Does stretching your toes and neck help lessen cracking?
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I think that a moderate amount of cracking is okay. If your neck or spine or whatever cracks while you are doing stretches that say, a physical therapist would recommend, I'd say its unavoidable. One for the neck that I like is putting your palm against the side of your head and then pushing against it (with your head). Always good for a couple healthy cracks a day. i think you get into trouble when you start really wrenching things just to get that unattainable pop or release.
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yeah you have to have a limit, the neck is pretty fragile or so i'm told :?
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Yeah i always see people w Fragile necks walking around. lol
Every time you do an action to get a crack , you are actually Stretching.
If you stretch your neck , slowly and calm , you are reducing your chance of straining you neck muscles.
Be 'in your body'
When you thrust your neck around to get cracks you may strain a muscle, but it would be Minor.
Neck pain is part of life, because the neck is in such constant use, it is very common, cracker or not to experience neck pain from time to time.
Chronic/constant neck pain is a condition. Usually associated w an injury.i believe stretching your neck is necessary and healthy, a tight or stiff neck is prone to injury or severe strain. like bruising, swelling and loss of mobilization.
Mellow neck stretch , that may induce cracking:
Take a long, slow ,deep breath in, on the exhale
Bring L ear to L shoulder slowly
bring the L hand on the top of the head, fingers close to R ear
take another deep breath and on the exhale stretch further using the weight of your hand to GENTLY pull you further.
Know your limit and stop in your comfort zone.
Stay for a few breaths, and relax, then do the other sideThis is simple Lateral Flexion, the neck is designed to do this action/stretch.
Much better than just whipping your neck around to get cracks. :idea: -
Works a treat! Thanks! A few nice cracks. That's the first time my neck has gone!
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Sweet
mellow, gentle stretches reduce chance of neck pain
from cracking anyway
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you mean like looking around in a circle, that sort of stretch?
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Well i referred (yes at 14 years old) a man to go to his GP with, i presumed hypermobility in his neck - and was right, to get neck excercises and he did and i was right, however the neck strengthening excercises, when i tried to do one, makes my neck do one of those small cracks.
Said ^^^^ many a time lol
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you should become a doc, you've obviously got some talent there
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Nah, i learnt that on internet and MC just says that is wrong.
However i am not interested in that stuff.
More in helping people - like police, army - things like that.
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cool
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actually blaze because of you I read about hypermobility and hypermobility syndrome on wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermobility
the latter being a disorder
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and….
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"Some people have hypermobility with no other symptoms or medical conditions. However, people with hypermobility syndrome may experience many difficulties. "
so hypermobility is perfectly normal
hypermobility SYNDROME is a disorder, w a list of potential problemsNeither mention Cracking joints being associated to them.
Nor weak tendons or ligament springs.but it's relative and interesting info
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Of course it won't have about jointcracking relation on there as the person who wrote it may not know about this and it isn't well known and there are those who think it isn't related.
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yeah i read online that soaking toes in hot water is supposed to relieve inflammation of tendons. i also read that ice packs do the same..
bit weird that hot and cold do the same thing isn't it?
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hot and cold water.
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"Some people have hypermobility with no other symptoms or medical conditions. However, people with hypermobility syndrome may experience many difficulties. "
so hypermobility is perfectly normal
hypermobility SYNDROME is a disorder, w a list of potential problemsNeither mention Cracking joints being associated to them.
Nor weak tendons or ligament springs.but it's relative and interesting info
It's still the most plausible explanation to me. Of course I might be on the wrong path here.
I would love to hear your idea why some people feel stronger urges to crack their joints than others. And why that urge subsidizes when said person refrains from giving in for a while? -
a friend of mine cracks his neck like crazy! i do crack my toes out of habit but i'm a bit hesitant with the neck. as long as it doesnt hurt, there's nothing to worry about i suppose.
