Is knuckle cracking bad?
No, there is no evidence that cracking your knuckles leads to arthritis. Popping your own joints can cause injury, but more likely, you will just prolong your own recovery. Usually when a joint “locks up” movement will get it to release on it’s own. When it doesn’t, you can get pain. “Popping” your back on your own can relieve some of the pain temporarily but will often only “pop” the surrounding joints, leaving the “stuck” one “stuck.” A chiropractor isolates the “stuck” joint and corrects the issue. So while popping your own joints is not necessarily bad, you should seek a chiropractor for serious issues.
