Are your joints extra bendy?
Five movements, nine points. It is called the Beighton score, and it is the same set of movements a doctor would try with you — so if you have wondered about this, or somebody has mentioned it to you, this gets you to the appointment with the answers already written down.
Nothing is saved until you reach the end — if you close this tab you will lose it, and we would rather tell you that than keep a half-finished record of your body.
Why a lipoedema site is asking about your joints
Lipoedema and bendy joints turn up together often enough that a lot of clinics now ask about both. How often is genuinely unsettled — one Swiss clinic found it in about 4 in 100 of the women it saw, while some specialist centres put it far higher — and part of the reason for the gap is that these movements are harder to see and harder to do in a body that carries a lot of tissue on the limbs.
It is worth knowing about because it changes advice. If your joints move further than most people's, some exercise is better for you than others, some of it needs doing more slowly, and it can be part of why things ache in places nobody has connected up yet.
Go gently and stop if anything hurts. Nothing here is worth an injury, and a movement you had to stop is a useful thing to tell your doctor, not a gap. Do not push a joint past where it goes on its own, do not bounce, and skip anything you have been advised to leave alone.