Cracking your Knuckles

[Vex L'Cour]

Do you crack you knuckles?
I do it alot..Feels good tbh. Plus it's good to freak people if they're getting to close.
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[Jake]

No. >

 

[twinkinator]

I don't smash my hands and crack them, I pull my fingers. My thumb won't crack though...ever.

 

[Psychonaut]

i do it all day erryday out of habit

probably from too much gaming and crap

usually once an hour i guess, iirc.

used to pop my knees, neck, and back, but i stopped popping my neck/back, and my knees stopped working. meh.

 

[Chimera]

I used to. But I heard it makes your knuckles grow real big.

 

[Ricano]

Yup, fingers, neck, knees, and toes.

Is it true that it's bad to do so?

 

[Vex L'Cour]

Yup, fingers, neck, knees, and toes.

Is it true that it's bad to do so?

I really dunno...So many theorys..One I read said it's good because it releases fluids which help bones. I dunno

 

[Psychonaut]

i've done it since elementary school

my hands are large in the length sense, my fingers are slender, and the only discomfort i get is from not popping them. and that's more out of habit than out of actual discomfort/pain.

so.. as of the 10 year mark, no big deal.

 

[Callie]

No. It always makes me cringe when people do it D: :x

 

[Ron Ronaldo]

I crack basically everything, and not always on purpose (some stuff just cracks on its own!). O:

 

[Nightray]

Yes! Wish I didn't though. D:

 

[Liv]

Yeah I crack my knuckles but it's become more of a nervous habit throughout the years.

 

[Bacon Boy]

I do. I crack my neck and my knuckles. Sometimes my back. It's basically what the chiropractors do. They re-allign, sure. But they also relax the bones, which is what you do when you crack you knuckles and such. Like Psycho, I've done it since I was in Second Grade, so about nine or so years.

 

[twinkinator]

I can crack my knees, elbows, wrists, fingers, and toes. I'm a very weird mutant.

 

[Nic]

I crack my neck and maybe my toes. Besides that, I don't crack anything else.

 

[Thunder]

I crack basically everything, and not always on purpose (some stuff just cracks on its own!). O:

I'm kinda the same way :L

 

[Slifer Slacker]

cracking your knuckles is bad for the bone growth i heard :/ i crack my knuckles occasionally.. and rarely my toes :./

 

[Bacon Boy]

Repercussions?

The common advice "cracking your knuckles gives you arthritis" is not supported by any evidence. A study concluded that there was no increased preponderance of arthritis of the hand in either group; however, habitual knuckle-crackers were more likely to have hand swelling and 25% lower grip strength. Habitual knuckle-cracking was associated with manual labour, biting of the nails, smoking, and drinking alcohol in the study participants and their families. The study concluded that habitual knuckle-cracking results in functional hand impairment.[5]
Medical doctor Donald Unger regularly cracked the knuckles of his left hand for fifty years while not manipulating those of his right. No arthritis or other ailments formed in either hand, and he was awarded 2009's Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine.

 

[PoxyLemon]

Apparently I heard that cracking your hand can cause arthiritis but then I watched a episode of QI and they said it didn't so I don't know what to believe.



That Wiki thing above is what steven fry said so that

 

[Psychonaut]

Medical doctor Donald Unger regularly cracked the knuckles of his left hand for fifty years while not manipulating those of his right. No arthritis or other ailments formed in either hand, and he was awarded 2009's Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine.

oh god i lold
but major props for being able to go without it for 50 years in one hand
mad skills