Beighton score (generalized joint hypermobility examination)
Beighton Score
tests per year, worldwide, required for the clinical diagnosis of hypermobile EDS (Criterion 1)
“Beighton Score • Prepubertal children and adolescents > 6 • Men and women, post-puberty up to age 50 > 5 • Men and women older than 50 > 4”
- Kind of source
- Clinical guideline
- Read on
- 2026-11-06
- Daily check
- Quote found at the source on 2026-11-06
- What to know
- A clinical examination score recorded in a clinic letter, used once at diagnosis. Cutoffs depend on age.
Used in
Kept as evidence; no figure on the platform is computed from it yet.