Posts made by Akkenru

Well, think about it guys…what part of you has the most bones?

Your hands and feet, they have over 100 bones in them collectively...bones meet at joints. There are 16 very movable joints in the hand, including the wrist...there are a few others that move very slightly, the feet are similar, with 14 very movable joints and a few that move slightly...add that up and that's 60 really movable joints.

There are only 23 joints in the spinal column if you discount fused vertebrae. The ribs (of which you have 24), make 24 joints with the spinal column and attach to the sternum with long pieces of cartilage which I wouldn't call joints myself, but if you want...there's about 10 of them, 2 of which are a massive array of cojoined cartilage on each side.

Starting from the top,

One on each side of my jaw

Five on each side of my neck

Three in each shoulder

One on each side around the clavicle area

Eight on each side of my thoracic vertebrae

One in each elbow, but for some reason, my left can do two more from torsional manipulation

One in each wrist

Four in each thumb

Four in each forefinger

Five in each middle and ring finger

Six in each pinky

Eight on each side of my lumber vertebrae

Two in each hip

A weird one next, each hamstring cracks…not a joint, but certainly a nice crack.

One in each knee

Three in each ankle

One in the joint in the arch of each foot

Three in each big toe

Three in each of the next two toes

Two in each of the next toes

and finally, one in each pinky toe

I think that's a total of 150 cracks or 152 if you include the strange hamstring ones.

Obviously they have different refractory periods so some I do several times an hour while others just a couple of times a day, but they all feel great and I'd be happy to offer tips to anyone wishing to adopt any of these to their routine.

The people who don't crack just don't understand how important cracking is to the feeling of wellbeing in someone who does crack, every crack counts in a different way.