When someone stretches or bends their knuckle to crack it, they increase the space between the bones, which creates a drop in ...

Is knuckle cracking harmless? According to Dr David Abbasi, occasional pops are fine, but frequent forceful cracking can ...

Your knuckle-cracking habit might be an annoyance to those around you, but popping the joints in your fingers will not harm your health. The widespread notion that cracking your knuckles causes ...

Hearing “snap, crackle, pop!” with no visible sign of the Rice Krispie trio can only mean one thing: snapping joints—likely knuckle cracking, to be more specific. Whether or not the sensation happens ...

Scientists used an ultrasound machine to see what’s going on when we crack our knuckles and it was unexpectedly spectacular, but they also provided evidence to suggest that knuckle cracking doesn’t do ...

The sweet release of cracking knuckles has always baffled scientists. Over the years, scientists trying to explain the cracking sound have pointed to “bubbles” created by rapid pressure changes in the ...

When you pull my finger — what causes the sound? A new study shows for the first time a knuckle cracking on MRI video. The real-time images challenge the long-standing belief that the cracking sound ...

Is it true that cracking your knuckles can lead to arthritis? Knuckle cracking, which stretches the finger joints, is common. People may do it for various reasons — to relieve stress or tension, or ...

Every now and then I crack my knuckles and sometimes my other joints creak and pop too. I'm not even that old, really! Should I be concerned? Are my noisy joints bad? Cracking sounds on your joints ...

I’m an advanced knuckle-cracker. Starting with the fingers, sometime around fifth grade, I’ve risen to expert ankle cracker and supreme cracker of the toes. There’s nothing like a 10-toe crack in the ...

For the past 15 years, Tanya Johnson has been driving her boss nuts. It’s not her job skills – Dr. Robert Szabo says Johnson is an excellent nurse – but rather her incessant knuckle-cracking that ...