Knuckle Cracking

[lamborghini98]

Does anyone know if cracking your knuckles messes up your hand in the long run? Sometimes I do it to loosen up my fingers when I'm playing, and Ive heard rumors that it gives your athritis later on.

 

[DigMe]

No legitimate studies that I've seen support the theory that knuckle cracking leads to long-term injury. We've discussed it before.

brad cook

 

[mikemulcahy]

No legitimate studies that I've seen support the theory that knuckle cracking leads to long-term injury. We've discussed it before.

brad cook

What he said.


Mike

 

[Davidoc]

Old wive's tale, commonly spread by older folk.

 

[DigMe]

Old wive's tale, commonly spread by older folk.

Wives perhaps?

brad cook

 

[fraublugher]

so , you'll find out when you're older...

 

[cheezewiz]

I've been doing it for at least 35 years, and my knuckles are still healthy.

 

[Pause]

I pop my right thumb... because it gets a bit stiff ever since I broke it. Not really the conventional "pop", but more of a side-to-side bit 'til I hear it "pop"

 

[tplyons]

I've been told it actually has positive effects.

 

[Josh Ryan]

I heard it makes you go blind.

 

[Bently]

I heard somewhere that popping them releases gas build-up between the joints or something like that. Anyway, the message they had was that it helped them.

I have something wronge with my hands where they pop every time I close them tightly. I mean the kind of pop you can hear all the way across the room with other noises going on. I asked a doctor about it once and he said I was a little double-jointed in all the joints in both my hands and wrists. I'm not quite sure how you can be "a little" double jointed, I thought it was all or none. But then he is a doctor.

 

[Oxblood]

I've been told it actually has positive effects.

I heard the same thing too. My girlfriends doctor told her that it releases the chemical that makes you happy, can't think of the name right now.

 

[Davidoc]

I heard the same thing too. My girlfriends doctor told her that it releases the chemical that makes you happy, can't think of the name right now.

THC?

 

[Tash]

All you might wish to know about knuckle popping.

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Note: there has apparently been a study that concluded that found habitual knuckle popers are more likely to have certain kinds of soft tissue damage (probably do to repeated movement). However there is no link between it and arthritis.

 

[FireBug]

THC?

I laughed at this.

 

[Woodchuck]

I heard it makes you go blind.

Seriously, I'd like to know what the popping noise is. What makes the sound?

 

[Hollow Man]

I pop my knuckles and my neck all the time. Sometimes it's out of habit/boredom, but a lot of the time, it relieves pressure and feels good, which I guess does make me happy in a roundabout sort of way.

 

[Figjam]

I heard the same thing too. My girlfriends doctor told her that it releases the chemical that makes you happy, can't think of the name right now.

seratonin?

 

[Toasted]

Seriously, I'd like to know what the popping noise is. What makes the sound?

It's air moving from one side of the joint to the other. Or so my a-level biology teacher said,

 

[Dan1099]

IIRC, it's a little bubble of gas in the knuckle imploding.