Hyper-extensibility

Introduction

Contracting

• Review a few things about medical history
• Review a few things about family history
• Physical exam
• Make any testing recommendations
• Answer any questions

Review medical history

Review family history

Physical exam

Psychosocial Issues

• Issue of nothing being wrong…may have to deal with the possibility of something else being wrong than the original thought (glaucoma/nearsightedness/Stickler's)
• Mom not recognizing the hyper-extensibility of herself/children/family.

Other possible counseling issues

• Dominant inheritance (Stickler's syndrome, inheritance)
• Recessive inheritance
• Multifactorial inheritance

Notes

The information in this outline was last updated in 2000.