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Warm up
All cracked up
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One hobby of mine is knuckle cracking. I don’t know why I do this. Perhaps some American TV show set a bad role model for me at a vulnerable age. Certainly I have had my fair share of criticism over the years on this point. Not least from my mother.
There is a myth or old wives tale that osteoarthritis of the fingers is a certain future for us knuckle crackers. I was therefore pleased to read recently of several studies on this very topic suggesting that things are not as bad as they are cracked up to be. Excuse the bad pun!
A paper by Daniel Unger, who clearly had similar thoughts, impressed me.1 He had cracked the knuckles of his left hand only (never the right) for 50 years. He then compared the degree of arthritis in his left and right hands and concluded that there
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