What will happen if you crack your knuckles too much?

Answer 1

Cracking your knuckles is just releasing the nitrogen in between your joints. Cracking your knuckles can cause you to crack them more often. Your knuckles may become larger from cracking them.

Answer 2

The urban legend is that cracking your knuckles causes Arthritis. This not true.

What happens is that when you hyper-extend a joint the synovial fluid (joint lubricant) decompresses and releases its dissolved gasses. The cracking sound comes from the gases rapidly being released from the fluid.

Medical problems can develop from knuckle cracking. These include hand swelling and loss of grip strength. These are related to soft tissue damage not bone damage.

Answer 3

It is suggested that you will get arthritis/bad joints but this may or may not be true.

Having had a joint (elbow, knee) that will not move right, and had to "crack" it to get full mobility back, I think to a degree "cracking" a join is "normal" as long as it is not every second. Cracking my right Elbow is like once a month. I wake up, it's "stuck" I move it, it goes "crack" It now moves.

No, it will not be crooked

You've probably heard this a million times (from doctors, scientists, etc., but they are only saying what I'm about to say because it's true):

Knuckles are the joints that connect your fingers to your hand. They are surrounded and lubricated by a liquid called synovial fluid. Cracking your knuckles causes the bones in the joint to pull apart, which forms a gas bubble (from the synovial fluid) in the joint. This bubble pops, causing the "cracking" sound.

Arthritis is not caused by this motion. Arthritis is a disorder in which a person's immune system attacks his or her joints. Also, arthritis is not just a condition of the joints, it can also attack the lungs and skin, and any connective tissue in the body.

The cause of arthritis is still unknown, as is the case with many autoimmune disorders (such as cancer). An autoimmune disorder is a disease in which the body attacks itself.

You can crack your knuckles all you want, and your highest risk would only be to have your knuckles get sore from doing it constantly (just as if your knuckles were to get sore from punching a punching bag constantly).

Folk wisdom can nice-sounding and comforting/reassuring and all, but in this case (this case), to believe this old myth after hearing the facts is just downright ingnorance (no offense to anyone, but now there's no excuse to believe this myth).

Answer 4

Cracking your knuckles does not make your knuckles bigger as a common myth says. It simply relieves the air pockets that can accumulate in the knuckles and "pops" the air bubble. The frequent cracking could possibly lead to arthritis in later age, so it is best to not crack your knuckles.

infact im a well trained nurse and just so you know cracking you knuckles is definitely not harmful!!!!!!! xx

Answer 5

If you are healthy they should heal stronger than before. That is my best answer.

Answer 6

If you crack your knuckles too much, you may get pain called arthritis.