Cracking your knuckles gives you arthritis

It's a warning handed down by parents everywhere: keep doing that and your hands will seize up. Will they?

Myth or fact? Reveal

Myth. Doctor Donald Unger cracked the knuckles of his left hand, but never his right, every day for more than fifty years. Neither hand developed arthritis, and he reported the result in a medical journal.

— Donald L. Unger, Does knuckle cracking lead to arthritis of the fingers? — Arthritis & Rheumatism, 1998

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