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Cracking Your Neck
I know that if you crack your fingers a lot, that you're bound to get Arthritis, but I also hear cracking you back is good. I tend to crack my neck a lot, will that somehow cause Arthritis?
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I have had a similar problem with cracking my neck but my neck used to crack 24/7 even when I just moved my head to the side it would crack several times. You should probably go to a chyropracter and ask for a neck exam. I was a very healthy person but my health was being decreased because I ended up having one of the worse cases of forward head posture my chyrocracter has ever seen and ever since I went to the chyropracter my neck has started not to crack when I just move it and barely cracks at all now. THen on recent x-rays my neck moved back from all of the strength it had gained and it was now in a much better position for nerves to travel through my body for a better overall function throughout the body.
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Usually, no - popping joints wont cause arthritis. I would advise against you popping joints 24/7 though like some people do. Overdo it and you can cause inflammation and swelling, which is about the closest anyone can get to linking joint popping with arthritis, as many believe that eventually excessive abuse of joints can contribute to arthritis, or hasten its onset. But that is mostly speculation, and studies of joint cracking have been mainly inconclusive. If you pop a joint and it continues to hurt beyond the split-second that the popping lasts (such as it being somewhat sore for extended periods of time afterwards), you might want to stop and go see a doctor or a chiro. You stand a good chance of having some other damage that whas incidentally aggravated (though possibly not caused) by the popping. For example, I've had ligament/tendon problems that popping would have caused pain with, but popping didn't cause them by a long shot.
I used to crack my neck all the time - hard. I'd start out by snapping my head left and then right as hard as I possiby could in a fast motion, it wasn't gentle at all. Eventually I would grab my head and twist. My chiro has told me it was likely that over time this behavior, along with an auto accident I had, contributed to my having chronic neck/head/shoulder pain (sometimes with tingling and numbness in my left arm, so I'm pretty sure there is nerve damage). In my case this was more than just 'popping' my neck, I potentially put so much stress on my neck that it did indeed cause damage.
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Cracking any part of your body WITHOUT using your hands or pushing against something is good(like just stretching). If you use your hands to crack your neck, it could cause neck problems later in life, just crack it using the muscles in your neck.
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Neither is harmful, and neither will cause arthritis. That is a myth. According to reports
done by orthopedic (bone doctors). It is safe to do.
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