Clicky joints!

[Lorzy Lor]

A couple of questions!
1) if you click your fingers does it lead to authritus?

2) My little boy (three mths) sometimes is really clicky! For example, when he's kicking my hands, sometimes his foot bones click! Also, sometimes his shoulders do too! is this normal???!?

Thanks a million!!!

Lorzy xxx

[curlyperm]

dont know the outcome but people always say to me.........stop it you'll get rhumatism, or arthritis, but i have been doing it intentionally now for over 30 years, and i purposely crack all my bones, fingers toes knee caps ankles elbows etc, and i seem ok (for now anyway : )

[redcrx]

my little boy was like that, and even now at 18 months his ankles sometimes click a little bit. Ive always put it down to the fact that his bones are growing really fast.

[mycats]

No its not true.
I used to crack my knuckles all the time when I was young and was always getting told I would get atrthritis, then when I did get it at about 23 I thought it was all my own fault, but then I realised that I also had it in my wrists, shoulder, knee etc whch I have never cracked.
So I asked my doctor and she said its not true, the popping noise is just bubbles in the joints popping