Somatometric characteristic of hypermobile patients with coxarthrosis.

Different body build has been observed in hypermobile women with coxarthrosis as compared with other hypermobile individuals. The study summarizes results of somatometric measurements in 38 hypermobile women with coxarthrosis based on congenital dislocation of the hip (CDH) and the same number of hypermobile controls. The following differences were found: Patients with coxarthrosis were heavier, shorter, more robust and had a larger quantity of fat tissue. In the control group ten out of 38 (26%) showed arachnodactyly, whereas in the coxarthrosis group no arachnodactyly was found. In Heath-Carter anthropometric somatotype the samples differed in all three somatotype components (endomorphy, mosomorphy, ectomorphy), the greatest difference being in ectomorphy. The results obtained are recommended for use in the primary preventive care of coxarthrosis.