To investigate the relation of habitual knuckle cracking to hand function 300 consecutive patients aged 45 years or above and without evidence of neuromuscular, inflammatory, or malignant disease were evaluated for the presence of habitual knuckle cracking and hand arthritis/dysfunction. The age and sex distribution of the patients (74 habitual knuckle crackers, 226 non-knuckle crackers) was similar. 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 lower grip strength. It is concluded that habitual knuckle cracking results in functional hand impairment.

J Castellanos and D Axelrod
Department of Internal Medicine, Mount Carmel Mercy Hospital, Detroit, Michigan 48235.

So as we can see, it may not necessarily cause arthritis (although no one is 100% certain), it does however cause other problems.

Ps. Its really horrible to have to listen to it 24hours a day!

It was ironic that I had to click approve on that last comment to make it display.

Thanks Grace for that info! grrrrrr!!! lol {crack}

ha ha you two are a right couple! I dont care if it does cause arthritis, but if its annoying I wouldnt want my partner doing so.

lol

Hahahaha! Man, you’re not even safe on your blog. You should block her IP. :p

Being a lifetime long knuckle cracker I have to say it probably does damage based on my own opinion, however, it is very satisfying when you get a deep and rolling ‘CRACK’ along every knuckle. You know what I mean, Weiry, I know you do.

I love cracking my knuckles and do it all day long. If it annoys someone, they’re welcome to leave the room.

Hmmmm, I dont think telling Grace to leave the room would go down too well! lol

My old man did a shoot for the NHS years ago about the effects of cracking your knuckles and the effect it has on arthritis.

Basically, without going into detail, cracking your knuckles *does* cause arthritis. Yeah it sucks ~ I do it all the time…

Looking at the rushes from the shoot (Non-Edited footage), you can see all these poor sods who han’t move their fingers and have real messed up looking hands ~ really makes you think..

I crack my neck too - I hope it doesn’t end up looking like this…

http://www.csmc.edu/images/351455_Arthritis-1.jpg

More recently I’ve been making a real effort to stop ~ I need my fingers waaaay too much to risk messing them up so bad.

What about all the other bones, especially the spine?

I visit an osteopath at least once (usually twice) a month, for back treatment. Used to go to a chiropractor, but they just seemed to be after money, and get through as many patients as possible.

Anyway, my neck is usually “cracked” 2-4 times per visit, back about 3-4 times, from different angles.

I hope this is completely different from knuckle cracking!

May be it knuckling does help with arthritis but I never tried it.

I still remember the cracki did on my knuckles as a kid and since then have had weird feeligs in my pinkie knuckles ever since. Just thinking about it made me have ot crack them then, i feel sick….

I AM ADDICTED TO CRACKING EVERY BONE IN MY BODY, TOES, NECK, SHOULDERS, FINGERS, ARMS, ANKLES, WRISTS, BACK U NAME IT I CAN CRACK IT I AM COMPLETLEY OBSESSED WITH CRACKING MY BACK AND I LOVE IT WHEN I HEAR OTHER PEOPLES BACKS CRACKING, LOVE CRACKING BACKS. YAH I KNOW U DONT NEED TO SAY IT HA HA HA TRUE BUT!

lol - I don’t think you should tell too many people that Jelly!

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