Cracking Knuckles

I have a chiropractor in my regular poker game and he said that if you crack them like most people do, folding the fingers under and pressing the knuckles down, it is fairly harmless because you're really just sliding the joint slightly. But if you pull your fingers and crack them like that, you're displacing the joint and increasing your chances of arthritis.

 

There's nothing wrong with poppin your joints.

I can pop every joint on my entire body.

Toes, ankels, knees, hips, back, shoulders, elbows, wrists, fingers, neck, and jaw.

 

I can crack my chest bone (by stretching my arms out behind myself).

 

I've only done that on accident, but it feels great!

 

Has a doctor come out and said that cracking yoru knucles causing arthritis is an old wives tale?

Because I crack mine all the time, and whenever the weather gets bad, my hands ache really bad. I'm only 19, though.

 

I pop everything every morning. If I don't do it my back and neck and fingers and feet feel stiff and uncomfortable. So now I can't stop. I guess I've become addicted.

 

my jaw pops just about everytime i open it, my knee pops for a few days after a good came of soccer. And my ankel pops.....but only when i walk.

dkt

 

TMJ much, dkt?

My good friend pops her hip, that's pretty disgusting.

I like popping my fingers and toes, but find that usually my fingers don't feel much better after I pop them. So I've kind of eased up on them.

Oh, and I popped my shoulder/elbow region when I played violin constantly. But that was unavoidable. I'd leave it in the violin-holding position, and as soon as I took the violin down from my shoulder, everything would lodge back into position, and it would hurt! (But it was relieving.)

 

I can crack pretty mch everything, and my jaw unhinges when I open my mout real wide. I can even crack my achilles tendon in my right foot...I can't explain how, but it cracks everytime I try.

 

For no other reason than the presence of the word 'Knuckles', I am going to post this picture:

[image=http://www.absoluteanime.com/sonic_x/knuckles.jpg]

 

There is little evidence to suggest that cracking knuckles is bad for you or that it can lead to arthritis.

 

I crack my knuckles daily. I push them down, so it's good to know that's not bad. My knees make cracking noises every time I stand up (rather loudly in which people kringe when they hear it).

 

Nothing is better than cracking your hips and shoulder blade. It's like an orgasm.

 

I crack just about everything that can be cracked.. Knuckles, fingers, elbows, shoulders, neck, knees, ankles and toes.. As far as I've understood it's not bad for you unless you force it in an unnatural direction eg. pulling your ringers to make the pop. Apart from that that it shouldn't be harmfull.. I think..

-Malignent.

 

If I don't do it my back and neck and fingers and feet feel stiff and uncomfortable.

Same here. If I don't crack my joints, I become really stiff.

 

I crack my knuckles all the time, one of my friends hates it. It's fun!


P-F

 

I heard it was bad for you... Then again I "heard".

 

I hate when people crack their necks the most

dmt

 

Cracks knuckles, ankles, elbows, back, neck, and knees.

 

Last year in my Bio class, the girl in front of me would crack her entire back like 5 times during the whole class. Everytime she did it I almost threw up. It's really nausiating.

 

It's not bad for you, FW1. And...*cracks his entire body a few times*

 

I just gave my neck a great crunch to the left. I felt the tingling relief from my skull to my lower back...I love that.