The consequences of habitual knuckle cracking.
- 1 May 1975
- journal article
- Vol. 122 (5) , 377-9
Abstract
Habitual knuckle cracking in children has been considered a cause of arthritis. A survey of a geriatric patient population with a history of knuckle cracking failed to show a correlation between knuckle cracking and degenerative changes of the metacarpal phalangeal joints.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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