Healthy Facts » cracking joints http://www.healthyfacts.net Healthy Eating for Healthy Living Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:34:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Is Cracking Your Fingers Bad? http://www.healthyfacts.net/is-cracking-your-fingers-bad/ http://www.healthyfacts.net/is-cracking-your-fingers-bad/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:11:55 +0000 admin http://www.healthyfacts.net/?p=48 You may have grown up under the impression that cracking your fingers could cause harm. Personally, I can remember my mother telling me that it would cause arthritis. But in fact, cracking your knuckles will cause you no harm.

When you crack your fingers, it releases negative pressure that builds up in your joints. Synovial fluid covers cartilage in joints to protect them, and when your hear that popping sound from cracking- it is actually the breaking of the seal of the synovial fluid. It takes about 20 minutes for the seal to restablish itself and cracking can begin again.

There is no harm with cracking your fingers so don’t let anyone tell you to otherwise.

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