Is knuckle cracking harmless? According to Dr David Abbasi, occasional pops are fine, but frequent forceful cracking can ...

If you’ve ever popped or cracked your joints — by accident or on purpose — you’re not alone. There’s even a medical name for that crackling, clicking or popping sound your bones make: crepitus.

Nearly all of us have experienced our joints ‘pop’ at some point in our lives. Whether it was from cracking our knuckles, getting adjusted by a chiropractor, or the inadvertent sound that sometimes ...

A good portion of people enjoying cracking or popping their knuckles. Or sometimes their knuckles, back, neck, and ankles. KENS 5's sister station WFMY wanted to know if the habit leads to arthritis.

A machine designed to 'crack' the metacarpophalangeal joints of human subjects, used in the 1970s study. Michael Huckabee is professor and director of the physician assistant program at UNMC. He's ...

There are many reasons people crack or pop their knuckles. Some do it as a nervous tic, others do it because of restlessness, still others do it to relieve pressure and stiffness and then some, ...

Your body has millions of parts working together every second of every day. In this series, Dr. Jen Caudle, a board-certified family medicine physician and an associate professor at Rowan University ...

Despite what you may have heard, no. Shockingly, knuckle popping has somewhat of the opposite affect. Taking your joints through their full range of motion, which is what you do when you pop them, is ...