Dr. Mike Pierce

I think that when you look at cracking anything over and over again, you can create this hypermobility and the hypermobility in the joint where it's not stable, anything that's not stable, the body will create arthritis to stabilize it.

So that's essentially what arthritis is.

In the spine, when your spine, for example, is out of alignment and then it's not aligned properly, God designed your body to be always working for you.

Your body's always trying to help you and do the right thing at the right time.

So if my spine is crooked, for example, and it's not stable, my body will start creating bone spurs.

My body will start creating arthritis to try to stabilize that joint if I don't do it myself.

With your joints, if you're cracking your knuckles over and over again,

then what's happening, you're creating this level of instability.

And could it happen?

I mean, short answer is I don't know.

But when someone asks me this question, I usually ask them, how many times a day do you pop your knuckles?

And they would say, I don't know, like probably 10.

And I go, how would you feel if as your doctor, I told you, I want you to come in to see me 10 times a day to get adjusted.

You'd be like, that's insane.

I'm like, yeah, well, then stop popping your knuckles 10 times a day.

With their mindset.

I would ask them to have to do a very deep dive and figure out why now.

Who knows how they got there?

The point is, if you're here now and you want to get better, the question is you have to have a very deep rooted why of what's important to you to get this better.

So a drill I love to do with my patients.