Table 1.

Intra- and inter-examiner reliability for positive hypermobility findings for individual manoeuvres, GJH classification, and agreements with overall score

	Intra-examiner reliability—adults	Inter-examiner reliability
		Adults	Children
Individual manoeuvres
Hyperextension of the fifth finger—Kappa	0.78 [47] 1.00 [47]	0.40 [48] 0.61 [48] 0.70 [47] 0.73 [47] 0.79 [6]	0.43 [49] 0.48 [49] 0.49 [49] 0.69 [49]
Apposition of the thumb to the forearm—Kappa	0.52 [47] 0.71 [47]	0.87 [6] 0.91 [47] 0.94 [48] 1.00 [47] 1.00 [48]	0.82 [50] 0.82 [49] 0.84 [49] 0.89 [49] 0.94 [49]
Hyperextension of the elbows—Kappa	0.61 [47] 0.76 [47]	0.21 [47] 0.34 [48] 0.50 [47] 0.64 [48] 0.92 [6]	0.68 [50] 0.54 [49] 0.60 [49] 0.63 [49] 0.73 [49]
Hyperextension of the knees—Kappa	0.19 [47] 0.84 [47]	0.31 [47] 0.40 [47] 0.85 [48] 0.86 [6] 0.90 [48]	0.30 [49] 0.43 [49] 0.44 [50] 0.62 [49] 0.62 [49]
Forward flexion of the trunk—Kappa	1.00 [47]	0.88 [48] 0.93 [6] 0.94 [47]	0.64 [49] 0.82 [50] 0.84 [49]
Classification of GJH (BS ≥ 4)—Kappa	0.78 [47]	0.54 [47] 0.78 [48]	–
Classification of GJH (BS ≥ 5)—Kappa	0.47 [47]	0.66 [47] 0.66 [48]	0.59 [49] 0.64 [49]
Agreement with overall score—Spearman’s $\gamma$	0.86 [51]	0.87 [51]
Agreement with overall score—Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC)	0.76 [47] 0.84 [52] 0.92 [52]	0.72 [47] 0.89 [52] 0.94 [52]