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Chuck Bryant

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Short Stuff: Knuckle Cracking

We do some retirement homes.

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Those people are starving for banter.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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If he didn't have the compulsion to crack his knuckles, I could see how this happened.

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But if you are a knuckle cracker, you're kind of you feel compelled to do it.

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So I can't imagine what it would have taken to not crack knuckles.

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the knuckles on one hand for that many years.

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It must've been really tough.

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That's my guess.

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So yeah, he did this over his lifetime.

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He x-rayed himself on the reg and eventually decades later came to the conclusion that he doesn't have any arthritic difference in his hands.

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Case closed.

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No, they have recess.

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Yeah, which, you know, as you age, grip strength is important.

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So it's definitely not a harmless thing.

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There are some other possible side effects, something called ligament laxity, which is basically looseness.

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So over time, if you're just doing this a lot –

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that's what leads to the reduced grip strength and sometimes sort of overall hand function.

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I think in rare cases, if you have a really weird method or forceful method or you're a little too aggressive with it, you can get some soft tissue swelling around the knuckles and the joint.