People with hypermobility may be more prone to long Covid, study suggests

Researchers say that people with long Covid may benefit from the same support as people with hypermobility. Photograph: Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images

People with excessively flexible joints may be at heightened risk of long Covid and persistent fatigue, research suggests.

Hypermobility is where some or all of a person’s joints have an unusually large range of movement due to differences in the structure of their connective tissues that support, protect and give structure to organs, joints and other tissues.