If I pop my fingers, will they get big, fat and knobly?
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Despite what everyone is saying, it is a myth that popping your knuckles causes arthritis. A study published in The Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Treatments by Brodeur showed no link between popping fingers and arthritis in 300 finger poppers. The pop occurs not because you are damaging your joint but because the joint space contains air bubbles and when you bend back your fingers, this causes the joint space to narrow and the air escapes, causing the pop. Your fingers will also not get big and nobby.
no, but you will eventually get arthritis in your joints.
it certainly doesn't help - and you will for sure annoy your neighbors.
my great grandpa popped his knuckles and they got big and red and he eventually got arthritis.
In a way it is an old wives tale. But if you keep popping them, then it will wear away the cartilage in your knuckles and cause arthritis. The arthritis is what will make them fat and knobby looking as well as very painful. Try not to pop them on a regular basis. In a way, your mom is right about it. Trust me, I am suffering from the arthritis already, and I am only 26!!
Actually it will make them larger. It also causes arthritis and joint degeneration.
No, but you could get arthritis.
Please...No, your fingers will neither get fat, big knobbly and you wont get arthritis. The 'popping' isn't caused by an abrasion of bone/cartilage..It is the suction effect caused by the synovial fluid in the joints that make the noise.
Synovial fluid, being a viscous solution migrates around the joint...Pulling the joint sucks the fluid back in,,,hence, any ache you had, disappears...
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