Hey Topaz, stop cracking your knuckles.
You’re welcome. 
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Originally posted by Topaz
Help Me Stop Cracking My Knuckles
Hey Topaz, stop cracking your knuckles.
You’re welcome.
Absolutely HI-Larious :rolleyes: 
Cracking knuckles and other joints are one of life’s simple pleasures. For a period I too was able to crack my jaw. There was a thread about jaw popping in GQ and I decided that jaw popping did feel good, and I hadn’t experienced any pain, but decided not to risk it. My jaw won’t pop anymore.
After popping my knuckles my fingers feel more … limber, I guess. Has anyone managed to quit cracking their knuckles? Once you stop will the knuckles not crack as easily? I know that if I don’t pop my knuckles as soon as they “need” it then the pop will be louder the longer I wait. Is this true for anyone else?
Re. cracking the “little guy,” Cecil says it’s, um, bad (guys, read at your own risk):
Is it true men can suffer penile fracture?
By the way, I think that’s one of Cecil’s funniest columns, the topic being ripe for smart-assed comments.
Sorry for the hijack.
Sorry, that’s bull. Funny the myths that crop up, though: my dad (in a pissy mood) told me a few weeks ago that every time I crack a joint, I was increasing my risk for a stroke. He’s wrong, as he always is when he attempts to pass off a single paragraph he read quickly out of the corner of his eye as medical fact. (He also comes from a family of hypochondriacs.) It may be true, though, that cracking the neck wrong can pinch things and lead to stroke.
Well…
I don’t think cracking your jaw is good for you, as it means your jaw is slipping out of alignment and being dislocated. This happens to a friend of mine (unintentionally, she never cracks her jaw) and is quite painful for her. A doctor advised her not to yawn. :smack:
Since we’re having a contest, I crack my toes, ankles, fingers, back, and neck, and my elbows, knees and wrists occasionally.
How on Earth - not that I really want to know - would you crack your wang? There aren’t any joints or bones or anything…
I crack my back, it hurts if I don’t at least once a week or so. I crack my right thumb, index and middle fingers once every few hours or so because it feels good, and makes a nice loud pop. As for its causing arthritis, I highly doubt it. Arthritis is an autoimmune disease, and would probably happen even if you never popped a joint in your life. I suppose I can act as a test case, since in theory I would only get it in the knuckles of my right hand, I never crack the ones in my left.