Posts made by Blase_Cracke

Sometimes it can be a bit sweeter when you have to work for it. I used to have the greatest times with my elbow sand knees because I would wake up and pop joints that had been waiting for about 8 hours.

I've noticed that some of my needs to crack my joints lessen as I continue to pop and crack. I first had a problem where I would rotate my arms every morning for a GREAT pop of my elbows… that soon left and I started needing to pop my knees in the morning this is gone.

Has anyone else seen this happen, I'll keep you updated if I lose the need to pop anything else.

As an aside I was popping my knees (don't ask) in my mom's car while my dad was driving on the interstate and knocked the drive shift thingy into neutral… I quickly grabbed it in put it back in drive. Additionally I was popping my neck while my dad was driving my grandma's car and I hit a button that changed the speed from mph to kph. We were pretty scared until we got it back to mph.

My brother thinks I'm really weird, he says nothing really pops, and when it does it hurts. Mostly it's my knuckles and neck in public, it gets to the point where I'll be talking to someone and have to say "hold on," then pop my neck several times and resume the conversation.

Everything but 4. I guess that leave me with a 7–the number of perfection.

I meet with one once a month, he gets my upper back and neck, and it feels really good for the rest of the day… although I do have to continue popping it that day. I find that if I don't see my chiro in awhile, popping my next starts to hurt a bit, and I'm not as successful at it.

Possibly, I know I've pretty much eliminated my ability to pop my knee in the morning by sleeping with a pillow between my legs. I think I was popping my knee back in place when I was getting up in the morning. It used to be a loud crack, now it has lessened, and I crack my knees in different ways.

I'm not sure. I get a lot of exercise but because of my eating my over weight. Of course, my cracking problems seem to hinder in some ways my ability to exercise.

Thanks, I think I crack more while I'm here because I'm thinking about it. Well, I think I better go to bed. It IS 4:00 am.

I have a lot of trouble with reading and finding a comfortable position.

In bed: I'll start with my legs crossed looking down, then sprawled out belly down looking toward the book, finally I'll end up laying back and reading the book while holding it up above me.

In a chair: I have to constantly pop my knees as I use them to hold the book up, if I use a footstool my legs fall asleep.

On a sofa, pretty much the problems of a chair + bed + coffee table is too low to read a book off of. All I have to say is stick to it, I will often crack my next every 3-5 pages, and I read pretty quickly. I also have a problem with slouching–which makes me crack my back a lot, while not slouching causes back pain.

@bod8:

do your big toes crack involuntarily?

Yes, when I walk for long distances mostly (However it does happen just walking around the house) and don't pay attention to my walking I'll put more pressure on my big toes than the rest of my foot. My big toes will then start to feel uncomfortable and either I'll take my feet out and crack them (by pushing them against the ground or my shoes) or it will eventually crack on its own (painfully). Moreover I'll have an involuntary reaction where I'll curl all my toes and they'll all crack, although not in the way I need them to though to relieve the uncomfortable feeling they have.

@bod8:

Blase_cracke - when you talk about rotating hips…

can you feel a crack both when you crack clockwise and counter - clockwise?
because when i go counter clockwise i feel nothing, but when i go clockwise i feel a massive crack!

PS. another involuntary reaction - as i typed this message i felt a sort of pain in my nerve on the right side of my neck.

Both ways, I get a stronger crack when I rotate counter clockwise however. The biggest problem for me is that I feel I need to widen the circle to crack the very lower back, which annoys me in its elusiveness. I end up about falling over trying to force my hip forward enough to crack it. Back to trying to crack it!

@bod8:

hmm, i'm not too sure.
i don't get the eye problem, but from what you've said, i think i get exactly the same thing when looking to the right (when i walk or sit).
nice to know someone else has this problem!

I'm afraid that when I start driving it may happen to me at some point when it would really matter, but last time I was switching classes and I almost collapsed in the middle of the hallway. So the only thing I lost was pride.

So here's the story: my biggest problem with cracking is my neck… I feel pain if I don't pop it every so often and it starts hurting during Tae Kwon Do class to the point I almost want to stop. I pop my next, and I move on. However, every so often (6 months to a year) for the last 7 years at least... I will look to the left when walking etc. and I will feel a sharp pain and temporally lose my vision in my left eye. Two years ago this happened, except the pain was more powerful than before and I lost vision in both my eyes for about 3 minutes.

I was told that I am probably just pinching a nerve, but does this fit the description, and if so, what can I do about it? I am already seeing a chiropractor.

@bod8:

Let's imagine the right foot.

Big toe is 1, the next is 2, then 3,4,5.

Which of yours clicks?

Unfortunately for me its 1,2,3,4, and 5!!!
1, my big toe, is the worst, i don't know many other people with this though apart from pompeylad, but i don't think he's posted on this forum for ages :?

All of them, I can pop them by pulling, pushing them against something, and it often leads to the popping of the bones I can't remember the names of. Oh well… I can also pop my toes by twisting them back and forth.

@bod8:

Because mine comprises of so many involuntary cracks, I can't really post a routine other than I crack a lot after I wake in the morning.

How about you guys?

I wake up and kick twice, popping both knees, then I pop my back and waist by bending back and rotating my waist. Then I just have many involuntary cracks, and other cracking fun which last all day and into the night when I crack my toes against my bed posts while I try to sleep.

I'm new here, I thought I'd join because of my problem with cracking. I assume I'm a bit late in pointing out we're all "crack-addicts." I'm a High School student from the US, and I've been dealing with cracking for a while.

Here's a list:
Neck: Several ways
Back: Several ways
Jaw (2 ways)
wrist
fingers (4 ways for each) + thumbs (2 ways for each)
knees (3 ways)
Hips: Several ways
Toes: (2 ways)
ankles: (5 ways)
Elbows: (4 ways)
Sternum
Metacarpals
Proximal Phalange (of the foot)
Metatarsus
I can also pop my left ear 0_o

So greetings…