumbled upon a possible cause for a lot of my pain. Last week I was at physical therapy and Saker was having me give resistance as he gently put pressure on each of my fingers. They were collapsing, one after the other as I could not maintain resistance to his pressure. Then he began twisting my hands, wrists and elbows in different directions to see how far they would go. After a few minutes of this, and his receptionist looking on and remarking how amazing it was that he could twist my arm like that, he said, "You have loose joints."

I have been researching "loose joints" on the web. I've been learning that loose joints can cause one to have repeated ankle injuries, which I have. It can cause rib pain, which I have. It can cause shoulder pain which I get if I do too much physical activity like gardening, scrubbing, or vacuuming, and it can cause neck pain, which I get quite often.

Could loose joints be the root cause of many of my pain issues? It is certainly a possibility. It is something I plan to ask my physical therapist about.