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Does Cracking Your Knuckles Cause Arthritis?

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user→’s population cracks their knuckles, men more so than women. Does this mean up to 54% of us will get arthritis? The short answer is no. There are different types of arthritis and no study has ever shown a link between cracking your knuckles and it causing any type of arthritis. Let’s talk about why and what is actually causing the “cracking” noise when you crack you’re knuckles. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/03/cracking-your-knuckles-does-not-cause-arthritis/ Sources: http://osteoarthritis.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=osteoarthritis&cdn=health&tm=81328&f=20&su=p284.13.342.ip_&tt=12&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi%3Fartid%3D1004074 http://www.hopkinsarthritis.org/arthritis-news/knuckle-cracking-q-a-from/ http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120917-is-it-bad-to-crack-your-knuckles http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/joint.html http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002223/ http://www.cdc.gov/arthritis/basics/types.htm http://cal.vet.upenn.edu/projects/saortho/chapter_86/86mast.htm

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  • Originally Aired May 17, 2016
  • Runtime 3 minutes
  • Production Code jK-h2x7hZBM
  • Created September 17, 2020 by
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  • Modified September 17, 2020 by
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