So-called Cirque du Soleil disease afflicts the extremely flexible

Some call it the Cirque du Soleil disease.
That’s because the Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes (EDS) tend to affect people who are exceptionally flexible: gymnasts, dancers, contortionists. The disorders weaken the body’s connective tissue, which means that most people with Ehlers-Danlos have highly elastic joints and stretchy skin.
An experts panel described the unusual epidemiology of the rare disease in the March 2017 issue of the American Journal of Medical Genetics: “For many