A) cause arthritis


B) make them larger.

is this a myth . big arguement. thought i should ask all the experts here

10/19/2007 11:25:06 PM

i've heard from 2 people with arthritis that it does

10/19/2007 11:25:56 PM

i have read that it is a myth. i read this on wikipedia, accuracy is up for debate.

10/19/2007 11:26:20 PM

I donno, but I pop my back every day as soon as I wake up. I dont want to make my backbones larger or get arthritus in it.

10/19/2007 11:28:47 PM

A is true, dont know about B, but dont worry, only when you are 50ish will it start to bother you and by that time your relatives would have put your azz in a rest home.

10/19/2007 11:35:14 PM

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"A is true, dont know about B, but dont worry, only when you are 50ish will it start to bother you and by that time your relatives would have put your azz in a rest home the earth will have exploded."

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"A is true"

are you basing this on anything other than what you've been told?

[Edited on October 20, 2007 at 12:02 AM. Reason : kindof like grandaddy longlegs are not actually the most deadly spiders in the world.]

10/20/2007 12:00:15 AM

I think that they're both true. When it is cold, my hands HURT and I have large knuckles for a girl. I have been popping them for a long time. When I ordered my class ring, its like 7 3/4 for my right ring finger.

10/20/2007 12:02:15 AM

From http://www.rps.psu.edu/probing/knuckles.html

So your mother's childhood warnings were just old wives' tales. But what makes that disconcerting sound? Naidu explains that the cracking noise is caused by a gas, mainly carbon dioxide, that is usually dissolved in the synovial fluid that encapsulates most joints.

10/20/2007 12:04:28 AM

i heard it increases risk of arthritis.


i've also heard that snapping fingers multiple times in a row isn't good for you either.

10/20/2007 12:08:55 AM

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"However, the common parental advice "cracking your knuckles gives you arthritis" is not supported by any evidence, but habitual knuckle crackers are more likely to have hand swelling and lower grip strength.[5] 5. ^ Castellanos J., Axelrod D. (1990). "Effect of habitual knuckle cracking on hand function". Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases: 49(5):308–9."

sounds like a pretty official article they've sited there. good enough for me.

10/20/2007 12:09:01 AM

I've heard that popping your toes is even worse

10/20/2007 12:09:22 AM

i've also heard that jerking off gives you hairy palms.

10/20/2007 12:17:26 AM

I heard that brushing your hair 100 strokes a day makes your hair grow faster.

10/20/2007 12:19:44 AM

what other kinda funky stuff have you heard?

10/20/2007 12:22:44 AM

I heard jerking it made you blind.

Guess those hairy palms might not be so bad if you can't see them.

10/20/2007 12:22:53 AM

I heard that dnl had sex with StillFuschia.

I thought that was pretty funky.

[Edited on October 20, 2007 at 12:26 AM. Reason : ]

10/20/2007 12:25:41 AM

lol did u really hear that?

10/20/2007 12:27:14 AM

I've heard that the "brown nose titty blister" is when you're reverse titty fucking a girl and your ass keeps rubbing against her nose.

10/20/2007 12:27:52 AM

I heard that there is a note on a recorder that will make you shit yourself. Its called the brown noise.

^^ You caught me... no.

10/20/2007 12:33:37 AM

oh i thought u really had heard some wolfweb rumor or something

10/20/2007 12:34:17 AM

Nah, just read everyone giving you two shit about it before. Since she hates men and all.

10/20/2007 12:37:23 AM

no


punching things over and over (or practicing iron knuckle training) will make them bigger

arthritis is bs

10/20/2007 2:30:14 AM

working at the hospital in greenville last summer doctors told me that the popping was just the release of CO2 and thats why its like a stress reliever......but who knows...

10/20/2007 2:45:12 AM

^thats funny casue it sounds like bones are popping.

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"are you basing this on anything other than what you've been told?"

lol we were just drinking and some bitch was popping her knuckles. it was annoyingso i waslike bitch you are gonna get arthritis. she was like no your dumb. already knowing that. then she said if anything they will get bigger. i said howwould rubbing bone/cartalige together make your knuckles bigger. then i was like im going to post this

10/20/2007 10:45:34 AM

I asked an orthopaedic surgeon that question and he said, it doesn't hurt anything, but it doesn't help anything either.

10/20/2007 12:57:42 PM

so bones rubbing together does nothing but noise

10/20/2007 1:01:25 PM

that is what he told me... I don't think it is bones rubbing together that causes the pop. I thought it was sort of fluid in knuckles that causing the noise.

10/20/2007 1:48:58 PM

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"Naidu explains that the cracking noise is caused by a gas, mainly carbon dioxide, that is usually dissolved in the synovial fluid that encapsulates most joints."

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"Naidu explains that the cracking noise is caused by a gas, mainly carbon dioxide, that is usually dissolved in the synovial fluid that encapsulates most joints."

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"Naidu explains that the cracking noise is caused by a gas, mainly carbon dioxide, that is usually dissolved in the synovial fluid that encapsulates most joints."

10/20/2007 1:53:59 PM

from the mouth of a veteran orthopedic surgeon: it is just a release of gas, arthritis is a myth

10/20/2007 1:59:24 PM

im not an orthodonist so i dont know anythig about it

10/20/2007 2:00:21 PM

You see, I have bilateral clubbed feet and I was always able to pop my ankles repeatively so during one visit I asked my surgeon about it.... I wonder what a chiro. does when people go to see them and they pop joints all the time....

10/20/2007 2:04:35 PM

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"I asked an orthopaedic surgeon that question and he said, it doesn't hurt anything, but it doesn't help anything either."

sure it does

it helps my fingers, back, neck, and other joints not feel so stiff

therefore it helps

[Edited on October 20, 2007 at 2:13 PM. Reason : bb]

10/20/2007 2:12:54 PM