Today I Found Out
Does Cracking Your Knuckles Cause Arthritis? (2016x97)
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→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.
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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