Ahead, doctors explain if cracking your joints is bad for you, and whether or not it's harmful to pop your knuckles every now ...

Cracking Your Knuckles Could Be an Annoying Habit, Study Reveals the Secret of the ‘Popping’ Sound There were only two responses to the cracking of knuckles, which oscillated between getting shrugged ...

The distinctive popping sound produced during knuckle cracking has also fueled concerns regarding potential joint damage. 1 Despite the widespread nature of this belief, scientific research and ...

You might have been chided or even scolded for cracking your knuckles and been told it’ll lead to arthritis. Today, let’s explore the real reason behind our noisy joints and whether there’s ...

The team was confident that the knuckle cracking sound and bright flash on ultrasound were connected to changes in pressure associated with a gas bubble in the joint. It didn't definitively settle ...

Dr Chris van Tullekan questions that piece of perennial parental advice: don’t crack your knuckles or you’ll get arthritis! One researcher, Dr Donald Unger, actually cracked the knuckles of ...

An curved arrow pointing right. What's actually going on inside your joints when you crack your knuckles? Follow BI Video: On Twitter More from Science What's actually going on inside your joints ...

Most of us believe popping joints leads to arthritis, but that's far from the truth. The myth is common, however, it isn't ...

Images of knuckle cracking taken in an MRI scanner and published in 2015 suggested the sound was the result of a quick separation of the joint that occurred while bubbles formed, not collapsed. In ...

You don't give your age, but this sounds like mild arthritis. In the early stages, the cartilage cushions that protect the joint surfaces become worn, and the joint lining can become inflamed ...

Ball joints act like hinges and connect the suspension control arms to the steering knuckles with a rotating, spherical stud and a socket, giving the wheels a wide range of movement -- from side ...