I keep telling my son to stop doing it. It is just a wives tale?
2006-08-12 18:51:43 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
why would your son want bigger knuckels? told him that he should have a bigger brain.
2006-08-12 18:59:02 · answer #1 · answered by James Bond 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have to disagree with aquarianstar.
Cracking your knuckles does not give you arthritis, it is a genetic disease so if you get it and you crack your knuckles it has nothing to do with cracking your knuckles.
All cracking knuckles is is displacing the air out of the joint.
My knuckles are bigger than normal and I used to crack all the time, for any reason at all. Now it's only a nervous, awkward habit. But I don't have the energy to prove anything I've just said up, just personal experience.
However, it does gross people out. Maybe your son could stop out of consideration for others.
2006-08-12 18:58:16 · answer #2 · answered by Kerru 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't give you arthritis or make your knuckles bigger. It's just gross.
If you want him to stop just tell him that though and maybe he'll be afraid to do it anymore. That's how the tale got started and then some dumb suckers actually believed it.
2006-08-12 18:57:08 · answer #3 · answered by Ann 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not an old wives tale at all. It causes arthritis and fluid buildup in the joints and becomes extremely painful and debilitating. Good to stop that habit now while he is still growing.
2006-08-12 19:01:18 · answer #4 · answered by $1200 mistake 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is! a wives tale, but when he starts to do the M word it won't make it bigger! Sorry but I couldn't help it! Good Luck!
2006-08-12 18:56:46 · answer #5 · answered by basscatcher 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. when one pops their knuckles is releasing a build up of pressure inbetween the joints.
think about it....we when moving hear pops and crackles, joints were supposed to do that.
it's an old wise tale.
2006-08-12 18:56:55 · answer #6 · answered by giggling.willow 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
absolutely not - old wives tale.. - noise is simply sound of water in between cartilidge
2006-08-12 18:55:00 · answer #7 · answered by border 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope just gives u arthiritis. all the cracking sound is just air pockets between the bones.
2006-08-12 18:57:52 · answer #8 · answered by DUDE 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, all it does is give you arthrites,,it has never been proven to make your knuckles big.
2006-08-12 18:54:16 · answer #9 · answered by aquarianstar 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
that's just a myth. they will not get bigger nor will it cause arthritis
2006-08-12 18:56:46 · answer #10 · answered by crazytrain_23_78 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋