Does Cracking Your Knuckles Cause Arthritis? The Research Is Clearer Than The Myth
Crack. One sharp pop from a pulled finger, and someone nearby is bound to issue the old warning: keep doing that and you’ll end up with arthritis. A sound that loud seems like it must be doing damage.
Doctors who studied the habit in 1990 wrote that the arthritis link had long been considered “an old wives’…
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