Cracking Your Knuckles

Interesting. They used to tell me that too, not my teacher (who, wisely, once told me that perhaps it was enough to do it in a way that wasn't excessively aggressive), but many people did. The only thing I knew, for some time now, is that that noise is produced by air forming in the joints (certainly not from bone rubbing: that would hurt hallucinatingly!) and therefore the "cracking" essentially amounts to popping air bubbles. When I used to play, I felt the urge much more, now much less, and perhaps it can be explained by the type of stress the joints are subjected to when playing. I used to crack them gladly, I couldn't help doing it, and so, given also the article you posted, if I were you I would do it only when necessary.

Abche I want to crack ... as Carlos says, sometimes it's a need and if I don't do it for days, it happens that just one slightly more decisive movement is enough to hear some clicking/cracking

Some doctors claim that it is harmful and that fingers should under no circumstances be cracked. Honestly, I have always thought it was a hoax as well. In some cases, if I don't crack them, my fingers feel truly "stuck" and I can't even play uniformly. However, I am glad to know that recent studies have shown that cracking does not cause damage to the joints. At least I will be able to continue cracking them in peace.

TheSimon wrote:

Some doctors claim that it is harmful and that under no circumstances should fingers be cracked.

I stopped worrying about the "danger" of the gesture when I started (at 16/17 years old) going to a very skilled physiotherapist who would manipulate a couple of discopathies caused by piano posture and fix my back. Do you know what manipulation is? A big, healthy, invigorating crack of all the vertebrae of the spine ra tta tta tta tta ttà after which you feel reborn and, for a few minutes, you are even a few millimeters taller (really!). Of course, he does it consciously and we crack [our fingers] a bit haphazardly, but I had already asked him back then and his response was (he is a very direct guy) "don't worry, nothing happens!". Having always put the backs of my entire family back in place, I have no doubts about the relevance of the answer...

Carlos wrote:

(he is a very direct type) "don't worry, nothing's gonna happen!"

And yes, very direct... Ahahahah

I prefer people like that 100 times more than those weaklings with their noses held high!

A "reflex" has been created within me so that now, even when I do it, I immediately think: No!! You don't do that, it hurts!! ahahha I need to recover for a moment. Anyway, over the years I have learned to crack other parts of my body like my back. I sound like a breaking branch but it relaxes me so much.

Me, as a teenager, I did it very often, then I stopped (maybe only because someone told me the noise was bothering them, but I don't remember...). I can only say that it's a habit, like biting your nails: you just have to stop doing it for a while, and you no longer feel any need for it.