UC Davis radiology professor Dr. Robert Boutin and a colleague studied the sounds and effects of knuckle cracking. Special to The Bee Snap, crackle, pop. If you’re a knuckle cracker, that familiar ...
Odds are, you’ve heard a wives’ tale or two. Some wives’ tales are quickly dismissed (if you swallow a watermelon seed, a watermelon will grow in your stomach). Some are just confusing (Feed a cold, ...
When someone stretches or bends their knuckle to crack it, they increase the space between the bones, which creates a drop in pressure in the joint. As a result of that pressure drop, the dissolved ...
Do you crack your knuckles? For decades, warnings about possible harm have caused concern about the habit — here is what the ...
Scientists used an ultrasound machine to see what’s going on when we crack our knuckles and it was unexpectedly spectacular, but they also provided evidence to suggest that knuckle cracking doesn’t do ...
The human body has always been something of a two-legged calliope—a sound effects machine capable of an almost unlimited range of noises. Some are pretty easy to understand—the whistle, the sneeze, ...
For the past 15 years, Tanya Johnson has been driving her boss nuts. It’s not her job skills – Dr. Robert Szabo says Johnson is an excellent nurse – but rather her incessant knuckle-cracking that ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Snap, crackle, pop. If you're a knuckle cracker, that familiar sound when you consciously pop your joints is like comfort food. You know it might not be so healthy for your hands ...
UC Davis radiology professor Dr. Robert Boutin and a colleague studied the sounds and effects of knuckle cracking. Special to The Bee Snap, crackle, pop. If you’re a knuckle cracker, that familiar ...