• Question: does clicking your fingers result in arthritis ? xxx

    Asked by 07bowermanmol to David, Helen, Ian, rhysphillips, Sarah on 20 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Rhys Phillips

      Rhys Phillips answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      Good question. I asked my biology teacher this when I was in school and we did some research. At the time we couldn’t find any real evidence to support this. In fact some people claimed that clicking your fingers can have the opposite effect, although again there wasn’t any real evidence to support this either!

    • Photo: Helen Fletcher

      Helen Fletcher answered on 19 Jun 2011:

      Rhys is right!!

    • Photo: Sarah Cook

      Sarah Cook answered on 19 Jun 2011:

      I have learned from a random web search that it creates an gas bubble in between your joints, stretching the tendons a little. Over time this leads to early arthritis. But there is no scientific evidence to suggest this is true.

    • Photo: Ian van der Linde

      Ian van der Linde answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      Probably not, but people shouldn’t do it anyway because it’s quite annoying!

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