Cracking your knuckles might feel satisfying, but it often earns disapproving looks or even dire warnings. For decades, people have believed that this seemingly harmless habit could lead to arthritis ...

Next time when your kid asks you to ‘pull his finger,’ also tell him the secret behind the distinctive popping sounds that are heard while cracking knuckles. Settling a decades-long debate about what ...

Since our schooldays, we’ve been told that purposefully cracking your knuckles will lead to arthritis later in life and that we shouldn’t be doing it often or, at best, at-all. However, while it is ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. You might’ve been told by parents, teachers, colleagues, friends of friends to stop cracking your ...

Whether you love it or hate it, cracking knuckles is a common habit we've likely all done at some point. It's one of life's simple pleasures for some people, who crave the satisfying "pop" and ...

If your joints make a popping noise, you're probably wondering what it is - and whether it's dangerous. But, did you know there's an actual medical term for it? Believe it or not, cracking joints is ...

A bit of relief, or maybe just a force of habit: We’re separating fact from fiction about what happens when you crack your knuckles and other joints. * It all has to do with the “synovial fluid” in ...

London – The mystery of what happens to make a knuckle crack has been solved thanks to a simple test of “pull my finger”. In a new study published by the University of Alberta, a team of researchers ...

I don’t remember how old I was when I first heard someone say, “Don’t crack your knuckles! It’ll give you arthritis!” But I do know that ever since then, I’ve felt a weird pang of guilt any time I do ...

Maybe you've cracked your knuckles before or you do it all the time. Perhaps you know someone else who does it habitually. Have you ever wondered what exactly is happening to make that sound? While it ...