People who crack their knuckles will sometimes be wrongly warned ... But it isn’t an inevitable part of ageing – your joints are not like car tyres destined to wear down and be replaced.

If you're a fan of knuckle-cracking, you're probably a little fed up of hearing this, dismissing it as an 'old wife's tale.' So what, if any, are the risks attached to cracking your joints?

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 ...

Many of us have heard that cracking your knuckles is bad for you, and can even increase your chances of developing arthritis ...

Scientists have turned their attention to investigating that most annoying of human habits - the sound made when you crack your knuckles. The characteristic pop can be explained by three ...

Knuckle cracking, a common habit, involves the formation of an air bubble in the synovial fluid of finger joints. While the exact cause of the cracking sound remains unclear, studies have not ...