Double jointed/ hyper-mobility

[J-diz]

Hi all,
So I have double jointed fingers, not elbows or knees or anywhere else. This gives me no grievance or pain when I am training apart from when I am holding the pads. Because I am holding my hands out flat and receiving all the power it’s pushing my fingers back from the second knuckle up. This can really start to hurt after a few rounds and they say to avoid sports that disrupt the joints - which isn’t an option.

Does anyone have any info or tips how I can help this? As I will need to hold pads at times.

Thanks in advance.

[bs888]

You could try wearing extra protection on hands. Taping them at the joint or some football goalkeeper gloves have small spines along back of fingers to prevent fingers being bent back. Apart from that try strengthening the tendons in the hands and arms which may make them less flexible. Grip machines etc. Hope this helps, been troubled by hypermobility since I was a nipper.

[J-diz]

Thanks mate, it’s literally just one joint up from my knuckle on my fingers. They start to bend backward when I straighten my hands out full stretch. Maybe using different pads could help