If you’ve ever popped or cracked your joints — by accident or on purpose — you’re not alone. There’s even a medical name for that crackling, clicking or popping sound your bones make: crepitus.

Knuckle cracking is a common habit, but many people still believe it weakens the joints. A top arthroscopy and sports ...

If you love making your knuckles and other joints pop, you might’ve heard that doing so is “bad for you” and that “you’ll get arthritis.” Short answer: we’re not sure. Long answer: this video from Vox ...

Good morning. I'm Noel King with the answer to a mystery that has puzzled scientists and kids for years. When we crack our knuckles, why do they make that popping sound? A grad student in France, ...

Nearly all of us have experienced our joints ‘pop’ at some point in our lives. Whether it was from cracking our knuckles, getting adjusted by a chiropractor, or the inadvertent sound that sometimes ...

The sweet release of cracking knuckles has always baffled scientists. Over the years, scientists trying to explain the cracking sound have pointed to “bubbles” created by rapid pressure changes in the ...

Knuckle cracking is very common. Many people do it everyday instinctively, but never figure out why or what causes the popping sound. There have been debates about what the sound of knuckle cracking ...

Scientists have studied the popping sound of cracking knuckles, revealing it’s caused by tiny bubbles collapsing in joint ...

I have no idea why popping knuckles makes this noise, but it was established it does no harm back in 1998, an achievement for which Donald Unger won the Ig Nobel medicine prize in 2009. Every day for ...

Since 1939, there have been a couple of theories on what actually makes the distinct popping sound that comes with knuckle-cracking, from tightening fibrous capsules to vibrations in the tissue. A new ...

Your body has millions of parts working together every second of every day. In this series, Dr. Jen Caudle, a board-certified family medicine physician and an associate professor at Rowan University ...

A graduate student in France is the latest to investigate why cracking knuckles make that noise. His answer involved a series of math equations. Good morning. I'm Noel King with the answer to a ...