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cracking bones

  • 17-06-2006 3:40pm
    #1
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I noticed a while back that my feet/lower leg (in particular my left ankle) click/cracked an awful lot
    I've started taking fish oils to try and help it, and am cutting down on my cafeine intake and upping my calcium in take (which was high and low respectively)
    So what else can I do to help this, exercising (what kind), some kind of daily routine etc??
    It's at the point where my left ankle and even some toes seem to constantly need to click, and it's driving me up the wall.

    Any other vitamins or suppliments I should look into taking??


Comments

  • #2
    DubNside
    Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭DubNside


    Try Glucosamine m8, thats the only other thing i could think of that might help.
    Although maybe you should get it checked out if its always a specific joint or area that clicks, you may have a slight sprain.

    Im no medical expert but i believe clicking in the joints is caused by air in the joints?


  • #3
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    Yeah, I was thinking of going for a check up because it's a specific area and constant (not painful, just annoying and sometimes a little bit uncomfortable)

    Thanks for the suggestion, will check that out too.


  • #4
    poobum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 592 ✭✭✭poobum


    it can also be due to ur bines being out of alignment...my knee caps are kinda out so now if i bend them fully they crack...but im able to se them grand and it dosent hurt! just whatever way the bones are rubbing off eachother causes a crack....or according to my physio anyway...


  • #5
    bluemoon21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭bluemoon21


    My knees like to crack as well, and my phisio says to stretch them daily to strengthen them up.


  • #6
    Rogueish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 781 ✭✭✭Rogueish


    Get it checked out by a physiotherapist/sports rehabilitator/athletic trainer, as it may be something as simple as you just being loose ligamented. That you are genetically made up that your ligamnets a slightly longer than a 'normal' persons. This cannnot be fixed or tightened (unless you have surgery) but you can strengthen the muscles around the joint to give it more stability and less 'click'.

    Supplements will not stop the clicking, as the clicking is of a mechanical nature and supplements will not have an effect on it. The supplements work to slow down the degeneration of the joint. But essentially if it is not causing you any pain it is not something to overly worry about.


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