Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site homxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!homxa!nd2k From: nd2k@homxa.UUCP (A.SCHWARZ) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Knuckle Cracking Message-ID: <350@homxa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 10:25:09 EDT Article-I.D.: homxa.350 Posted: Thu Aug 16 10:25:09 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Aug-84 01:03:58 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 9 Could anyone out there tell me if there are any medical consequences resulting from cracking one's knuckles? I have a friend who does this all the time. Thought I heard somewhere that it causes fluid build-up of some sort but he says that's an old wives tale.