The benefits and disadvantages of breaking fingers

In life, there are many people who have broken their fingers to snap and feel a sense of relief in their hands afterwards. So this kind of grasping and pinching, fist clenching and other ways is the finger joints put out a sound behavior, there is no benefit to our body? Is there any harm to it? Let's take a look at the benefits and disadvantages of finger wrestling.

What are the benefits of finger wrestling

Increase the flexibility of the joints

Generally speaking, when breaking the finger joints popping, the capillaries and peripheral nerves around the joints will be stimulated, thus increasing local blood circulation, which helps antispasmodic and anti-inflammatory. Moreover, after the joints are broken, it can relieve the stiffness of the fingers, which can increase the flexibility of the joints and facilitate the movement of the joints.

Relieve stress

Some people like to break their fingers when they are in a bad mood, or when they think about things. Just like listening to music, smoking and other behaviors, it is also a way to vent emotions. In the process of finger-breaking, you can relieve some psychological stress or calm down a bad mood.

What are the disadvantages of finger wrestling?

It can cause damage to the ligaments around the joint

If you break your fingers with too much force, or repeatedly break your knuckles for a long time, it will cause some damage to the joint ligaments, joint cartilage and joint capsule, such as acute injury to the ligaments around the joint, or to the tendon dislocation. This persistent injury is more likely to lead to secondary arthritis, which is usually felt as joint pain.

Joints tend to get bigger

The part pressed when breaking fingers is usually the joint, and the snapping sound produced at the joint comes from the joint capsule between the joints, which has a joint cavity inside, and the joint cavity contains joint fluid, like the lubricant of a machine, nitrogen. When we squeeze hard, the nitrogen gas overflows and produces the sound. Long-term finger-breaking tends to make the joint hyperplasia, that is, the joint becomes larger.

It tends to dislocate the knuckles

Excessive friction of the knuckles from long-term finger breaking tends to loosen the joint ligaments and can easily lead to dislocation of the knuckles.

Affects bone growth

For adolescents in the growth period, their bones are not yet well developed, frequent finger breaking will affect the bone growth of the hand and may cause the bones to grow curved.

Tend to cause tenosynovitis

Frequent finger wrestling and frequent finger flexion and extension movements will cause the flexor tendons to be repeatedly rubbed and squeezed in the bony fiber canal; the bony fiber canal will be squeezed by hard objects and palm bones, resulting in local congestion and edema in the bony fiber canal, thus causing tendovaginitis.

Warm Tips

If you keep your fingers in a posture for a long time, like surfing the Internet with a keyboard and mouse, after a long time writing, you can move your fingers so that they don't get stiff. But do not deliberately break your fingers, or even just to listen to the sound made when breaking your fingers. In order to avoid damage to the fingers, it is best not to have the habit of breaking fingers.