Cracking joints

mikemac

Do you have this? Or maybe your co workers or people around you annoy you with this.

Lad in the office manages to crack his knuckes one by one, makes me shudder, I don't listening to it

Having said that, when I bend down to pick up a pen my knees crack loudly, I'm very self conscious over it.
It's a curse though that story I read about cracking joints leading to arthritis seems to be a myth.

I won't call it a strange affliction as it's common, can you do it?

WindSock

Love doing it, it's great craic. Mildly satisfying.

petes

feelingstressed wrote: »

It's a curse though that story I read about cracking joints leading to arthritis seems to be a myth.

It is a myth.

aDeener

i hate when my joints crack, ruins a good smoke :pac:

Daisy Steiner

A mixture of white widow and bubblegum





wait . . . . what?

BluesBerry

I love cracking my knuckles sometimes I have a tension in my knuckles that I need to crack them to relieve it

I can make my ankles crack and when I bend down my knees crack

Dravokivich

Sometimes I can make my neck make cracking sounds....

Can always do it with my right ankle....

Elevator

I can crack the big toe on my right foot!!

petes

How many people started cracking their knuckles/ankles/whatever after reading the opening post?

Sanjuro

Crack my knuckles all the time. Drives my flatmate insane to the point she starts screaming when I do it. My ma's joints crack so much when she walks, she sounds like somebody walking across sheets of bubble wrap.

krudler

Cracking my knuckles gives me great relief, my knees crack when I've been sitting down for long periods or driving a lot. And yes its a myth cracking your knuckles gives you arthritis, you're not doing anything to your joints its the synovial fluid between the joints that makes the noise.

phill106

Crack my knuckles a fair bit. Sometimes need to crack my next too, by turning my head to nearly over my shoulder.
Can always crack my right shoulder too. Arms often crack when I am putting baby down in cot.
While cracking my knuckles is done the traditional way, I sometimes have to pull on my thumb to crack it that way too!

jokettle

My boyfriend cracks his knuckles, neck, back, ankle, shoulders.....eurgh! Makes me shudder. But I can crack my jaw in return

Dravokivich

Sanjuro wrote: »

Crack my knuckles all the time. Drives my flatmate insane to the point she starts screaming when I do it. My ma's joints crack so much when she walks, she sounds like somebody walking across sheets of bubble wrap.

Sorry about that...

Mr. Rager

Random, disgusting thought: imagine cracking your mickey :pac:

phill106

fjsanchez wrote: »

Random, disgusting thought: imagine cracking your mickey :pac:

No bone in your boner.....

Mr. Rager

phill106 wrote: »

No bone in your boner.....

Ssh...not everybody knows that

phill106

fjsanchez wrote: »

Ssh...not everybody knows that

Your ma and your missus does :P

Mr. Rager

phill106 wrote: »

Your ma and your missus does :P

.....so anyways, back to cracking joints..

KyussBishop

Yes, I have extremely crackly joints, most of my joints are like this I think; it's greatly satisfying cracking them

Had an Irish teacher in school who literally couldn't look at people cracking joints; she would freak out, flinching and would look away covering her eyes, shouting at them to stop; fun

AnonoBoy

I thought this was a thread about really really good pubs and we were going to have to discuss them in a weird mix of English and American slang.


This chap is bummed out.

Terry

I can crack the tips of my index fingers and my thumbs.

candy-gal1

lol When someone cracks their neck on both sides I always think their heads going to fall off or spin around :eek:

alwaysadub

Only thing i can crack is my right knee, and that's not on demand.
When i was in school,one of the lads used to crack my knuckles for me. Never figured out how to do it myself though. Wouldn't be bothered with doing it now anyway!

frankied1

OMG know i have desperate urge to crack my knuckles and it hurts. Used to do it all the time as a kid but stopped years ago coz my mother told me it causes arthritis thank god its a myth;)

Tefral

Cant crack my knuckles or anything like that.

However every once in a while my back would be sore, just lean over the back of a small chair and my spine cracks into place, instant relief..:D

frankied1

Terry wrote: »

I can crack the tips of my index fingers and my thumbs.

Euww

stupidusername

I don't crack my knuckles, would be way too afraid of breaking something, plus obviously don't need to, but my jaw cracks a lot, so does the base of my spine and my big toes.... don't know why. It's common apparently. My family constantly comments on the loudness of my jaw cracking when I'm eating. sometimes its very loud, other times only I can hear it. Mentioned it to the dentist the other day as he had taken an xray, but he said its fine as long as its not sore. so I shall continue annoying people with my crackin!

Brendog

I hate the sound of other people doing it..







But like everything else in the world, its seems better when I do it

BigBenRoeth

I crack me knuckles out of sheer habit now,can crack one of me ankles too

GLaDOS

I can get some serious noise out of cracking my neck, freaks people out

Sanjuro

Dravokivich wrote: »

Sorry about that...

Yeah, well, you couldda left a little more cash for the trouble, ffs.

-Trek-

Disappointed, thought the thread was about smoking...:(

But to stay on topic I think all my joints pop or crack at some point and I'm still a young lad (relatively speaking ).

mconigol

it's just nitrogen bubbles...no?

-Trek-

mconigol wrote: »

it's just nitrogen bubbles...no?

I think that's what a doc said to me once when I asked about it, wasn't paying full attention that day.

Bajingo

I just do it sub consciously. It is sick to do it when eating or something and I always find myself apologizing for it.

GLaDOS

mconigol wrote: »

it's just nitrogen bubbles...no?

It's gas build up as a result of synovial fluid which is rapidly collapsed, making the noise, composed of nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide.

Overheal

It's the Fluoride in the water. Weakens the joints.

I swear I've never seen more knuckle cracking going on than when I lived in Ireland.

bnt

I'm the only person I know whose feet crack like knuckles - the joints between the metatarsals. Not as loud as the knuckles, but it has freaked out a few girls ...

Novella

I can't crack my knuckles or any of my joints. My brother cracks his toes a lot and the sound... ugh.

Asphyxia

I can crack my jaw! I can't remember how I ever figured it out but it's fun to annoy people with it especially if they're cracking their knuckles at me.

It doesn't bother me to an extent but if they keep at it I can get fairly annoyed by it.

GLaDOS

bnt wrote: »

I'm the only person I know whose feet crack like knuckles - the joints between the metatarsals. Not as loud as the knuckles, but it has freaked out a few girls ...

I can crack my ankles and big toes quite well

phill106

All these ladies with clicking jaws, what on earth could have caused this?!

babyfratelli_x

BluesBerry wrote: »

I love cracking my knuckles sometimes I have a tension in my knuckles that I need to crack them to relieve it

I can make my ankles crack and when I bend down my knees crack

Same as this. Get a weird satisfaction from crackin my knuckles. And once I start, I have to crack them all, even if someone asks me to stop, have to get them all ou of my system 1st, then I stop

Jimmy Bottlehead

Can crack my knuckles, fingers, back and especially my neck. Neck freaks people out as it's both sides and on a good day, about six loud cracks on each side.

I'm healthy and definitely not destined for the grave sooner rather than later.

TPD

I crack my knuckes both ways, pushing fingers into the palm and then away from the palm. My wrists can crack indefinitely by rotating them. Knees crack if I've been sitting down for a while, can sometimes swing my lower leg and have it crack at each apex. Toes crack also, don't have a whole lot of control over that. Can crack my back to sort back pain, but that's a bit awkward. Can crack my elbows sometimes too.

Star Bingo

used to have crackling joints til i changed from ciggies to rollie baccy.. was the arsenic it think?

Hackysack

I don't really know why but I love cracking my joints. I know it freaks some people out but sometimes I do it subconsciously.

My wrist cracks quite easily, my knees crack, my ankles crack and practically everything does.

Glad to know i'm not the only one!

TanG411

I like to crack my fingers by intersecting them between my hands. (Like closing your hands in prayer).

Then just stretch out with a big crack.

I can crack the tips of my fingers, my ankles, and my right shoulder for some reason. I should get that checked because it hurts sometimes as well. :pac:

CiaranMT

I can crack:

• Elbows
• Wrists
• Every finger, numerous times (right thumb indefinitely)
• Back
• Knees
• Ankles
• Bridges of the foot
• Big toes

:pac:

Sanjuro

Cracking knuckles or other joints does not result in arthritis. Doctor Donald Unger cracked the knuckles of his left hand for 50 years while he didn't with this right hand. He concluded that there were no ill-effects of cracking knuckles. And he won the damn Ig Nobel Prize for it too.