Bones provide structural support to the body and work with muscles and joints to enable movement. Over time, cartilage can ...

but others argued that pressure changes produce the sound, Barakat tells The Guardian. Images of knuckle cracking taken in an MRI scanner and published in 2015 suggested the sound was the result of a ...

Cracking knuckles doesn’t increase arthritis risk ... This gas release produces the characteristic popping sound.” According to Dr. Ashish Phadnis, Director of Orthopedics and Joint ...