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My 5 year old daughter just slid down stairs and now her hands makes noise when she moves like cracking noise but she can move her hand should i worry?

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Dr. Michael H. T. Sia answered

No: If the hand is not painful, red, warm, swollen or deformed in any way-the sound of cracking is normal for the joints. The cracking in younger youthful souls are air bubbles in the joint space popping-not bone against bone eroding away like elderly with osteoarthritis.

Dr Fowler and 2 doctors agreed

Answered 8/17/2013

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A member asked:

My 5 year old daughter just slid down stairs and now her hands makes noise when she moves like cracking noise but she can move her hand should i worry?

A doctor has provided 1 answer

Dr. Michael H. T. Sia answered

Dr Fowler and 2 doctors agreed

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