Health Cracking Your Joints

[muttweed]

I am capable of cracking my fingers upwards, downwards and sideways, I can crack my back, neck, shoulders, toes, ankles and knees.

It is so bad for you, and I think I'm going to pay for it in the future. When I turn 40, all my friends will be out playing tennis or golf or something, and I'll be the one in a wheelchair.

Anyone else do it?

 

[woopedazz]

People always say that it gives you arthritis, but personally I'd be more concerned by the carcinogenic effects of joint cracking.

 

[JR#8]

The arthritis thing is a myth. The noise you hear is air bubbles popping between the joints.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120917-is-it-bad-to-crack-your-knuckles

 

[woopedazz]

Air bubbles hold oxygen. Oxygen = reactive oxygen species = oxidants. People take ANTI-oxidants to lower them because... THEY CAUSE CANCER! Making air bubbles = cancer.

 

[muttweed]

The arthritis thing is a myth. The noise you hear is air bubbles popping between the joints.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120917-is-it-bad-to-crack-your-knuckles

I've cracked my back for years, and have been feeling pains there since I was 12 because of it (and because I had a habit of having my back too arched in an attempt to correct my posture). Haven't been able to bend over to my full potential since then.

 

[muttweed]

Air bubbles hold oxygen. Oxygen = reactive oxygen species = oxidants. People take ANTI-oxidants to lower them because... THEY CAUSE CANCER! Making air bubbles = cancer.

Ruh roh

 

[Marlowe]

I can crack my knuckles, fingers and toes, and when I roll my ankle, I can can hear it 'crackling'. But I've never attempted to crack my neck for fear of killing myself.

 

[muttweed]

I can crack my knuckles, fingers and toes, and when I roll my ankle, I can can hear it 'crackling'. But I've never attempted to crack my neck for fear of killing myself.

I cracked my neck right as you said that. Sometimes I get scared I'll crack it too far and lock my neck in that position permanently.

 

[woopedazz]

Back cracking leads to very embarrassing stories:

For me it was when I was in highschool and I was sitting there in my philosophy class trying to crack my back in my chair, and this hot girl saw me. Really, really hot. I kind of had a thing for her for a couple months and we smiled at eachother and stuff but she sat pretty far away so we didn't say much more than "hi." Anyway, she saw me doing that and it was before class actually started so we could move around and stuff, so she came up and offered to crack my back for me. I thought it was kind of wierd, but I accepted. So I stand up and she crosses my arms in front of me and stands right behind me and sort of picks me up onto her and bounces me (have you ever seen people crack backs this way? I have seen it but it's weird to explain.)

Anyway, it wasn't working, so she tried a huge bounce. Something popped really loudly, but then when she set me down I couldn't feel my legs. It was like they were totally asleep. So I ****ing collapsed in a heap on the ground, my legs going off in weird directions. Then I heard a hella loud farting noise and proceeded to diarrhea in my pants, I was so embarassed and I looked up at her face and she was just disgusted and everybody was like what the hell is going on? So I tried to get up and run away, but my legs didn't work. I couldn't move, and over the next thirty seconds or so my colon emptied really loudly. My teacher was hella mad and thought I was just being a freak on the floor, but after a while they realized I wasn't kidding around and they called an ambulance.

So I went to the hospital, and it turns out when she cracked my back somehow my spinal cord got pinched in btwn my vertebrae and they straightened it out with some emergency surgery and now I'm completely fine.

So... I never went back to that school.

 

[muttweed]

Back cracking leads to very embarrassing stories:

For me it was when I was in highschool and I was sitting there in my philosophy class trying to crack my back in my chair, and this hot girl saw me. Really, really hot. I kind of had a thing for her for a couple months and we smiled at eachother and stuff but she sat pretty far away so we didn't say much more than "hi." Anyway, she saw me doing that and it was before class actually started so we could move around and stuff, so she came up and offered to crack my back for me. I thought it was kind of wierd, but I accepted. So I stand up and she crosses my arms in front of me and stands right behind me and sort of picks me up onto her and bounces me (have you ever seen people crack backs this way? I have seen it but it's weird to explain.)

Anyway, it wasn't working, so she tried a huge bounce. Something popped really loudly, but then when she set me down I couldn't feel my legs. It was like they were totally asleep. So I ******* collapsed in a heap on the ground, my legs going off in weird directions. Then I heard a hella loud farting noise and proceeded to diarrhea in my pants, I was so embarassed and I looked up at her face and she was just disgusted and everybody was like what the hell is going on? So I tried to get up and run away, but my legs didn't work. I couldn't move, and over the next thirty seconds or so my colon emptied really loudly. My teacher was hella mad and thought I was just being a freak on the floor, but after a while they realized I wasn't kidding around and they called an ambulance.

So I went to the hospital, and it turns out when she cracked my back somehow my spinal cord got pinched in btwn my vertebrae and they straightened it out with some emergency surgery and now I'm completely fine.

So... I never went back to that school.

Feel like I've read that before. That is some funny stuff

 

[Stratton_Gun]

Back cracking leads to very embarrassing stories:

For me it was when I was in highschool and I was sitting there in my philosophy class trying to crack my back in my chair, and this hot girl saw me. Really, really hot. I kind of had a thing for her for a couple months and we smiled at eachother and stuff but she sat pretty far away so we didn't say much more than "hi." Anyway, she saw me doing that and it was before class actually started so we could move around and stuff, so she came up and offered to crack my back for me. I thought it was kind of wierd, but I accepted. So I stand up and she crosses my arms in front of me and stands right behind me and sort of picks me up onto her and bounces me (have you ever seen people crack backs this way? I have seen it but it's weird to explain.)

Anyway, it wasn't working, so she tried a huge bounce. Something popped really loudly, but then when she set me down I couldn't feel my legs. It was like they were totally asleep. So I ******* collapsed in a heap on the ground, my legs going off in weird directions. Then I heard a hella loud farting noise and proceeded to diarrhea in my pants, I was so embarassed and I looked up at her face and she was just disgusted and everybody was like what the hell is going on? So I tried to get up and run away, but my legs didn't work. I couldn't move, and over the next thirty seconds or so my colon emptied really loudly. My teacher was hella mad and thought I was just being a freak on the floor, but after a while they realized I wasn't kidding around and they called an ambulance.

So I went to the hospital, and it turns out when she cracked my back somehow my spinal cord got pinched in btwn my vertebrae and they straightened it out with some emergency surgery and now I'm completely fine.

So... I never went back to that school.

pretty sure I have seen that elsewhere!!!

 

[Messenger]

Air bubbles hold oxygen. Oxygen = reactive oxygen species = oxidants. People take ANTI-oxidants to lower them because... THEY CAUSE CANCER! Making air bubbles = cancer.

I got air bubble cancer from cracking my joints. Don't be like me.

 

[Poseidon]

Is there anything that doesn't cause cancer?

 

[Simon_Nesbit]

Is there anything that doesn't cause cancer?

Cancer?

 

[zimma]

Is there anything that doesn't cause cancer?

Just living long enough basically causes cancer, on a long enough timescale it's inevitable that you will get cancer of some form.

 

[Brad Goodman]

Haven't been able to bend over to my full potential since then.

Hmmm.

 

[Jordie_tackles]

Cancer?

Surely if there is one thing proven to cause cancer it is cancer?

 

[Tiff]

I can't and don't do it. But I have a mate that sits there while having a beer or something, just cracking constantly. It's like a nervous twitch and it drives me ****ing bonkers.

 

[kickazz]

Air bubbles hold oxygen. Oxygen = reactive oxygen species = oxidants. People take ANTI-oxidants to lower them because... THEY CAUSE CANCER! Making air bubbles = cancer.

I thought it was mainly Nitrogen?????

 

[kickazz]

I have read that doing it too much can stretch / weaken the ligaments. But that was liek on yahoo answers or some similarly credible source.

 

[kickazz]

Back cracking leads to very embarrassing stories:

For me it was when I was in highschool and I was sitting there in my philosophy class trying to crack my back in my chair, and this hot girl saw me. Really, really hot. I kind of had a thing for her for a couple months and we smiled at eachother and stuff but she sat pretty far away so we didn't say much more than "hi." Anyway, she saw me doing that and it was before class actually started so we could move around and stuff, so she came up and offered to crack my back for me. I thought it was kind of wierd, but I accepted. So I stand up and she crosses my arms in front of me and stands right behind me and sort of picks me up onto her and bounces me (have you ever seen people crack backs this way? I have seen it but it's weird to explain.)

Anyway, it wasn't working, so she tried a huge bounce. Something popped really loudly, but then when she set me down I couldn't feel my legs. It was like they were totally asleep. So I ******* collapsed in a heap on the ground, my legs going off in weird directions. Then I heard a hella loud farting noise and proceeded to diarrhea in my pants, I was so embarassed and I looked up at her face and she was just disgusted and everybody was like what the hell is going on? So I tried to get up and run away, but my legs didn't work. I couldn't move, and over the next thirty seconds or so my colon emptied really loudly. My teacher was hella mad and thought I was just being a freak on the floor, but after a while they realized I wasn't kidding around and they called an ambulance.

So I went to the hospital, and it turns out when she cracked my back somehow my spinal cord got pinched in btwn my vertebrae and they straightened it out with some emergency surgery and now I'm completely fine.

So... I never went back to that school.

Needs to be cross-posted in the "times you defecated yourself" thread.

 

[woopedazz]

Needs to be cross-posted in the "times you defecated yourself" thread.

I think it's already in there. A tale from Ye Olde Internet.

 

[TheGhostOfJohnBelushi]

Always consult Dr Karl on these things: http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/homework/s95607.htm

I remember hearing him talk about this once and recall him mention that if you crack your neck, there is a chance of paralysis. Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but I still crack my neck anyway.

 

[THRILLHO]

I crack my back, neck (very, very rarely, last resort for a headache or something similar), fingers, ankles, and both big toes. I can crack my left toe constantly by moving it up and down whereas I can only get my right toe occasionally. Used to annoy my parents no end growing up and I'd be lying on the couch, next to the recliner and basically just have my cracking left toe constantly in their ear

I know it's only anecdotal evidence, but ever since I broke my left leg, my left big toe has been incredibly stiff and clicks for the first three or so steps after not walking on it for more than an hour or so.

 

[BEEG]

Back cracking leads to very embarrassing stories:

For me it was when I was in highschool and I was sitting there in my philosophy class trying to crack my back in my chair, and this hot girl saw me. Really, really hot. I kind of had a thing for her for a couple months and we smiled at eachother and stuff but she sat pretty far away so we didn't say much more than "hi." Anyway, she saw me doing that and it was before class actually started so we could move around and stuff, so she came up and offered to crack my back for me. I thought it was kind of wierd, but I accepted. So I stand up and she crosses my arms in front of me and stands right behind me and sort of picks me up onto her and bounces me (have you ever seen people crack backs this way? I have seen it but it's weird to explain.)

Anyway, it wasn't working, so she tried a huge bounce. Something popped really loudly, but then when she set me down I couldn't feel my legs. It was like they were totally asleep. So I ******* collapsed in a heap on the ground, my legs going off in weird directions. Then I heard a hella loud farting noise and proceeded to diarrhea in my pants, I was so embarassed and I looked up at her face and she was just disgusted and everybody was like what the hell is going on? So I tried to get up and run away, but my legs didn't work. I couldn't move, and over the next thirty seconds or so my colon emptied really loudly. My teacher was hella mad and thought I was just being a freak on the floor, but after a while they realized I wasn't kidding around and they called an ambulance.

So I went to the hospital, and it turns out when she cracked my back somehow my spinal cord got pinched in btwn my vertebrae and they straightened it out with some emergency surgery and now I'm completely fine.

So... I never went back to that school.

Thats some funny stuff