Does cracking ur knuckles cause any health problems?

Answer:
You're just releasing trapped gas between the joints...
usually won't hurt anything.

BUT...one in-depth study regarding the possible detriments of knuckle popping has been published. This study, done by Raymond Brodeur and published in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, examined 300 knuckle crackers for evidence of joint damage. The results revealed no apparent connection between joint cracking and arthritis; however, habitual knuckle poppers did show signs of other types of damage, including soft tissue damage to the joint capsule and a decrease in grip strength. This damage is most likely a result of the rapid, repeated stretching of the ligaments surrounding the joint. A professional baseball pitcher experiences similar, although obviously heightened, effects in the various joints of his pitching arm. But assuming you haven't signed a multimillion dollar contract to constantly pop your knuckles, it hardly seems worth the possible risk to your joints.

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doubt it.

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Nope and it never will. It just annoys people, that's why they make up BS so you get afraid to do it.

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I have heard that it causes arthrisis in your later years.

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It certainly causes me pain.

Whenever I do it my wife punches me and tells me to stop!

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yes it does.
the cracking sound you hear is the blood being squirted out of your knuckle bones. (if u notice that your fingers ache a little after you do it.)
it also causes arthritis

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I wouldn't say that it causes any health problems but it sure as hell give you ugly fingers!

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yeah. it va ngive you arthristis (sorry for the spelling) and when you get older your fingers will come out all deformed. it happened to my great gradma

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I do not think so. if so doctors must have published lots if theories. Actually when you do it you get a freshness in the part where you do it. I always do the act like throwing something by the hand and the cracking sound comes and i feel relieved. This is in both hands, legs and fingers.
I already have arthritis.

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I've read before where people have asked this same question, and responders have said that it caused enlarged knuckles/joints %26 premature arthritis, etc.
Your best best would be to talk to the experts in the medical field, before believing any falsehoods you hear from others.

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As you age your more able to get arthritis. + It makes your fingers swell, and look obscenly stubby.

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