Hey, I wanted to know how bad can cracking your neck, nuckles and feet can actually get. I crack all them so much I barley know if I do it when I do it. I want to stop . How much damage can you acctually cause?

I don't know, I crack my neck all the time. Here's a fun article to read about cracking knuckles.
It basically says it's not good to move stuff out of place, but it shouldn't severely hurt your hand, just minor stuff you probably won't notice. Cracking your neck will probably result in visiting a chiropractor and getting him to work on it. I'll see you there! Neither one is good for you, but they aren't incredibly serious.

I having heard of cracking your feet, it sounds painful

This post has been edited by husker: Jun 10 2007, 08:15 PM

I've heard it can give you arthritis if you do it too much. And I've also heard that the cracking noise is actually popping air bubbles. I don't know, I'm no Med student, but if I were you I wouldn't do it so much. I only do it when it really gets to bothering me... cause I don't want arthritis!

Well if you a professional back cracker then you would know how much pressure you would have to put on a person without breaking something, but I would say worse case scenario would be the arthritis Smack mention. But I usually crack my back and neck sometimes and I would make the occasional trip to the Chrio to get a full body crack and man does that feel good after she is done with it. My body feels like jello after a 30 minute session and that I feel like I am at peace with the world .

I don't really crack my neck or whatever part of my body except for my fingers 'cause I never knew those areas could be cracked! I thought it was just some crap movies showed to make the actor look more villain-ish.

But I read both those articles, good thing that cracking my fingers won't cause me arthritis, I only do it when tension has gripped too much over my fingers, so I guess I am putting them back to place after they've been slightly out of it after hours of work? If so then there is problem, but I seriously don't want to put them out of place now, do I?

And as the article mentioned, cracking/popping noise are air bubbles, of carbon dioxide and nitrogen.

i have heard that cracking you nuckles can lad to pain down the road but i don't believe it be cause i know people htat have been doin it all ther life and theirs are fine. i know for sure that it makes you nuckles bigger. ok so i don't know for sure but i think it is happening to me. i have know girls that will pick up the habit of popping their fingers and there nuckles seem bigger than usuall. i don't know it could be false. popping you neck and back in the long run can not be good. it wears on your back and can lead to back problems but not bad. try to reframe from doing it. streching the musle is the best bet. if you back hands head whatever hurt just stretch them out, the muscles that is.

it's not good for you, especially if you crack your neck. it would have complications later on. if you crack your neck, the muscles that support the neck stiffens and it won't be able to support your neck properly. when you crack your neck, you feel satisfaction and ease but this is just temporary as later you'll feel the urge of cracking your neck again and again. one way of preventing this from happening is by doing neck exercises to strengthen your neck muscles. stopping yourself from cracking your neck is not that very hard. you just have to control yourself when you feel that your neck is aching. do your neck exercise and you'll feel a lot better. you'll later feel that your neck doesn't always hurt anymore. moreover, you also have to maintain a proper posture when walking, sitting and sleeping to lessen the problems that you would encounter in the future.

There is no scientific proof this is bad. This is an old wives tale. This is so stupid and it's even shown at this little kids site: http://www.kidzworld.com/article/1438-crac...own-on-knuckles I dont know where people get their info, but they must just not. This has been talked about so long and i wish people would give up on it. they have done scientific studies that it doesn't lead to anything but nothing about how it does.



So dont bend it where it kills you to do it and your good to go.

Now are we going to talk about getting in the water too quick gives you cramps?