Since our schooldays, we’ve been told that purposefully cracking your knuckles will lead to arthritis later in life ... and ...

Dr Chris van Tullekan questions that piece of perennial parental advice: don’t crack your knuckles or you’ll get arthritis! One researcher, Dr Donald Unger, actually cracked the knuckles of ...

There are many types of arthritis, but the one that has been blamed on knuckle cracking is osteoarthritis, a degenerative disease in which the tissues in the joint wear away, causing pain ...

The widespread notion that cracking your knuckles causes arthritis or makes your finger joints bigger is a myth. Here's what really happens when you crack your knuckles, and why it's not as bad as ...