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Synovial Pressure

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claim: it is false that cracking your knuckles is bad for you if you crack your knuckles it just loosens up your fingers.there is a lubricant around your bones and when you crack your knuckled there is a little bubble that pops. Your hands contain lots of joints, joints at which two or more bones meet. Ligaments connect connect the bones to each other, and a capsule that's filled with synovial fluid. Pushing or pull your fingers to crack them what you're really doing is stretching the capsule that surrounds the joint. That decreases the pressure inside the capsule, causing gasses that were dissolved in the synovial fluid such as carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and oxygen to release into the empty space to equalize the pressure. Like pulling

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