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> occasional reports of dislocations (My wife treats hypermobile people... dislocations are prevalent there, in many many joints.)

by LeonB 6y ago

webmaven 6y ago
> > occasional reports of dislocations > (My wife treats hypermobile people... dislocations are prevalent there, in many many joints.) I belong to a very different subset: my finger joints (typically the last joint, nearest the tip, as opposed to the knuckle near the palm) crack very easily, often involuntarily (particularly in cold weather), or with a minimal amount of opposing muscular 'flex' while curling my fingers. The sound they make is a higher pitched click or snap, like a breaking twig, compared to the typical 'pop' of a cracked knuckle (which I can't actually do). I haven't ever come across anyone else whose fingers do this, either voluntarily or involuntarily. Is there a name for this?
- LeonB 6y ago
  You must be very special :). I don’t know why that would. My googling said it could be rheumatoid arthritis: > Rheumatoid arthritis Popping joints can also occur with forms of inflammatory arthritis, such as rheumatoid arthritis. High-pitched popping sounds from joints are more likely to be from inflammatory arthritis. Lower sounds can be from either inflammatory or noninflammatory arthritis, although this may be hard to distinguish From: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325341#what-conditions-make-it-worse https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325341#what-condit... ...but I don’t think this one symptom could be nearly enough to be evidence of that. Could just be specific to the joint architecture. Everyone is a little different.
  - webmaven 6y ago
    Thanks for the informative reply. I wonder, the terms we're using to describe sounds are a bit subjective (especially as they are on a continuum). Is there any medical site that gives representative examples of the various joint sounds?

> occasional reports of dislocations (My wife treats hypermobile people... dislocations are prevalent there, in many many joints.)

by LeonB 6y ago

> occasional reports of dislocations (My wife treats hypermobile people... dislocations are prevalent there, in many many joints.)

webmaven 6y ago

> > occasional reports of dislocations > (My wife treats hypermobile people... dislocations are prevalent there, in many many joints.) I belong to a very different subset: my finger joints (typically the last joint, nearest the tip, as opposed to the knuckle near the palm) crack very easily, often involuntarily (particularly in cold weather), or with a minimal amount of opposing muscular 'flex' while curling my fingers. The sound they make is a higher pitched click or snap, like a breaking twig, compared to the typical 'pop' of a cracked knuckle (which I can't actually do). I haven't ever come across anyone else whose fingers do this, either voluntarily or involuntarily. Is there a name for this?

LeonB 6y ago
You must be very special :). I don’t know why that would. My googling said it could be rheumatoid arthritis: > Rheumatoid arthritis Popping joints can also occur with forms of inflammatory arthritis, such as rheumatoid arthritis. High-pitched popping sounds from joints are more likely to be from inflammatory arthritis. Lower sounds can be from either inflammatory or noninflammatory arthritis, although this may be hard to distinguish From: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325341#what-conditions-make-it-worse https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325341#what-condit... ...but I don’t think this one symptom could be nearly enough to be evidence of that. Could just be specific to the joint architecture. Everyone is a little different.
- webmaven 6y ago
  Thanks for the informative reply. I wonder, the terms we're using to describe sounds are a bit subjective (especially as they are on a continuum). Is there any medical site that gives representative examples of the various joint sounds?