A good portion of people enjoying cracking or popping their knuckles. Or, in my case, knuckles, back, neck, ankles, etc. QUESTION: My news producer, Monique, wanted to know if the habit leads to ...

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, ...

The popping sound habitual knuckle crackers make may be annoying — or even alarming — but are they actually harming themselves? The research is somewhat limited but generally concludes that ...

An age-old urban legend that claims cracking one’s knuckles will lead to arthritis may be old in every middle school child’s repertoire, but a look at the scientific literature finds that there is ...

Hearing “snap, crackle, pop!” with no visible sign of the Rice Krispie trio can only mean one thing: snapping joints—likely knuckle cracking, to be more specific. Whether or not the sensation happens ...

Neurologist Dr. Priyanka Sherawat clarifies that knuckle cracking involves the harmless bursting of gas bubbles in joint ...

For the past 15 years, Tanya Johnson has been driving her boss nuts. It’s not her job skills – Dr. Robert Szabo says Johnson is an excellent nurse – but rather her incessant knuckle-cracking that ...