Cracking your back and etc.

[Karatekid04]

Is cracking your back ok for you if you do TKD?

[Rich67]

Cracking your back in the sense of what? Like a chiropractor would or just moving around and cracking it? To be honest, I am not a believer in chiropractic medicine. I find it along the same lines of homeopathic remedies. Cracking your back can have some detrimental effects on your muscles surrounding the back in the long run. Best to leave it alone and seek out a doctor if you have issues with your back. Otherwise, just cracking it because it looks and sounds cool or because it relieves tension is kind of a waste of time and serves no real purpose, in my opinion. Others may disagree, but before you all jump down my throat, note this is my OPINION.

[Batman]

well just think of it this way, will any good come out of cracking your back? even if you don't know if it's good or bad, nothing good really comes out of cracking your back...so there really is no need to do it

[Rotten Head Fok]

I used to , thinking it was helping me in some way, but then like Rich67 says , maybe it just sounded cool. I stopped and I've had no problems because of it, if anything my back feels better.

[Karatekid04]

I mean every time i crack my back my muscles in my back feel looser and stretched

[DLopez]

I remember being told as a child that cracking my knuckles would give me arthritis, or make my knuckles all big and bony...

 

Neither has happened, and GAWD!! I can think of only a few things that feel better than a good knuckle cracking!

 

I don't crack my back very often, but sometimes when I get a 'kink' in my back, and I get a friend to crack it, it often relieves the kink and it feels so good to have the muscles and stuff stretched like that.

 

I think there is much merit to homeopathic rememdies... techniques like accu-pressure and accu-puncture had been around curing ailments for centuries before 'modern' medicine came on the scene.

[The-Muay-Thai-Kickboxer]

I crack my back and my knuckles and my knuckels are like rocks but thats good because my hits hurt alot more but with my back it just is a relief for my back after i crack it

[White Warlock]

The noise of the crack is actually a quick release of trapped fluids between your joints, which could otherwise pose pressure on nerves or interfere with the motion of the joints themselves.

 

The main problem with 'cracking' is that you are causing the cartilage of your joints to impact themselves with force (sudden change in pressure). if you have your weight on one or more of these joints when performing such an action, you also add that to the factor. It could damage your cartilage and possibly even aggravate the area to the point that calcium deposits begin to form. Calcium deposits act as sandpaper to cartilage and bones, therein inducing arthritis.

 

Another problem with 'cracking,' if done regularly, is that you are stretching your tendons when doing such. This could cause your joints to become loose, which could encourage the trapping of fluids, as well as pose the threat for dislocation or a herniated disc.

 

Etc etc etc...

[Guest]

Have had back pain on and off for years. I stretch it every day during workouts. Has been better. If you have hurt your back in the past...be careful..heed...seriously!!!