In 7th grade there was this dude who would ... wait for it... crack his back during class.
Everyone would hear it.
The people behind him would see someone turn 180 degrees. Twice. Then he'd go back to listening like nothing happened.
Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
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Re: Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
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Is it a theory, I thought it was exactly what causes it. The stretching depressurizes the liquidy thing in the joints and that causes dissolved gases to bubble out of solution in nucleation points. It's not really gas build up, but more like opening a can of coke, the pressure drop causes the equilibrium to shift and brings dissolved gases out of solution. At least that's what I thought it was.
But how does this gas or new gas get back into the liquid resulting in new pressure?
Generic life processes? Everything is dissolved you know, including the oxygen and carbon dioxide from respiration. Nitrogen too, though it's not really very useful. The fact that it's all dissolved is how divers get the bends. As the pressure lowers gases drop out of solution and form bubbles, clogging arteries.
Re: Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not talking about athletes. I'm talking about the people who own the teams, they invest in chiropractors. People who are thinking about the ultimate economic benefit of an investment into a human body, not the athletes themselves.
People who realize that if their athlete believes it'll make them better, and it doesn't actually hurt them most of the time, there's value in indulging them.
I suppose you can find conspiracies and scams everywhere if you want to not look very hard