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Too Flexible to Fix? Orthopedic Surgery and Hypermobility with Dr. Jocelyn Wittstein (Ep 196)
What if being too flexible is exactly what makes surgery fail? And what if your doctor thinks your shoulder is fine because you can lift your arm to 90 degrees, not realizing that for you, 90 degrees might as well be a frozen joint?
Your joints bend farther than most. But when something goes wrong, that same flexibility may be working against you and your surgeon may not know it yet.
In this episode, Dr. Linda Bluestein sits down with Dr. Jocelyn Wittstein, orthopedic surgeon at Duke University, to pull back the curtain on one of medicine's most misunderstood intersections: hypermobility…
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