Posts made by conscentity

I'm glad to see you're back! Yay! I like reading and participating in this community and was worried you had gone for good.

Hi Camille,

I have do similar work and have been doing for over 20 years. I have found that adding some weight training has helped a lot with any back pain or soreness. Along with exercising other parts of my body, I do these to strengthen my back:

https://exrx.net/WeightExercises/GluteusMaximus/BBDeadlift (Don't go heavy at first)
https://exrx.net/WeightExercises/BackGeneral/DBBentOverRow
https://exrx.net/WeightExercises/LatissimusDorsi/BWPullup
https://exrx.net/WeightExercises/E***torSpinae/WtBackExtension

and some abominal work like crunches.

I have found that as my body strengthened, my posture and pain and soreness improved.

Along with this some active exercising like walking, jogging or biking also helps.

Some stretches that may help:

https://exrx.net/Stretches/E***torSpinae/Lying
https://exrx.net/Stretches/RectusAbdominis/Kneeling
https://exrx.net/Stretches/E***torSpinae/Cat

Some supplements that may help are Taurine, Vitamin C, Vitamn D3 and Glucosamine W/Tumeric.

Hopefully, this helps give you some ideas. I'm sure there are others on here that have good ideas also.

Here's a link to an image to the spine:

http://www.biokineticspt.com/blog/uncategorized/neck-pain-and-the-thoracic-spine.html

I get some good ones in my back around the thoracic area when I stretch in the morning.

Hi Dr. Wander! Welcome. I'm a long time reader of this forum, but haven't posted in a while. I'll start with a question. This has been discussed before, but I don't recall ever having a Dr. of Chiropractic here before. About once a day for as long as I can remember, I notice that if I stretch my arms and shoulders towards the middle of my back, my sternum cracks. It feels good, but am wondering if that is something to be concerned about?

Thanks You.

Hi all! It's been a while since I last posted. Lately, as I have been going to the gym, I've noticed that both my shoulders click when doing shoulder presses:

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/DeltoidAnterior/LVShoulderPressH.html

It happens on the way down when I return to the starting position. There is a click and a slight hint of pain in both shoulders.

I have been trying to strengthen my internal shoulder muscles by doing external and internal rotations:

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/Infraspinatus/CBStandingExternalRotation.html

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/Subscapularis/CBStandingInternalRotation.html

But I haven't been at it long enough to really, notice if that helps with the clicking.

Any of you have this happen? If so, have you found anything that helps?

Having a migraine after an adjustment or cracking the atlas sounds scary. Maybe, it's letting the signals through the nervous system through that were restricted before the adjustment and it's causes the headache? I had a friend who would have headaches after getting his neck adjusted by the chiropractor afterwards. You may want to consult a doctor about that to make sure you aren't doing any damage when cracking. I don't know if other's can do it. I'm sure there are some out there who can.

The first vertebrae below your skull is the Atlas. I can't crack it myself, but there is a treatment I posted about, a while ago, that chiropractors do called Atlas Orthogonal that's supposed to adjust it:

http://www.jointcrackers.com/ftopict-610.html

Does anyone else get this pop in your chest?

Yes. I can crack it by doing a reverse butter fly motion stretch. That's a nice one. I've never been able to crack my sacrum. Although, I've never really made an effort to crack it.

My neck pops occasionally, when I stretch it. It feels nice when it does, but I don't try cracking it on purpose.

ately, i'm digging the sternum crack. such a faint, delicate pop. i can usually do this by pulling both shoulders back, like i'm trying to get my shoulder blades to touch behind my back. this causes my chest to open up a bit and then.. *pop! NOTE - one of the first times i got my sternum to crack, it ended up hurting pretty badly for several minutes. never happened again, but i get worried…

I pop my sternum similarly. That's one of my favorites to crack!

I find that my joints are more in the mood to crack after my muscles have warmed up a bit. Like after soaking in a hot bath.

Was at the gym and was working on my obliques with the twist machine:

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/Obliques/LVTwistLower.html

With one of the twists, my back cracked from bottom up! Ahhhh!

I've soaked in an epsom salt bath before for some sore muscles in my legs. It helped the soreness and felt nice. Once I drank water mixed with epsom salt as a laxative. That worked really well. It tastes nasty though. It's very cheap and is usually found near the home enema kits.

Nice to see you back! I was just curious and wanted to make sure you hadn't died or anything.

…interesting. Looks safer than the neck twisting most chiropractors do. Here's a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9wziwsu6QQ&feature=related

Is JointCracker still around or is this site on auto-pilot?

Any of you notice that as you get older, new joints start cracking and older cracking joints crack more? It seems to me that something cracks every time I stretch now days. My neck rarely cracked, but it seems like it's at least once a day now. Maybe my ligaments are getting looser or weaker as I age? Also, the endorphin rush isn't as nice as it used to be when cracking my back. Maybe, I'm just addicted to endorphins and my body is cracking more to just stay at a normal state, kinda like meth addiction. :lol:

@dj100:

@conscentity:

@Sieveboy:

I taught my 8 year old daughter to crack her toes and fingers, now she does the fingers all the time. She also twists to crack her back and she goes off like a cross between firecrackers and a zipper unzipping. Most amazing sound I've ever heard, you can hear the joints all the way up her vertebrae from coccyx to neck - amazing.

Anyone heard any concerns with children cracking?

Thanks

My father was cracking my knuckles at church as far back as I could remember. I've continued the cracking myself as I got older and still do to this day. I don't think I've had any side effects from it after almost 25 years.

why did he crack them at church?!

Because it was something to do to help pass the time during the sermons. Church can be extremely boring.

@Sieveboy:

I taught my 8 year old daughter to crack her toes and fingers, now she does the fingers all the time. She also twists to crack her back and she goes off like a cross between firecrackers and a zipper unzipping. Most amazing sound I've ever heard, you can hear the joints all the way up her vertebrae from coccyx to neck - amazing.

Anyone heard any concerns with children cracking?

Thanks

My father was cracking my knuckles at church as far back as I could remember. I've continued the cracking myself as I got older and still do to this day. I don't think I've had any side effects from it after almost 25 years.