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Does cracking your knuckles cause arthritis? Wednesday, September 19, 2012 | 10:25 PM | 0 Comment(s)
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Claudia Hammond examines what causes the wince-inducing sound, and sifts through the evidence to see whether it actually damages your joints.
Some people crack their knuckles by pulling the tip of each finger one at a time until they hear a crack. Others make a tight fist or bend their fingers backwards away from the hand, cracking the lot at once. If you are one of those people who sits and cracks your knuckles while others wince, at some point somebody is bound to have told you that cracking your joints gives you arthritis.
For some it’s a nervous habit; for others the sensation brings relief. Depending on which research you read, between 25 and 54% of people do it, with men more likely to do so than women.
Whichever method is used, the noise is created in the same manner. The space between the joints increases, causing the gases dissolved in the synovial fluid bathing the joint to form microscopic bubbles. These bubbles merge into large bubbles which then get popped by additional fluid which rushes in to fill the enlarged space.
Once the joints have been cracked they can’t be cracked again for about fifteen minutes. This gives the space in the joint time to return to its normal size and for more gases to dissolve in the fluid, ready to form bubbles which can then pop all over again.
Taking an engineering approach, cracking the knuckles repeatedly over many decades could in theory damage the cartilage covering the joint. Comparisons have even been made with the mechanical wear and tearaccrued over time by ship’s propellers, but the evidence that the same is happening in people’s hands is thin.
Close to the knuckle
In fact, very few studies have been carried out at all. Perhaps one of the most well-known is the self-inflicted research rewarded with an Ig Nobel Prize in 2009. For more than 60 years, a Californian doctor called Donald Unger cracked the knuckles of his left hand at least twice a day, leaving his right knuckles uncracked. His conclusion? "I'm looking at my fingers, and there is not the slightest sign of arthritis in either hand," he said.
There have been some other, perhaps more formalised studies carried out. In 1975, twenty-eight residents in a Jewish nursing home in Los Angeles were asked whether they had ever cracked their knuckles habitually. Those who had were less likely to have osteoarthritis in their hands later on.
In fact, very few studies have been carried out at all. Perhaps one of the most well-known is the self-inflicted research rewarded with an Ig Nobel Prize in 2009. For more than 60 years, a Californian doctor called Donald Unger cracked the knuckles of his left hand at least twice a day, leaving his right knuckles uncracked. His conclusion? "I'm looking at my fingers, and there is not the slightest sign of arthritis in either hand," he said.
There have been some other, perhaps more formalised studies carried out. In 1975, twenty-eight residents in a Jewish nursing home in Los Angeles were asked whether they had ever cracked their knuckles habitually. Those who had were less likely to have osteoarthritis in their hands later on.
In a larger study conducted in Detroit in 1990, researchers examined the hands of three hundred people over the age of 45. Knuckle-crackers appeared to have a grip that wasn’t as strong, and 84% of them had signs of swelling in their hands. The authors say this means knuckle-cracking should be discouraged, but I wonder whether the people who crack their knuckles might feel more discomfort in their hands in the first place. Could this indicate a predisposition towards problems later on, rather than a cause? It’s worth pointing out that when it came to the crucial question of whether the joint-crackers had more osteoarthritis the answer was no.
The most recent study, published just last year, is the most comprehensive so far, because it looks not only at whether people ever crack their knuckles, but also how often they do it. You might guess that cracking your knuckles every fifteen minutes could have a very different effect from doing it once a day, but again it made no difference to rates of osteoarthritis. In fact, there was no difference in the prevalence of osteoarthritis between those who did or did not crack their knuckles.
Crack on
So how did the idea of a relationship between knuckle-cracking and arthritis emerge? It’s true that people who already have arthritis sometimes find their joints crack because the cartilage of the surface of the joints has been damaged. However it’s unusual for this to be the first symptom and it seems more likely to be a consequence of damage, rather than a cause. The risk factors of arthritis that have been established are age, a family history of the condition, and previous accidents with hand, or a lifetime of working with your hands doing heavy labour.
OK, but could cracking your knuckles cause other forms of damage? There are isolated reports of accidental self-inflicted injury from knuckle-cracking, with injured thumbs and sprained finger ligaments, but these are rare.
So if you like cracking your knuckles then by all means carry on, but just bear in the mind the conclusions of the doctors who carried out the research in the LA nursing home. They said: “The chief morbid consequence of knuckle cracking would appear to be its annoying effect on the observer.”
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Meet Migaloo, the Indiana Jones of Dogs Tuesday, September 18, 2012 | 10:45 PM | 0 Comment(s)
September 7, 2012
We find ourselves in a dark cave. In the blackness, we can't tell how big or small the space is. There is a burst of light as Migaloo -- a Labrador mix -- ignites a torch and creeps forward, her eyes intent on the prize before her, her wet nose wiggling as she takes in the scents of the cave: rats, mold, water in the distance, and snakes -- yuck! She hates snakes. With her keen sense of smell, Migaloo needs no light to know that in front of her on a raised dais is a small golden statue, a key to an archeological mystery hundreds of years old. She approaches the dais but senses something amiss -- a booby trap!
She readies a bag of sand to swap with the statue to prevent the activation of the trap. Breathing deeply and panting heavily (because she's a dog, and she can't sweat), she hesitates before snatching the statue and replacing it with the bag. But she's no cat! There is a rumbling from deep within the cave, as if a giant's belly has come to life with a terrible hunger. Out of the darkness emerges a boulder, propelled by gravity, reeling toward Migaloo, destined to crush the canine under its weight ...
Okay, so Migaloo's work isn't that cinematic, but she is the world's first bioarcheology detection dog. Her human, Gary Jackson, is an adept dog trainer who has taught canines from basic obedience to highly specialized detection services. After six months of training, Gary has trained Migaloo how to sniff out and indicate human remains more than a century old. It's different from cadaver dog work, in that Migaloo is trained to sniff for human bones and not decomposing flesh.
Using 250-year-old loaned Aboriginal bones (treated with the utmost care and reverence, of course), Migaloo successfully identified the human remains even when surrounded by animal bones. But her big break came when she found four burial spots more than 600 years old in Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. The site had never been excavated and had only been hinted at by bone fragments found by a digger.
Watch Migaloo in action below (skip ahead to 03:25).
There have been no tools available to detect archeological human remains -- until now. Though Migaloo's work is still in its infancy, it might turn out to be groundbreaking.
Story and photos via The History Blog
Deaf, Three-Legged Dog Survives a Week Lost in Alaskan Bear Country | 10:44 PM | 0 Comment(s)
September 10, 2012
Stories about dogs who wander away from campsites and get lost in the woods are terribly sad. Those stories would be even sadder if it was a deaf dog who only had three legs, and was 15 years old, and entered a wilderness that was filled -- literally overflowing -- with bears.
Meet Mazzy Star, the deaf, three-legged, 15-year-old Husky who wandered away from the campsite in Alaska's Russian River area and into a wilderness that was filled, literally overflowing, with bears.
First, let's speak to how many bears are in the area. According to the Alaska Dispatch, "Black bears were trashing tents in the campground. Grizzly sows and their cubs were wandering the banks." That's a lot of bears, by any measure, but especially by the measure of me sitting in at this desk.
Mazzy Star had come to the area with the Clydes -- a family of self-described "river-traveler tent people," according to the Dispatch -- and two other dogs. All three dogs had kennels to sleep in, under an trailer overhang to protect against rain. But in the morning, Mazzy was gone, the kennel door somehow unlatched. Mazzy had gone off into the wilderness, which contains "dozens of bear pathways laced throughout the area," according to the Clyde couple.
Rescue efforts were quickly launched.
"Campground employees helped search the thick, brush-filled woods," reports the Dispatch. "Four of them even scrambled down a steep 100-foot ravine from the campground to the river below, climbing through cottonwood and spruce trees and withstanding scrapes delivered by thorny plants."
"If we found anything, we were expecting to find a body," said Dianne Owen, the campground's general manager.
The Clydes remained at the campground, searching, and the days passed. After a week, they knew they had to go; along with their two young boys, the couple also had an 18-month-old. Jobs and school had to be attended to. Life had to go on.
So, with heavy hearts, they left.
"Leaving a dog who you think had a horrible ending, who was expecting you to save her somehow, was just terrible," Karen told the Dispatch. "I just had to say bye to her and realize that I wasn't going to see her. Chances are she'd been eaten. I had this horrible feeling in my stomach the whole way."
Steady yourself. This story has a happy ending.
One day after the family arrived home, Karen received a call. Mazzy was safe. Eight days after she had run off, she was found trotting down the road near the campground. One of the campground employees drove by in disbelief.
"When I got out of the truck she hopped right over and looked at me with 'Wow, I am safe now' eyes," he told the Dispatch. "You could tell she had been giving it her all. It seemed like she hadn't stopped to rest the whole time she had been gone."
Mazzy was a little worse for wear -- she was tired and dirty, and had lost weight and some fur on her tail -- but very alive. Karen's husband drove 15 hours straight to go pick her up.
When he arrived, Mazzy's "ears perked, tail wagged, and she walked over to his side."
Labels: Amazing, Dog, Wonderful
Meet Zeus, the Tallest Dog in the World | 10:41 PM | 0 Comment(s)
September 14, 2012
The world now has a new top dog: the correctly named Zeus. This towering canine checks in at an impressive 3 feet, 8 inches, making the altitudinous beast -- a Great Dane, maybe the Greatest Dane? -- the tallest dog in the world, according to Guinness World Records 2013, which launched Sept. 13.
How much taller is Zeus than the foe he vanquished? One inch! But what an inch. The previous dog, Giant George, must now return to the world of mere mortals as simply one hell of a giant dog.
As for Zeus, he is expected to be an exemplary champion.
"He loves to sit on laps," says his owner, Kevin Doorlag. "But if he stays on my lap for a while, he tends to get on the heavy side."
He says Zeus "loves human contact. He's a leaner."
Denise and Kevin Doorlag bought the dog when he was just a puppy, and they watched him grow like a beanstalk. By and by they noticed the dog develop a surprising, delightful trait: big ol' softiness.
"He kind of acts like a small dog," Kevin Doorlag told People.com. "He towers over [most dogs], but it's kind of funny. Even the smaller dogs will start sniffing, and if they bark, he'll run behind you. He's scared. He doesn't really realize how big he is."
Zeus, you're 44 inches tall, from the ground to the top of your withers, or shoulders. When you add in your neck and your head, you're nibbling on apples from a tree.
"It's kind of comical," says Doorlag. "Everybody we see is like, 'Is that a horse? Is he part horse, part giraffe?'"
Zeus' gentle nature led the Doorlags to get the dog involved in therapy work, volunteering at the local hospital in Kalamazoo, Mich. Doing the rounds from such great heights puts Zeus at an advantage, as his giant head can zoom right in on the patients, lap-level.
"When we're doing pet therapy, he'll go up to the beds," Doorlag told People.com. "It's nice with his size -- patients don't have to bend over. He's actually at face level."
Guinness World Records 2013 hit the Web and bookstores on Sept. 13. Be sure to give Zeus a glance before you go looking for fingernail-man.
Via People.com
Labels: Dog, Photography, Strange
German Shepherd Stands Watch Over His Owner's Grave -- For Six Years | 10:38 PM | 0 Comment(s)
September 18, 2012
A German Shepherd from the Cordoba province of Argentina is setting a new bar for eternal loyalty -- he's kept vigil at his owner's grave every day, lying down in front of the tombstone at night. The dog, named Capitan, keeps a steady watch, never veering far from his duty as man's best friend.
He's done it for six years.
“During the day he sometimes has a walk around the cemetery, but always rushes back to the grave,” said Hector Baccega, the cemetery’s director, according to CBS Seattle. “And every day, at [6 p.m.] sharp, he lies down on top of the grave and stays there all night.”
But there's more to this story about a dog who doesn't understand the point, or the need, of saying goodbye. To be sure, Capitan displays an impressive ability by standing guard over his owner. But he displayed an otherworldly one in simply finding the grave in the first place, because nobody took him there.
Reportedly, his owner, Miguel Guzmán, passed away in a hospital and was taken to a funeral home and then to the cemetery. None of the family members recalls the dog being present at any of those sad places. In fact, nobody even noticed that the dog had disappeared from the home after Guzmán's funeral.
“The following Sunday we went to the cemetery,” said Guzman’s wife, Veronica, according to CBS Seattle. “Capitan came up to us, barking and wailing, as if he were crying.”
“We had never taken him to the cemetery, so it is a mystery how he managed to find the place,” she said.
The dog followed the family home that day but quickly returned to stand watch. Baccega, the cemetery’s director, said the dog had arrived alone one day and wandered around the grounds for a while before finding the grave by himself.
And there he sat with his master.
“I’ve tried to bring Capitan home several times, but he always comes straight back to the cemetery,” said Damian, Guzman’s 13-year-old son. “I think he’s going to be there until he dies, too. He’s looking after my dad.”
Via CBS Seattle
Labels: Confucius, Dog, Loyalty
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