When you crack your neck and back, it often feels good afterwards, especially if there was a great deal of tension or pain prior. The reason it feels good is because pressure is being relieved. Just as when any of your joints crack, gases are being released from within the synovial membranes. This release can cause a temporary relief of pressure or pain. In most cases though, the pressure or pain will return. Many people can forcibly crack their joints, even their neck and back. In some cases, such as when performing or exercises, natural movement may also cause cracking.

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You might also visit a chiropractor who will crack your neck and back through a series of manipulations. While these manipulations can relieve pain and pressure in these areas, there are some studies that indicate cracking the neck may be linked to an increased risk of stroke. If you forcibly crack your neck or back frequently, especially as a means to relieve pressure and pain, you might consider visiting a chiropractor or other medical professional. In some cases, chronic neck cracking can lead to loss of elasticity in the, which forces the muscles to work harder and tire easier. This happens when the joints are forced beyond their normal and the ligaments stretch out over time. When they do not return to normal, this causes a condition known as. I'm 18 and have been an active horseback rider for five years now.

I've have a good amount of spills just like any rider. But my first fall when I was 13 years old was the worse. I was slammed up against an arena wall when the horse spooked and reared up into the wall with me on his back. Since then I've had incredibly severe back and neck pain. Just a month ago I started getting a zapping feeling in my fingers and toes, so I went to the doctor to get checked out. After a long X-ray, my doctor stated I have a extreme case of arthritis that someone my age shouldn't have. I'm getting an MRI.

Done in a couple days to see if a fragment of bone is poking my spinal cord (causing the zapping) and if so they will want to go through with surgery or else the bone could penetrate and cause me to be paralyzed. What I know as now is that I'm forbidden to ride ever again and I'm not allowed to pick up heavy objects. (Still debating on the on riding thing though) but I crack my neck and back all the time as a form of pain relief. It works better than the pain meds in my opinion. If anyone has these kind of problems they should get checked out by a professional. There can be more underlying problems than just the cause of the pain.

Hope this helps someone reading! -Brie 18 OH,USA.

I'm 18 and I took a really bad fall from a horse last May. I fell under the horse during a jumping competition because I was being stupid and reached down the pat the horse as I came off the last fence after a good course. I slipped underneath him and he stepped on my leg (which had swelling between the bones in the lower leg), my back, and I was kicked in the back of the head (luckily I had my helmet on and I was just knocked out and had a severe concussion.) But I have this really annoying popping feeling/sound in my neck that is close to the base of my skull and when I turn.

I have the answers you have been looking for. Let's look at a few designs of the body. First, I would like to tell you that I have rehabilitated myself from two head-on collisions. Popping your neck or back is good and bad, depending on the situation. The nerves that operate your motor function are the insides of your nerve, like a coax TV cable. The outer sheath is like the black outer cover on the aforementioned cable.

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The sensory input that you feel with is this outer layer. The inner is what you move your muscles with. Here's the kicker. When the outer layer is compressed enough to mix the signals, the sensory nerve system activates the motor nerve. System, causing a never ending loop cycle. The only way to stop this is to remove the pressure causing the cycle. Hence, the popping.

Whatever caused the problem is irrelevant, whether you were in a car wreck or straight legged yourself walking off a curb. Diet also plays a part in recovery. As a child growing, you stretched until you were finished growing. Then stretching was not normal to do except upon rising from bed. Sorry, this is just a five minute summary, First, the muscles support the bones. Then as we get older, the muscles no longer support the bones. We do a balancing act the rest of our lives.

The damage done and the degenerative action over the years will decide what ailments you have. Neck and back pressure is relieved from the pressure released from the nerve, then the muscles relax, and blood flow can continue as normal. I didn't think it would take this long to answer this, but I have waited my whole life for this answer. I got it from experience. It is factual.

I'm 14 and I crack almost every joint. I feel a real stiffness in my shoulders and back and a constant niggling pain in a lot of my joints and I feel cracking my joints relieves a bit of pain. I have been to my local GP about it and he said he would get me a chiropractor. I was just worried if cracking my back makes it worse. I had these niggling pains for as long as I can remember when they first started.

I need a solution. I mean, I'm 14, yet I feel like an old man sometimes. When I sit down on the floor for about five minutes, my back feels like it's going to explode. Can somebody tell me what I can take apart from glucosamine/chondroitin/msm/fish oils to stop my back/neck from cracking? I've been in pain a long time and yes, I've been to see a lot of physios/chiros/osteopaths and so on. I have pain because I've worked in manual work. I now don't work.

I've got chronic pain from morning to night. I don't really sleep much and I suffer from depression. What I want to know is, is there something else I could take to maybe oil my insides so I don't feel as much pain? I've tried taking a lot of herbal medicine over time but nothing, so please help. Tips, anything. Thank you for listening and sorry for any spelling mistakes. I'm 16 years old and have been cracking my back and neck for about five years now, but not forcefully but by stretching.

I've been training and still am training in four sorts of kung-fu, wing-chun, chi-cong, tai-chi and baguazan. After I read that cracking the neck could lead to a stroke I'm a bit afraid of stretching my body. I never force it to crack but it just happens when I like, turn my head or torso, should I take it more carefully or is it okay if I do it naturally like this? Please help me out and I apologize for my bad grammar/english. I live in Sweden. Thank you all in advance!

I am 34, and I started cracking my jawbone, neck and knuckles when I was 12-13. It was like a tic, and had a lot to do with self consciousness (I think).

I would also close my eyes until they hurt. Anyway, not anymore. Now, I do mostly lower back and hip manipulation on my own. I think that it relieves some pressure, but it does not relieve the cause.

I don't think it worsens it, yet I believe it might help you focus and reeducate it? How about, instead of cracking it, keeping it relaxed and open at all times? Is it possible? I think it might be. (Here I will be talking about lower back only) For. Example, laughter is very good exercise.

Sometimes, just sitting and relaxing your thoughts will crack your lower back, no? So improve your life in ways to enjoy every moment, and keep those muscles relaxed. Plus you need to work on muscle imbalances (very important). I will talk about a discovery, that I myself have to work harder on. If I had more discipline it would be much better by now.

When you crack your back, you can start dancing, moving, walking, jumping, etc., accompanied with rhythmic breathing. This (I believe) is a small window where you can re-educate the muscles around the joint, so that they will not close back on you. It won't happen overnight, and it will require attention, focus, concentration, but the more you do the breathing in-out, and letting your body with the flow into motion, the longer lasting relaxation your body gets, and less frequently you will need to realign it. To my mind, it is similar to the euphoric state some native dancers get. After a while you might have your own dance ritual, or exercise ritual, which will lubricate all your joints. Again, I never had this, except a very few times, but it's worth a try. What I mean is, don't just rest on the window until it shuts by itself.

When it opens, do what is necessary so it remains open. I am fourteen and i play soccer three to four times a week, and do various other sports and a range of stuff and my bones crack without having to force them. My back cracks when i breathe and various other bones crack without warning but when i crack my back with force it feels really good and it does relieve tension and pain. I get one day out of my entire week without doing something.

I think i might have scoliosis but not sure. My friends say that even when i am asleep, as soon as i move or turn my bones crack. Every single time.

So is that normal? I crack all my joints (or ligaments i guess) been doing it for over 11 years now, to my back, neck, tail bone, shoulders, elbow, collar bone, ankle, knee, fingers, wrist, jaw, hips, and toes.

It feels amazing. I only have one issue. I broke my big toe when i was six years old. I didn't go to the doctor and so it healed on its own, with no problems, except every time I take a step with that foot, the toe pops, every single time, since I was six years old. I'm 23 now, so that's 17 years of constant cracking, every single step. My doctor said that's equal to 113 years of normal cracking, and nothing has developed. No arthritis, no pain, nothing.

So I don't know if popping your joints is bad. All I know is it feels so good. Cracking your back and/or knuckles doesn't increase the chances of arthritis. My proof is, a few decades ago a man decided to crack his left hand knuckles for 50 years but not his right hand. At the end of the 50 years he had no more arthritis in his left hand than he did in his right. And I can also prove it as well.

I had an x-ray on my hand before I started cracking my knuckles and neck and so far after three years of cracking, I have no problems whatsoever with my knuckles or neck, which I have been doing for two years. No change to my physical condition. I have been cracking my back and neck for months now. I'm 14, turning 15 soon and I have noticed the amount of injuries I've recently had.

A few nights ago I was taken to hospital as I couldn't move my neck or back, and it took three doctors to crack my back. They said they have never seen such a bad condition for my age, I asked if it was due to my recent neck and back cracking, but they didn't know. They just told me I did it because it relaxes my neck and back for a short amount of time before the stress builds back up. So I have to ask: did my back cracking lead to.

I'm a 20 year old female and I experience a very odd sensation whenever my back cracks due to stretching in the morning or just during the course of my day. (I never do it on purpose) After the crack it almost feels like my body goes limp and I kind of fall over if I'm standing up or slump over if I'm in bed. The sensation only lasts 2-3 seconds, but I find it extremely bizarre. I haven't asked a doctor about it, since it's not really too big of a deal, but I must admit, the first few times were scary, and it must look pretty weird when I'm standing up and just suddenly slump over. Any ideas what's going on?

I began cracking when I was around 10. I got out of bed by doing a push-up and noticed my elbow cracked.

Then I found out my shoulder could if I rotated it. I didn't have pain; it just felt good. I'm 16 now and still doing it.

I crack: fingers, wrists, elbows, shoulders, neck, jaw, back, shins/lower part of leg, upper thigh bone, ankles, and toes. The ones I crack most of the time are my fingers, neck, back, and wrists.

When I get out of bed I can crack my neck and back like crazy. It feels great! It even does after. It's an addiction or something. I'm always cracking something on my body. Also in the morning. I never really cracked anything in my day.

I was injured 3 years ago which left me with severe back neck and nerve pain that radiated through all my ligaments. After several surgeries to relieve the pain, I decided to see a chiropractor.

It was a godsend! I now have little pressure as I have not finished all of my treatment. I am now able to run, I was barely able to walk less than a two years ago! If popping does cause problems after 50, I'm okay with that because it has cured the worst pain anyone can ever feel.

Spasms are like having a charlie horse through your entire body! I am so glad I don't have to feel that anymore! It also helped with problems in my wrists from years of sports and painting (I'm a professional freelance artist).

I'm a dancer and have done ballet, jazz, and lyrical since I 3, so about 13 years. And ever since I can remember, every time I point my foot in tendue in front of me, my big toes and pinky toes pop. I shift weight onto it, my ankles pop. I bend my knees, my knees pop. I kick my leg, well what do you know, my hips pop. I flick my wrist, and my wrists pop. I stretch up and over to one side to stretch out my sides and my upper back pops.

I'm sure you understand the cracking now. None of it do I do on purpose, except my knuckles when I am stressed, but every joint. In my body will pop within the first 15 minutes of dance class every day. My point to all of this?

I believe that your joints popping is completely natural and your body is meant to pop. But not forcefully by having your head slammed side to side or twisting you neck or back further than normal. And if it hurts to pull/push a joint that far in that direction, than it is probably not normal.

Then again, I am young,what do I know? Maybe I won't have a single problem when I'm older and neither will all my friends who go to chiropractors or forcefully crack their joints. Or, maybe I'll be severely unable to move when I'm 50. But, for now, I'm perfectly healthy and have no pain anywhere from naturally letting my muscles stretch or slowly tilting one direction or the other.

I am currently 15 and have been cracking my joints since I was 10. So five years.

I can crack every finger in two spots, all my toes, two bones in my foot, infinitely crack my wrists and ankles. Crack wrists and ankles in another way too, my back in four places, my neck in one place and sometimes in two. And I think that's it. I sometimes worry that I am going to become an arthritic old lady, and I am positive that I am addicted, since I crack all the above joints unconsciously. I have tried giving up and failed a lot, but I have found that fiddling with things like detailed small toys and stuff help a lot.

You just have to be committed to remembering the specific toy, which I failed in doing. If anyone can help me give up, I would heavily appreciate it. I'm 35 and I've been cracking my joints since i was a little kid. My mom always told me don't do that, you'll get arthritis. I have a lot to say about this after over 20 years of cracking my joints. A) I definitely still believe it to be a good thing, cracking my joints, as regularly as possible. B) I think there are some unknown external causes which can exacerbate the frequency and need.

C) Apparent negative effects of cracking joints may be attributable instead to the cause of the need for cracking in conjunction with not exercising the required regimen of regular joint cracking. D) Related to c): If you need to crack your joints you need to. Crack your joints. Stopping cracking them is when the problems arise. E) I am inclined toward the belief that going to a chiropractor at an early age kicked off the cracking.

Once my joints were being cracked the barrier was opened or something and now they won't stop. If I don't crack my joints an inflexibility builds up, which just goes right away as soon as they crack. I can even feel it in my sleep. At night I periodically lean a certain way to crack a certain part in my back. It requires only a slight movement on my part and to me is basically a custom and complete remedy for whatever causes the anomaly. To summarize, it is what it is.

I don't think it's bad, and if you feel your joints cracking I suggest you learn to crack them. It did literally take me years of progression to learn how to crack all the various things that need to be cracked on my body.

My neck i tilt just a certain way, With my back, all up and down my back i can wiggle and adjust the whole thing, and that causes a chain reaction that tends to make my wrist and fingers pop, and lately my face. Yes, that's right: the bridge of my nose, the bones and cartilage in my nose and under my upper lip, even my skull joints make a miniscule pop and i feel relief when i press on my forehead and different parts of my face. Another thing about it: there is a little bit of a pain threshold you have to learn to cross right at first to be able to really crack the joints. Remember this can take years to develop and only certain people experience this, others do not. I've been cracking for years and my knuckles aren't stiff.

It started when I was getting out of bed in the middle of the night to get some water; I did a push up and my elbow cracked. Then I found out I could rotate my arm in a circle while on my side and my shoulder could crack (not pop) every time. Then I started pulling my fingers to crack them. Nowadays I can't pull them. Well, I can, but it doesn't do much for me. Instead, I have two ways of cracking my knuckles: folding and pressing and twisting.

I also crack my wrists, ankles, knees, shin, toes, the bones at the top of my food near the. Ankle, and especially my neck and back. In the morning I'll twist both ways and my neck and back will crack like 10+ times, no lie.

I do it because it feels good, and it does relieve pain. I do have some back problems as in it's difficult for me to sit upright because it isn't comfortable to. I also constantly have this slight pain/discomfort in my back lingering in the back of my mind, but I can easily bear without really noticing it.

But anyway, nothing serious has happened to me yet, and I just hope nothing will. Okay so I'm 12 and i don't really have a date where i started cracking, but my dad used to crack my toes for me. Now i just bend them and only my big toes crack i crack my knuckles a lot. I have scoliosis so i don't really crack my back - only when I'm stiff from sitting in class with bad posture.

But my problem is my wrists. I crack my left one constantly and i can't stop. It sometimes burns because i do it so much.

It feels good, though. I make a fist then snap and oh yeah. I do it with the other one and it hurts because it's not used to it so i don't do that one and it cracks a lot. Anyone know why or how i can crack anything else?

And i play a lot of sports. Can this affect it? I wouldn't go cracking my knuckles when I'm off training from mixed martial arts. Because they're not warmed up (which lubricates them) and so you can cause them damage! Warm them up by doing something active and natural and there won't be many problems. Top tip: consume regular omega 3 (mostly from fish oil) and omega 6 (mostly from vegetable oil) to lubricate your joints that is great for arthritis sufferers and healthy joints.

Top tip 2: Buy some Glucosamine/chondroitin/MSM supplements to regenerate your cartilage that is caused by wear and tear, particularly from not warming up! PS I went to physio the other day for a professional opinion, which I would always recommend and she cracked. After reading so many comments on the subject of 'joint cracking', i must say that i am disappointed by all the misinformation that still exists. I have earned a chiropractic doctorate over 20 years ago and can tell all of my professions critics out there that chiropractic manipulation is a very safe mode of spinal health providing that the doctor performing it does so after careful examination and consideration. Very often there are dramatic improvements to all sorts of painful maladies. Most back and neck pain mechanical in nature.

There is much too much to comment on but I feel compelled to answer those critics about stroke potential. Ask yourself this question: 'Why is chiropractic malpractice insurance premiums among the.

Yeah, I'm 37 and have been cracking my fingers, wrists, neck, back, knees, hips, toes, and ankles since I was about 10. I typically crack everything upon waking and then maybe through the day a few times.

I feel stiff beforehand and better afterwards. I never have any joint pain. I have mild genetic hypermobility, but I work out a lot and have fairly good muscular support around the joints. People experiencing pain associated with hypermobility are not making it worse by cracking. They are making it worse by not strengthening the muscles that support the joints. I am 15, and I have genetic hypermobility. For years, my back, shoulders, and neck need constant stretching and cracking, or else I am too stiff to move.

Once I do crack them, I am pain free for about 5 seconds, then it gets a little bit worse every time. I also have a couple of disgustingly flexible fingers, and my feet can do weird things too. I have gone to countless doctors, taken tons of meds, had an MRI, and went to physical therapy, which also made my condition worse. I've tried heat and ice therapy, but that didn't help. I really don't know what to do about it, I think I am too young to be in constant screaming pain. Sometimes I can't even sleep because of the pain.I'm scared of the chiropractor, and I did at one time consider acupuncture, but then again I'm a trypanophobia. Damn my genes.

What do I do? I am quite sure 'cracking' you knuckles, or popping bubbles that dissolve into the synovial membrane does not drastically affect your body. The only thing I would not recommend doing is cracking your back, unless for exercising warm up purposes.

Back pain is very common due to the recent 'twisting of the back' on the chairs which mess up your disks. But, this tells you, kids are starting to hold onto bad habits because of school. Cracking your knuckles, in fact, isn't as bad as people say. If you do it too much though, you will begin to shake your hand uncontrollably once you become old.

Cracking my neck for several years, I have found no problem with pain or any of the sort. Even if there is pain, I guess cracking my neck again solves it all. Get occasional check ups, for maintenance purposes. I recommend at least once every year. Anyone in her who knows anything about scientific research knows that anecdotal evidence is not sound evidence. Cracking has never been proven to increase risk for stroke, or paralysis or arthritis.

Chiropractors (of which i am definitely not an advocate) will crack your neck in extension (like you are looking up at the sky) in some people with what is called a vertebrobasilar insufficiency (the arteries that run up your vertebrae to your brain) this.could. cause damage. Easy way to solve this: perform the cracking in flexion (chin tucked to chest). There has never been a case reported where this is a problem when performed correctly. I would personally see a physician (Osteopathic, D.O.) if i needed cracking. I am 15 and I can crack my fingers, toes, back, neck, knees and hips.

Every time I crack one of these, it feels good. I have never had any trouble or problems with any of my joints due to cracking them, and I have been doing this ever since I was seven. After reading most of the comments, I have noticed that I can't sit still for more than ten minutes, and that I often wake up feeling back pain. I can't be sure that the pain I am receiving is from cracking my joints, or from something else. The next time I do see a doctor though, I will ask him if this pain is from cracking, or if it is from bad posture or something else.

I'm 24 and have suffered from hypermobility all my life because of a genetic condition. I can crack every single joint in my body and not always on purpose. I now suffer from severe back pain and have not been able to walk pain free for four months. I also get trapped nerves in my back which (when it happens) is so painful I can't move at all, not even to yawn. I used to crack my fingers and now I get pains in the joints so bad you can't move them. Although this all happens totally at random it is still very debilitating and you have to rely on others quite a lot.

Please, before it gets to my stage get it all checked out by a qualified, reliable chiropractor. Strengthen muscles around weak joints and don't crack joints voluntarily. I am 14 and for years my mom and the rest of my family has been warning me that cracking my back, neck, fingers, toes, knees, elbows and most recently my shoulder is not a good thing to do. When I was younger I broke both my arms at the same time and some strange thing happened to my shoulder. I could pop it in and out of place without any pain. It actually feels really good. But, I popped it too many times.

One day in PE I was playing dodgeball. I threw a ball and my shoulder popped out of place and wouldn't pop back in. I stood there like an idiot and got pelted with balls and. Holding my shoulder. I felt like crying.

I didn't pop my shoulder for a week after that. But stupid me started popping it again. Although that never happened again, I still worry about it every time. Just about everyone now cracks their fingers.

But not as much as I do. And it's really hard to stop cracking when you see everyone cracking their fingers every second of the day. I also pop my neck and I have been doing that for about a few months. But even those few months I can already feel my neck muscles wearing out. I have pains in my neck when I move it too much and I have pains in my neck when I don't move it at all.

I'm 14 and I wake up in the middle of the night my back aching and wishing I can go back to sleep. I can't stay still during class because of my back and neck and I get pointed out by my 'friends' sometimes saying that i look weird when I always move my neck around. So, it seems very impossible to stop popping my neck, back, shoulder, fingers, and everything else, but I will try to do my best. Hopefully I will be able to get through and not wake up in the middle of the night wishing to go back to sleep. If you have just started popping anything, then stop!

Or else you will be in terrible pain like me. Note: While typing this out I have popped my neck three times, fingers twice, and shoulder. I lost count. I did this not even having a second thought of it. I warn you to stop. I am 23 years old and i can crack several different joints in my fingers and toes as well as my entire back, my neck, my elbows, knees, shoulder, ankles, and also that joint where the femoral bone attaches to the pelvis. I do this routine a few times a day with the exception of doing my back only once and my neck whenever it feels like it needs to pop, usually about 10 times a day.

I do this in addition to eating healthy and exercising thoroughly. I have been doing this since i was about seven years old (for 17 years) to relieve pressure in my joints and it works magnificently! I have learned how to position my. You won't get arthritis from cracking any joints. It's just a release of air, and it feels good because it reduces the pressure from between the joints.

You do it slowly every day, just making it crack quickens the process, which isn't any more harmful. The best thing to remember is to trust your body.

We all forget our body doesn't want us to hurt ourselves. So if it hurts, stop doing it, if it doesn't hurt, then there's no issue. If it hurts it's your body saying chill out.

Our body is more intuitive than we give it credit for. I'm 28 and have been cracking various parts of my body for almost 10 years now. The most notable is my back however. I used to crack it in back in college using the student desk we had. It often made the best cracks when pushing my spine against the backrest.

That was five years ago and I missed how good those cracks were, so much so like it was a drug or good sex from an ex girlfriend. I've always considering buying one of those desks for home but I don't know how I would explain having one of those to my friends and family. Two days ago I popped my neck - not forcefully, just tilting it side to side. Immediately I felt like I had been hit by a train.

I have had migraines for 15 years, but never one like that. Shortly after that I started vomiting. The next day my neck was swollen and bruised. That day I also had bouts of tinnitus and tingling in my face. I finally made it to the doctor today (two days later) and I was diagnosed with whiplash.

Personally, I don't understand after popping all my joints for many years, how I could now cause myself to get whiplash, but the pain is excruciating. If you pop your joints, I would refrain from the back and neck area as these could both cause serious damage. I am 18 and I have been cracking since I was 15. I crack my back, neck, hips, fingers, knees, toes and elbows very frequently, but the most severe is my back. I crack it several times a day because it is so stiff. It feels amazing when I crack it, although it still feels so stiff after.

Also, my right hip has a strange 'hip click' that constantly occurs, but not intentionally. I think it would be a great idea to start a cracking support group/club because seeing people with the same condition as me is definitely very helpful. Cracking is very bad. You make the muscles in your neck work very hard to keep your neck stabilized after cracking.

This is how it looks. Crack Ligaments stretch Muscles tighten Crack and so on. It's a vicious circle which will end up with hypermobility. I've been cracking all my joints for about four years and still do, but with as much caution as possible. One day I attempted to crack my neck and poof! I felt i could not move my head either left or right without severe pain. I was terrified!

I was in bed for week before my muscles has repaired and relaxed. It's not a nice experience and I don't advise anyone to.

I have been cracking my neck about four to eight times per day since I was 11 years old. I have big problems with my neck. It's very stiff and when I look to my side I rotate my whole body instead of just my head. I have much pain in the top of my neck because I am sleeping with my head totally wrong, with the nose pointing right up. I have earlier asked both my chiropractor and my doctor if it's dangerous, but I haven't got any no, just 'oh can you do that?' , so I thought it was okay.

If I don't do it at least three times a day, I get very. Very stiff, and feel weird, and sometimes if I forget to crack my neck, I get a kink and need help from my chiropractor. My body is probably already destroyed since I started cracking my neck so young.

By the way, I am dizzy all the time. I can't exercise or anything because of that. At school I can't join the gym and I haven't for a year. I can't even walk to the bus in the morning because I am so dizzy.

I can't be around many people or light or colours because I get so dizzy. I am only seventeen. Don't crack anymore! Yea it might feel good at 1st but then you'll always need to crack again just to feel that temporary relief. And after a while, you won't feel the need to do it anymore.

I've been cracking almost every crackable place you can imagine and my cartilage has become crap. It really freaking hurts! If you're wondering why yours doesn't hurt then it might be because I've been cracking for a really long time, which means my cartilage has already been ruined while yours is on the way. Also, my bones stick out a lot now. I crack most of the joints in my body. Sometimes it cracks without my initiation. But, I feel good.

Neck cracking happens whenever I remove my helmet after a ride. If I try to avoid it I feel some kind of uneasiness and Uncomfortable. Most of my friends are surprised to see me cracking various joints, and I wonder, is it not applicable to everyone. How come two guys do same kind of work at same time and have different after effects on their body? Well as long it does not cause any vein rupture it's safe. But I feel this varies according to individuals.

I started cracking my neck, back, and knuckles just a few months ago and now it feels like I can't stop. My neck starts to get really stiff when I don't crack it.

I wish I could stop because I'm afraid it could terribly damage my joints. I got really worried the other day about it because the cracking got louder and I'm doing it more frequently - a lot of times a day. Some people say that it doesn't cause arthritis, but others say that it does and I don't know which one to believe. I just wish I could stop.

Does anyone know a way to prevent this? If you do, I really need it! Everybody read this unless you want to suffer like I do.

I am 20 years old and I started cracking my neck when I was about 10. I cracked it every day three times a day around three actual clicks per day until I was around 18. That's about 80,000 in eight years.

By then, I couldn't even put my head on my pillow without being in serious pain. I would go to sleep in agony and wake up in agony every day and pain tablets would do nothing. I knew I had to stop doing it. I stopped for around three months and my neck got so much better, then like an idiot, I started doing it again. And after about a week, I was in intense pain again so I had to stop but I was too late. My neck started cracking on its own when I would move, then my upper spine then rapidly down into my lower spine it would crack constantly every time I moved, even when I breathed. After a few days my back was cracking 100-200 times a day on its own and after a few weeks the muscles in my back were destroyed.

I developed a disease called neuropathic pain and I would get frightening chronic pain and massive shooting pains and intense spasms. I would wake up in the morning and I couldn't move. I would have to roll out of bed and make my way to the fire to put heat on my back. If ever I started shivering, all my muscles in my body would instantly seize up and I couldn't move.

In the end, all the medical world offered me was counseling to help deal with the pain. I just laughed and went home.

Luckily, I have a strong body and I am now a lot better through doing my exercise from physio. My spine still cracks like 10-20 times a day every day and I get the chronic pain a lot.

If I could describe the chronic pain. For example, if someone in my house shuts a door too hard, it feels like I've just been slapped on the head because my nerves were so hammered because your nervous system is connected to your brain down through your spine. Also, I would get this very sharp, stabbing pain in all my joints. It would hit me for like 10 seconds to the point of a panic attack then go for 10 seconds then hit me even harder.

If you ask me, it's worse than cancer because I don't know how I was still alive. I wanted to die. I was putt on to diazepam and I had really bad side effects. I was hallucinating in my sleep. I woke up like 10 times in a night and one minute I'd be awake and my mum would ask me a question and I'd turn around and she wasn't there and at that point I'd wake up (freaky). I was so scared and wound up I would punch myself in the face as hard as I could to calm myself down. I think I am very lucky to be alive so do not crack your neck and if you think you can't, just think one day you will have to and you might end up like me.

If anyone wants to say anything or if anyone can help me, I would very grateful. Thanks, dave. I can get you to stop cracking your neck by your or chiro.

I will send you a picture of my neck MRI. I had severe neck pain after seeing a chiro and he said 'oh, that happens sometimes', then did the whole electricity, massage, ultrasound, whatever. Turns out, two discs were herniated. I cannot pin it on him, but I had to have surgery a year later because I started dropping things. So, having had c4/5, 5/6 fused, after time, c3/4 and c6/7 wear out because they are doing all the work that 456 were doing. I after 13 years, just had c3 fused, so in a sense, my neck is fused. Percent certain it is from a chiro adjustment.

Also, if they say you have a subluxation, run. A subluxation is an orthopedic or neurosurgical emergency. Your spinal cord is about to be if it hasn't already, pressed very hard on by a vertebrae that has come out of place for some reason, usually trauma. People do not walk around with 'subluxations'. Look it up and see. These guys are dangerous, doing these violent adjustments on people's necks. I should have not listened to him and when I was in so much pain after his 'adjustment', I should have gone to the ER.

Then I could have sued him for making my life one of spinal surgery and potent narcotics to keep it in check. I have been disabled for 18 years, and I am not 50. Do.not. crack your neck.

Cracking joints like knuckles is harmless. I am talking about the violent cranking of the head to the side that chiros do.

I see people do it on their own. They are playing with fire!

I crack my fingers in two places, toes, ankles, knees, hips, shoulders, elbows, wrists, back, and neck. The worst is my neck. I have got so used to cracking it all the time that now I cannot stop. It makes a grinding sound when it's about to crack and if I try not to crack it, it will be quite painful and stiff. And sometimes one slight movement and it will crack automatically.

I really need to stop as I don't want it to become a problem in the future. I have a terrible fear of getting arthritis when I am older. I am 16 and have been cracking my joints since I was 10.

Anyone know if I will develop it and how to stop it? I am 15 and have been cracking my knuckles, back, neck, ankles and toes since i was maybe 8 or 9. I have bad lower back problems, from bad posture. The only way for me to relieve the pressure is to crack it. Same with my knuckles. I've jammed almost all of my fingers, so now if i don't crack them they get stiff and i can't move them. Same with my ankle.

I sprained it in sports, but it feels good to relieve the pressure. I have been doing this for six or seven years and have never had any issues with my joints.

I crack many body parts multiple times a day. I take Tae Kwon Do classes where we crack our backs.

I've been cracking my knuckles ever since I was 12 (I'm almost 17 now) and have not had any complications yet. It feels great after cracking, but I'm worried that I'll develop certain complications later on in life. I feel the need to stop, yet I can't help it because it has become a such an involuntary action.

If you don't crack, I don't advise you start, and if you do, at least take it easy on yourself. I have been a chronic joint cracker since before I can remember. I may be young but I know how it's done.

I can crack nearly every joint in my body and it feels fantastic when I do; it relieves pain and gives pleasure. The only problem with this is that it only relieves pain for a while, today I am in agony because I am cracking my neck too much. I find cracking my fingers, toes, wrists, ankles, knees, elbows and hips do not give pain, but after cracking my neck and back I become in serious pain after about five minutes. To all of you who are also chronic neck and back crackers, stop while you can.

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Well, it sounds to me like some people need to crack their bones, and it feels more comfortable when they do. I have always been a popper from as far back as I can remember, first knuckles, (which I don't feel the habit to crack anymore - don't know why) but now I am regularly in need of a back crack throughout the day. I do have a misalignment due to my right hip being slightly lower than the other, which I believe comes from a weak arch in my right foot. This then leads to a slight scoliosis in the middle of my back just below my shoulder blades, and subsequently my neck is giving me quite a bit of.

I’ve been doing it too long. I didn’t know so many people have the same problem., I do it from built up tension. I’m sorry to say that I can crack every joint in my body all alone with no help. I’m 42 now and I’ve been cracking my neck, back, fingers and toes, knees and elbows on a daily basis for 30 years and I can feel something going on with my neck now. I’m trying to quit and it’s very hard, but I’m going to keep trying.

My best advice is don’t go on with it for too long if you’re young. You will thank yourself later.

I've been in numerous accidents. I've had very bad whiplash, and have dealt with major pain and stress for the last eight years for a number of different reasons.

As a heads-up for any other chronic neck cracker, I believe some of this is addiction. I crack my neck almost every day as it gets really painful without it, but I also noticed sometimes if I forced myself to stop I seemed to stop needing it and the pain or discomfort subsided. On the other hand the day after drinking too much or when i really stress my body out I get crazy pain in my back and neck. Then a day or two later, when I'm feeling rested and recharged my neck pops so loud with this kind of echo sound and it feels so good all this relief at once. Which makes me think it may be something I just have to deal with because of prior injury.

In the end though I'm going to really pay attention now and stop cracking the joints to see if I can avoid it all together. Oh and I'd say a visit to the chiropractor is long overdue as I've never been to one. Cracking your joints on your fingers and toes is perfectly fine, it doesn't lead to arthritis or damage of your joints. However cracking your neck or your back, can only be done without any additional pressure.

If you are going to crack your neck do it by tilting your head but.do not& use your hand to crack it, this leads to hypermobility. Chiropractic is something completely separate to cracking and popping, an adjustment is an adjustment and it may or may not include any cracks or pops. However one thing to keep in mind, if you believe that cracking your joints is going to cause you to get a disease or symptom, your body will accommodate the result on.

To be quite honest, I am an intense joint cracker, because I am always cracking my joints all over my body. I can crack the three levels of my fingers, my toes, my neck, my back time after time, my knees, also time after time, and many other joints. I just cannot quit, because I'd feel under too much pressure if I stopped cracking my joints. I am very worried about my future, and I cannot seem to stop cracking. My neck feels under pain all the time. I do not have to use fingers to crack it, I just push it in and then out, and I hear a popping noise, which gives me a release for two seconds or so. I just want to stop doing all of this cracking.

Does anybody have a good method of stopping it? I am a 30-year-old woman and i have been cracking my neck, back and shoulders since i had my severe car accident at age 16 years. After i was in the accident the insurance company told me to go to Chiro-Med. This was the worst mistake i had ever made. I believe it was because i went to the Chiropractor and he started the cracking of my neck, back and shoulders is why i feel the need to do it now. I believe if it had never been done i would not have had to continue this for 14 years.

Take my advice or leave it. Chriopractors are bad for your bones.

I am 33 years old. I have a very stiff back. Not even a chiropractor can crack my upper, middle, or lower back. When I was 18, I was in a car accident.

Someone rear-ended my car while I was at a stop light. They were traveling 50 mph.

Needless to say, it was an intense accident. I was luckily at the time driving a commercial 10 passenger van. The van was totaled and I was pushed into the intersection.

My rear view mirror flew and broke one of the back windows on the van. Luckily again, I was wearing my seat beat. I had no major injuries because of the seat belt except for I suffered severe whiplash. Caused the ligaments in my neck to be stretched beyond repair.

I now suffer from chronic neck pain caused by my muscles over exerting themselves in my neck, middle spine, and shoulders. I feel intense pressure to crack my back at times but like I said not even a chiropractor could crack it. However, when they crack my neck (since the ligaments have been already damaged) I feel absolute relief and pressure for about 2 days. Then, the pain and stiffness returns. In my personal opinion, these bubble releases in my neck bones are what gives me relief. They must somehow build up and overpressure the tissues around my damaged neck tendons. Then the cracking releases them, it takes awhile for the pressure to build back up.

Anyone who.knows. what they are talking about, as written above, the constant 'cracking' or 'popping' of the back, or other joints can lead to hypermobility, the losening of ligaments and pain.

I was in a car accident and now have a bulging disk. They didn't MRI me immediately thinking the pain would go away.

I was 'adjusted' and 'cracked' by a physical therapist. Now my back hurts all the time and pops regularly, but I didn't even go that often, no more than 2 times a week. Could this be hypermobility?

Or just me thinking too much and not understanding that I was indeed in an accident? Please someone educated give me your best shot.

Back Pain Sufferer, P.S what could and should I do? As of now, I'm just waiting for a recent round of facet shots to work, so far they have not.