does cracking knuckes have long term side affects?
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When you crack your knuckles you are not dislocating the joints at all!! You are simply stretching the connective tissue that holds the joints together thus causing the gas bubbles in the synovial fluid ,which surrounds this, to pop!
Cracking your knuckles will not cause arthritis. I'm afraid that is an old wives tale, no doubt originated by somebody who cant stand the sound.
However, those who crack their knuckles a lot may cause soft tissue damage to the joint capsule which could then cause a decrease in grip strength.
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eventually your fingers will snap off
yes, my aunt does and she said you can get artheritis from it.
Actually, I'm told it can bring on arthritis, as you're actually dislocating the joints.
it may cause arthritis in the long run. ask your doctor
I don't know about it giving you a disease or not, but I used to crack my knuckles too. And one thing it did do was make my knuckles look wide. You should really try to stop, it's horrible having wide knuckles. Luckily I stopped in time so they don't look too wide.
It is linked tog etting arthritis at an earlier age than you usually expect. So stop, not just becuase you may not be able to work your fingers properly but becuase the sound is awful!
No, while annoying, it has no long term effects. When you "crack" a joint, you are displacing gas that has built up over time.
I did it for years and now i can't crack any of them now!
STOP IT RIGHT NOW!
It is better to let the joints crack in the natural way, and they are gases released from in between the joints that is the popping sound we hear
The question is usually, "Will cracking my knuckles cause arthritis?" and there are probably two myths given as the answer. One is "yes", and the other is "no."
Oddly enough, medical science has not devoted great attention to this vital question.
One thing we can safely conclude, though, is that Knuckle Cracking (KC) does not cause arthritis. Even in a relatively large study, the KC group was not found to be more prone to arthritis. So technically, the "no" answer is correct. However, since most people probably do not draw a sharp distinction between developing osteoarthritis of the metacaarpophalangeal joints and chronic inflammatory damage to the ligamentous capsule of the metacarpophalangeal joint (both hurt) a "no" answer here doesn't really addresses the question.
the mechanism responsible for the noise - cavitation - is the same principle that causes damage to plane and ship propellers. However, a calculation of the energy released by a single crack puts it at 1/10 the level necessary to cause damage.
Then the question becomes whether chronic low-level assault can cause damage in the long term. There's no evidence either way for this, and it's as easy to come up with rationales on both sides.
During the KC process, the ligaments around the joint are rapidly stretched. Could this lead to chronic damage? It seems to me that it certainly could. A similar effect strikes, for example, pitchers; the trauma involved in pitching a single game may not cause any particular damage, but as we all (where "we all" equals North American baseball fans) know pitchers' joints and ligaments are more prone to damage over the long term than are the average persons'. The stress involved in cracking a knuckle may be less than that involved in throwing a baseball 97 miles per hour, but on the other hand (Ha!) the ligaments involved are less robust, and while a pitcher may deliver some 100-odd insults to the ligaments every five days, I imagine a confirmed knuckle cracker is well above that.
So what can we conclude? There's weak evidence for some damage to the joints; there's a reasonable, but speculative, model for the mechanism. There is hard evidence that the effect is not inevitable; not all members of the KC groups showed damage.One could conclude, personally, that it's quite likely that cracking your knuckles could lead to some unpleasantness down the road; and since there's little reason to continue an annoying and asocial habit, some suggest quitting. But since your loved ones have probably already suggested this many a time, it's unlikely you'll take this word for it.
Summary: Cracking your knuckles does not cause arthritis, but it may damage your hand in other ways.
you will wish you had,int, when its raining your knuckles will ache for hours
I do the same thing, I started about 15 years ago though. My fingers seem to work okay but they do ache in the mornings, I can't put it down to anything else :)
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