It's not the releasing of the gas that causes damage, it's the fact that you're stretching your tendons/cartiledge in your fingers. In order to release the pressure, the tissues there have to be stretched considerably, at first, then less as they're weakened.
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Cracking my knuckles
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It isn't good on your knuckles! My Dad and my sisters boyfriend have issues because of it.
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ok then I think I am gonna try really hard to stop.
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I like to crack my knuckles before i jam out on bass, but its wrecks after a while :-/, but yeh im tryin to cut down, guitarist sez "i used to do it alot until my hands got artheritic so i stopped" but i guess its different person to person, but its if ur willin to take the risk to sacrifice like hand quality lol. Alls i know is that i cant like make a good fist no more and im bloody 16 :'(
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i do it all the time, siince 2 years agosometimes my bones ache and when i crack them they sort of feel mcuh more flexible and freei click a ide range of bones in my bodysuch as;neck, back, wrists, fingers, knuckles, ankles, toesif it does damage in the long run - im fucked
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I have been cracking them since i was ten (5 years ago) and now i barely have to push for them to crack and it grosses people out. But i think i am going to have to stop cause they are starting to hurt though
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ive been cracking my knuckles for as long as i can remember..well not that long, but i seriously cant remember when i started. i crack them everyday, and they never lock up, or get sore, and they havnt gotten bigger, i think that when those things happen to your hands, its gonna happen anyway, and people just link it to knuckle cracking...cuz its kinda annoying to listen to, and its kidna addictive, but im not a doctor, so i dont know...but...you probobly shouldnt worry.
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It is true that cracking your knuckles damages cartilage. The amount of time it takes for the damge to take toll depends on how often you crack your knuckles and your body's resilience.
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Well I have now that I have been cracking my knuckles for four years and when it is cold my fingers sort of freeze in place, and now sometimes my joints hurt so much I can barely pick things up. so I wouldn't suggest doing it and you stop even if it hasn't taken affect yet.
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Sometimes I REALLY worry about all of my cracking habits. I do it more than anyone else in the world! I must crack my fingers dozens of times a day. I crack my toes and my knees (feels so good), back, neck (the neck really scares people sometimes since I have a very tall neck and you can hear it miles away), wrists, tips of fingers (I can crack about 4 places in each finger, every 10 minutes), and most recently my worst one yet...my left shoulder. It is starting to hurt when I do it, and I don't like doing it anymore but it kind of unconsciously happens. I wish I could stop. I have been cracking everything since I was about 8. I'm now 16. Every once in a while my knuckles do feel very thick and pressurey and stiff. I wish there was a cure to this awful habit. I don't want arthritis at 30.