srshea -> RE: Cracking joints/fingers yes or no? (Feb. 28 2012 19:23:10)
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But still im interested in the empirical results, of people with "real" experiences. Thing is medicine is not clear in that field i think. And the doc just examined me for 5 min or so. Yeah. That’s why I asked if any of the MDs had given specific and concrete reasons for proscribing it. I’ve encountered a surprising and disappointing number of docs who have an absence of intellectual curiosity and who are unwilling to think beyond their own immediate understanding of certain things (I once went to a GI specialist for a disorder I was having trouble getting diagnosed, and after a few visits and tests and $1,500+ in out of pocket expenses, I asked if he could tell me what was going on. He shrugged his shoulders and said “Ya got me!” And that was it. It was pretty clear that he wasn’t interested pursuing the matter any further, since he had exhausted the possibilities of what he expected the problem might be.) And in general I really don’t like being told what to do or what not to do by a doc unless they can give a clear and convincing reason behind it. It’s hard to shake the sense that there’s a certain chicken and the egg circular logic at play in this issue. If your joints are healthy, you’re probably not going to feel the need to crack your knuckles all that often. If your joints are already messed up and you can find some relief from your symptoms by cracking your knuckles, then that’s what you’re going to do, a little or a lot, as the case may be. But does that cracking exacerbate the problem, or is the problem already getting worse on its own? And does cracking lead to more cracking in a cause and effect way, or is it that underlying and already worsening problem that leads you to crack more and more often? Pretty easy to start chasing your own tail on this issue without definitive clinical proof one way or the other, and like you say, medicine’s not all that clear on this one. About ten years ago I cut the middle joint of my index finger pretty bad. I should have gotten it sutured or whatever, but I was cheap and stoic to I just made a splint out of some chopsticks and let it heal on its own. Which took quite a while. Having that joint totally immobilized for so long led to it being pretty stiff and having a reduced range of motion, and it was like that for several years. I used to have to crack that knuckle all the time to relieve the stiffness, but over time it got gradually better, and now I have, say, 98% mobility as compared to the same finger on the other hand, no stiffness or discomfort worth mentioning, and what I would essentially regard as a full recovery. I think the countless rasgeados I’ve done with that finger have been therapeutic, since it’s really just in the past few years the problem has finally cleared up, but cracking that knuckle was definitely helpful in keeping the joint loosened up over the years. So, that’s my own anecdotal experience on the matter. Take it for what it’s worth…
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