Does cracking your wrists and knuckles and stuff cause or prevent arthritis? Ten Points!?!
Question: Does cracking your wrists and knuckles and stuff cause or prevent arthritis.? Ten Points!.?
I've heard it prevents it, but someone else said it caused it.. I want the truth!!!Health Question & Answer
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well, when you crack you knuckles your popping air bubbles that break away the cartilage around the joints.. But it wont cause any serious problems until your old and everything else is already hurting..Health Question & Answer
Cracking your joints, definitely can cause arthritis.. Cracking your knuckles causes the joints to start swelling and over a period of time the joint swelling will start aching and the swelling will not go away, it just gets worse and in some instances, the joints will lock in place and you can not move......it is tremendous pain..Health Question & Answer
Alright I am in med school and I wrote a paper on this.. So listen......cracking your knuckles in no way at all hurts you or causes anything! The "cracking" you are hearing is the joint fluid popping and moving around when you bend that joint.. It is perfectly normal and healthy and safe!Health Question & Answer
You won't get arthritis:
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someone once told me that cracking the finger's joins will lead to them getting larger over time and make it difficult for rings to go over them, but i don't know how true that is......Health Question & Answer
It does nether.. It is harmless to crack your knuckles, neck or any other joint as long as you don't hyperextend anything but if ya do that you'll know.. =)Health Question & Answer
When you crack your knuckles and your neck and all that, your cracking your cartilage.. So, it CAN cause arthritis..Health Question & Answer
No, absolutely not.. This was an issue on yahoo news a few weeks ago.. Since I'm a big time knuckle cracker I read every word :)Health Question & Answer
it can cause arthritis and make it worse, so wherever you heard it can prevent it ........ignore that..Health Question & Answer
Yes it will eventually when you are olderHealth Question & Answer
people always say this but i read in the health book that it is not true so keep crackin those knuckles! good luck =)Health Question & Answer
i dont think there's any medical evidence to prove thatHealth Question & Answer