Knuckle cracking, a common habit, involves the formation of an air bubble in the synovial fluid of finger joints. While the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sixty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Laporte was diagnosed with knee arthritis 15 years ago. For years, she kept the pain under control with steroid injections and physical therapy, but when she began ...

Changes in the gut microbiome before rheumatoid arthritis is developed could provide a window of opportunity for preventative treatments, new research suggests.