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Cracking your knuckles (or any of your joints) can have therapeutic benefits. When you crack one of your joints you are pulling the bones that are connected at the joint apart from each other. This process stimulates your tendons, relaxes your muscles, and loosens your joints. Chiropractors do this for spinal joints when your back is sore and stiff, but you can do this on your own for your knuckles, toes, knees, neck, etc. 


Unfortunately, there can be too much of a good thing. "Cracking your knuckles will never lead to arthritis"  (despite what your mom keeps telling you), but scientists have discovered that it can cause tissue damage in the affected joints. Knuckle-cracking pulls your finger bones apart which stretches your ligaments. "Too much stretching of your ligaments will cause damage to your fingers akin to the arm injuries sustained by a baseball pitcher who throws too many pitches". In addition to making your hand really sore, this ligament damage can also result in reduced grip strength. 


So lets see i crack my nuckles all of the time even when i am a sleep i crack my toe nuckles so i may be over doing it but its ok