Cracking Your Knuckles Can Give You Arthritis: Science or Myth?

Here is an article from the Atlantic. Several studies over the last few decades have concluded that this idea of knuckle cracking causing arthritis is another urban myth. A study last year by the Defense Dept using rays showed that knuckle crackers actually have slightly less finger arthritis. I always explain to my patients that the sound is just the collapse of gas bubbles in the lubricating fluid of the joint same as the sound made by carbonation when opening a can of soda pop :-) 

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/05/cracking-your-knuckles-can-give-you-arthritis-science-or-myth/257851/#comments

Research study on spinal manipulation for cervical disc herniation

Some people are concerned about chiropractic treatment of disc herniation. I treat many patients with disc herniation in my office. Here are impressive results in a new study from the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics on chiropractic manipulation (adjustments) on patients with MRI documented disc herniations.
At 2 weeks, 55.3% were “improved,” 68.9% at 1 month and 85.7% at 3 months.
Has anyone had chiropractic treatment for a disc herniation?

http://www.jmptonline.org/article/S0161-4754(13)00176-0/abstract

As we have seen so commonly in medicine, just because something is high tech and marketed aggressively does not make it better.http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/new-concerns-on-robotic-surgeries/?src=rechp&_r=0

The $13,360.03 cat bite

Here is an article from the San Francisco Chronicle concerning the outrageous billing practices of hospitals.

http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/The-13-360-03-cat-bite-4744836.php