Love Cracking Knuckles? Know Whether It Is Good Or Bad

Love Cracking Knuckles? Know Whether It Is Good Or Bad

Some of our body habits are so weird, yet we love doing them. After every interval we stretch ourselves, no matter where we are or how much busy we may be. That is one of our way to refresh ourselves. We never think about it, we just do it.

In the same way we crack our knuckles. Specially students or people who write or type often, they just love doing it. We also crack our joints even. Unless we hear that pop sound we don’t feel any ease. Every person do it, except some who either hate the sound or don’t want to do it. Even if we are not using our palm or fingers, we automatically tend to crack our knuckles. Some believe it to be human tendency and some say it as habit.

What Happens To Our Joints When We Crack Them

You may have heard your knees popping when suddenly you get up or turn. This sound is similar to your cracking of knuckles.

Our joints require a lubricant to move. SYNOVIAL FLUID is the lubricant-like substance that is found between our joints. Synovial partially derives from ovum, the Latin for egg. It looks similar like an egg yolk.

Now when you stretch any of your joint, you are releasing gas and this gas forms bubbles in between them. These bubbles collapses and pops. The popping sound is the result of the collapsing of those bubbles.

When we constantly crack our knuckles, we do not get those popping sound frequently. To get that sound back or to crack the knuckles again, you will have to wait for about twenty minutes to get that air to return back into the lubricant fluid.

Is It Similar To Any Other Popping Sound Heard In Other Parts Of Our Body

When we stand up suddenly, we get a pop sound too. The sound we hear is the snapping sounds that the tendons make when they slide between muscles or over bones. When a joint moves, the tendons snaps quickly over and makes a popping sound.

Now, Is Knuckle Cracking Safe, Bad or Good?

Many say that frequent cracking of knuckles cause ARTHRITIS. But no medical evidences could prove this fact till now. According to Donald L. Unger, Ig Noble Award, Medicine, this fact is wrong as he did a test on it and proved it wrong. But no evidences have either shown that they are not harmful. Hence, there is still a chance that it is not good for you.

One of the research done in 1990, found that cracking knuckles over a long period of time led to hand swelling and decreased scrip strength. Yet no evidences or further research found on the same too.