If you’ve ever popped or cracked your joints — by accident or on purpose — you’re not alone. There’s even a medical name for that crackling, clicking or popping sound your bones make: crepitus.

Medically reviewed by David Ozeri, MD Key Takeaways Cracking bones is actually just the sound of joints popping and is usually not a reason to worry. Painful joint cracking may be a sign of injury or ...

Medically reviewed by Anita Sadaty, MD Key Takeaways Collarbone popping is often a sign of a problem with the bones or joints ...

Nearly all of us have experienced our joints ‘pop’ at some point in our lives. Whether it was from cracking our knuckles, getting adjusted by a chiropractor, or the inadvertent sound that sometimes ...

No matter how old you are, you’ve likely heard or felt a pop, click, or creak coming from your ankles or other joints. In most cases this isn’t a cause for concern, unless the popping is accompanied ...

A good portion of people enjoying cracking or popping their knuckles. Or sometimes their knuckles, back, neck, and ankles. KENS 5's sister station WFMY wanted to know if the habit leads to arthritis.

Joints emit a variety of noises, including popping, snapping, catching, clicking, grinding, grating and clunking. The technical term for these noises is “crepitus”, from the Latin “to rattle”. People ...

A machine designed to 'crack' the metacarpophalangeal joints of human subjects, used in the 1970s study. Michael Huckabee is professor and director of the physician assistant program at UNMC. He's ...

Joints often crack due to harmless gas bubbles in fluid or tendons moving over bones. While usually normal, persistent pain, swelling, or stiffness could signal arthritis or injury. Staying active, ...

Ganglion cysts may look like harmless bumps on the hands or joints, but they are actually small fluid-filled sacs connected to the joint itself. While online "popping" tricks may be tempting, treating ...

Your body has millions of parts working together every second of every day. In this series, Dr. Jen Caudle, a board-certified family medicine physician and an associate professor at Rowan University ...