There are lotta missing aswers . For experts like me , the ultimate feeling is crack your sacrum , I crack it about 5 times per day . Also low back vertebras is amazing . Pelvis and hips do they part too . The theory is simple, the bigger the joint, the more endorphim .

I think you're wrong, there are no joints in the ribs, neither synovial fluid . That sounds come from your middle al low spine

Can't u do the 4) , even bendind the wrist?

Hi, this's the test (and an article):

http://www.arc.org.uk/about_arth/booklets/6019/6019.htm#top

I think that most of us, general joint-crackers,or have natural loose joints or loose joints due years of cracking .

I can do the 4) and 5), and a light 3) .

By the way. The natural Pelvis one-big-crack is the most annoying one, i feel it's gonna pop out .

I didn't fully grasp how you crack your elbows. Do you just stretch the arm and then hit some surface like a desk with your palm?

I just land a light right hand to the "air" (just extend the arm) , and it makes the snapping sound, I'm almost sure it is the BICEP Tendon (the sounds come from there), but no pain at all.

How do you know your joint cracks are distinctivly different from the cracks reported by most of us here?

Yes, it is. This is the crack sound http://www2.b3ta.com/crackmyknuckles/
and mines normal sound are lower, like tendons touching the joint bone

Can you manually crack your knuckles? Do these cracks sound and feel much different from your "standard" cracks?

Yes, when i was teen, my hand crack more strong, now my joints are like more loose, they crack but also they make tendons sounds.

Do you experience any swelling or inflammation of the tissue surrounding the joints?

When I crack my hand several times, it hurts a little (like swelling) and I feel more and more desire to crack it again, but my ligaments get a little hurt after 10-cracks consecutive.

JointCracker did you read it?, I wait some answers plz ….

Maybe this matters:
I'm 23 years old male, 5'8" blocky (fat but muscular), I have "jumbo joints" )Knee Girth: 18,5" )Elbow Girth: 12" , big shoulder's joints, but normal Wrist and Ankle (7" and 10,5").

So, maybe the problem is not having large joints, since my ankle and wrist makes snapping sounds too and are not so large.

Sorry and thanks.

HI, new here :

ALL my joints make snapping/popping sounds , ALL THE TIME, i.e Lateral Raise arms, the shoulders joints makes two snapping sounds in each single motion, it's not GAS/Synovial bubles, If I raise the arm, it sounds, I aint gotta wait, it is continuously snapping. No pain at all, but I can feel something moving and making the sound (dont know if it is my joint, ,tendons or ligaments).

My knees makes snapping sound at walk (sometimes it gets stiff for a second and makes the snapping sound, no pain at all)
If I land a light straight right/left hand my elbows snaps twice.
If I land a HARD straight right/left hand, my elbows snaps very strong twice.
Even my fingers after crack them, they do snapping sounds (hand and toe)
Also ALL my joint naturally CRACKS (not snapping sound, like yours!) (synovial fluid), but then they makes my classics snappin sounds all the time I move my joints.