Poll: Knuckle Cracking *CLick*
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I havent been able to crack my knuckles in about 5 years now... My fingers just bend and never crack...
I can crack my toes without touching them though, so thats my disturbing party trick.
I can crack my toes without touching them though, so thats my disturbing party trick.
I don't mind, I crack 'em, but only to loosen, It's bad to force them to pop, but if you just apply gentle pressure it's ok. I also pop my neck, back, knees, ankles and toes. but only if I don't have to apply force to do it.
I talked to a chiropractor and a kinesthesiologist. They both said what I told you above.
I talked to a chiropractor and a kinesthesiologist. They both said what I told you above.
Correct.TheFacelessOne said:
It's weird how some people seem to pride themselves on doing this stuff to their joints... ask any physician, they'll tell you what to look forward to if you keep it up.
For example - those of you cracking their necks (and continuing to do so) have about 12-15 years to go until not being able to even incline your head a tiny bit without SCREAMING IN AGONY. Have fun with that.
If it were air bubbles you would be quite dead now. But that is indeed one of the many theorys floating around on the internet. Werther it is correct is another story, mostly involving alot of research and as a result... Alot of knuckle cracking.Goldeneye1989 said:
Same here, but I also get my shoulders into it, and usually it's right before I start swinging some large object, like an axe, or a rattan sword. It calms me, allows me to refocus on the physical goal of my next few actions, and lets people know that I'm going for bust.Gxas said:
Feel free to cite valid medical references. I've cracked my neck consistently for about 15 years, and I have excellent neck and shoulder flexibility. My doctor doesn't LIKE the fact that I crack my knuckles or neck, but he's admitted that the old wives tale about 'giving yourself arthritis' is bunk. The worst he's mentioned is joint misalignments, and over-extension of the ligaments (which, don't get me wrong, are BAD THINGS). Both those things are obviously mitigated by the method by which you perform the action: the standard 'tough-guy knuckle crack' (fingers laced, turning the hands out away from you) might EVENTUALLY cause some hyper-flexion in the primary knuckle joint of your fingers, but it won't cause arthritis. Any joint pain will be directly due to over-extension, causing joint sprains, and then continuing to aggravate that injury by further joint-popping.Sonicron said:
It probably doesn't hurt that I have a fairly thick neck, to counter-balance the movement required to pop my neck joints, but I didn't have a particularly big neck 15 years ago. It's all a matter of the motion used; I just need to tilt my head to the side, and 'POP!', I'm done. If a person is popping their neck by applying pressure to their head with their hands, or using sudden snapping/jerking motions, their chances to cause injury goes up based on the fact that their overloading the joints and associated structures) and whipping around their skull, which is something the neck and shoulders are designed to prevent. Both those cases are a direct example of circumventing the body's intentionally injury-reducing design, and are GOING to cause an injury at some point. It's the same as phys. ed teachers and coaches telling people to avoid 'bouncing' when they stretch; they're defeating or ignoring the body's attempts to reduce injury.
What freaks people out is when you do that with your neck. It is a little discomforting but damn if it doesn't feel good.
Be careful when you crack your neck man. I cracked my neck all the time when I was a teenager. And then one day, I cracked it really loud and couldn't move my neck afterward...I had pulled a muscle! I had to wear a neck brace because of that...talk about embarrassing...Gxas said:
