Safety and Impacts of Physical Activity for Individuals Living With Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders and Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: Protocol for a Scoping Review
This proposed scoping review will aid in defining critical research directions regarding PA in HSD/hEDS, which may help inform guidelines outlining the risks and benefits of structured and unstructured PA. This review will also help define existing evidence for age-specific and hormone-related considerations regarding the impacts of PA in this population. This is particularly important as PA may help ameliorate the physical and mental symptoms associated with HSD/hEDS and may improve quality of life for these individuals across the lifespan.
Authors
- Ranita Harpreet Kaur Manocha (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5297-6553)
- Jonathan Low (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1964-6237)
- Julia T. Daun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0343-6654)
- Donald W. Golden
- Liz Dennett
- Susan Nicole Culos-Reed
- C Allyson Jones
Institutions
- University of Alberta (CA)
- University of Calgary (CA)
- Foothills Medical Centre (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JMIR Research Protocols
- Published
- 2026-02-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2196/80394
- Primary Topic
- Connective tissue disorders research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00