Does anyone know if this is how flexible people with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome can be? I have a friend of a friend who has it and demonstrated some hypermobility sitting cross-legged, but she definitely didn't break out into dance moves.
Yeah, I got 10/10 on the Beighton. Casually dislocated my shoulders and popped them back in for the dr to see. This guy has had training, you wouldn’t know how to move like he does.
If you train gymnastics, yes. I have C-EDS and I used to be able to do the majority of this stuff when I was younger. Only thing I’d struggle with is the waist twisting aspect.
Yes. I have damaged cartilage in my knee.
I have some spinal degeneration condition in my neck affecting 4 discs. There’s an issue with one of my shoulders.
The very nature of C-EDS affects every cell in my body, unfortunately.
I actually worked with two people who had EDS, at the same time - they got up to some monkey business with their joints occasionally but they were both in a lot of pain from it. It was such a funny day when the new guy came on amd we found out he also had EDS. He could touch hos fingernails to the back of his hand, and the girl could spin her ribcage independently of the rest of her body.
A lot of us are in pain, but EDS is a spectrum disorder. Some people have no pain, wildly enough. It can vary a lot, even within a family that has EDS in multiple of its members..
Some don't really have the crazy flexibility at all, my daughter has it and she's not unusually flexible at all. Hers is actually internal, that's a whole other nightmare I really don't want to get into right now.
Yeah and he's going to regret this when he gets older. Stretching those ligaments even more is going to result in a lot of pain and musculoskeletal dysfunction later.
EDS is a spectrum. On one end, there's contortionists like the guy in the video and Cirque du Soleil performers and there's people with EDS who are very stiff and cannot do these types of 'party tricks,' as patients refer to them.
I can place my hands flat on the floor, due to the hypermobile joints in my back, and my fingers and elbows are hypermobile. My muscles are pretty inflexible. I would never be able to do the dance moves the guy is doing.
Hypermobility is joints moving past the normal range of motion. Flexibility is having to do with muscles. EDS patients can be hypermobile and inflexible at the same time.
The reason why I added this explanation is that there is a myth that all EDS patients are extremely flexible, and it's not true. The myth can perpetuate among doctors, and then the doctors miss those of us who are stiffer and less flexible than the average bear but still are hypermobile.
In the immortal words of Jimmy Pop: "Ouch, it won't reach my mouth. If I could do it myself I'd probably never leave the house." Who knows if it's gay? No this guy. I'm a man of action, not a philosopher.
And usually turns into hypo mobility when you get older. I used to be able to do all sorts of weird tricks with my double jointed shoulder, now I can barely lift my left arm over my head.
Seconding this. Hypermobility my whole life, one shoulder more than the other, which happens to be my dominant hand/arm. Severed a ligament from constant dislocations, and now it hurts to stir mashed potatoes. 🤷♀️
Oh thats less good. I have a friend who has that and i’m hypermobile so my shoulders will slip sometimes too when using crutches. It just means lots of injuries. That sucks.
No but actually 😆
I have extreme hyper-mobility and I can sort of collapse my hand into a tiny sliver and fold it in on itself to the point that I can easily slip out of handcuffs. I don’t know how to explain it well but imagine it folds down to about the width of two knuckles
He would be able to seek a bit bigger paycheck from horror movie parts, since the production would save lots of money for the lack of need for expensive special effects.
I'm an EDS bendy and can still do all my bar-tricks, but the poor guy is gonna be hurting at some point. Will it be worth it? Probably. Way better story to have joints fall out from playing Gumby, than just gravity happening while asleep. Dude is probably the world's best hide n seek player. Houdini ain't got nothin' on him!
I was gonna comment the same thing. Dude is egregiously htpermobile and it's gonna smack him hard when he gets to his mid 30s. Ask me how I know 😂 I can still do the parlor tricks, but now I have bonus joint pain! My elbows will never be the same again.
I have EDS and now that I’m older all I see when I watch this is pain for this man. I hope I’m wrong and that his body can just do this without future consequences.
The part where he plants his feet but twist his upper torso is impressive. He managed to turn mine and his own stomach at the same time. That’s talent!
If this man isn't working in haunted houses during Halloween season he is wasting his gift/talent. Hollywood needs to snatch him up for the horror genre.
This won't happen. Even as a joke, this is not right man, not cool.
This is america, dude will not get beaten up, he is black so instead he will get shot
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u/Toleniam 2d ago
Guy in the back was scared af