Is it bad to "crack" your back or neck a lot?
This question is frequently asked because people
associate the "cracking" or "popping" of one's back or
neck with a chiropractic adjustment. The two are not the
same thing. If a person has a desire to "crack" his/her neck
or back it is often because one area of their spine is
fixated or jammed causing another area to move too
much and "pop", sometimes by itself. It's the fixated or
jammed area that needs to be properly adjusted by a
chiropractor so that the other parts of the spine will not be
hyper-mobile (moving too much) and noisy. When you
"crack" your back you may be relieving the tension for a
little while. Do you notice how it keeps coming back? That
is because you are not giving yourself a specific
chiropractic adjustment. The cause of the spinal tension,
the fixated or jammed (subluxated) vertebrae, has not
been corrected. Any person who makes a habit out of
"cracking" or "popping" their back or neck needs to go to
a Doctor of Chiropractic to have their spine checked.
Even a chiropractor cannot adjust him/herself.
This question is frequently asked because people
associate the "cracking" or "popping" of one's back or
neck with a chiropractic adjustment. The two are not the
same thing. If a person has a desire to "crack" his/her neck
or back it is often because one area of their spine is
fixated or jammed causing another area to move too
much and "pop", sometimes by itself. It's the fixated or
jammed area that needs to be properly adjusted by a
chiropractor so that the other parts of the spine will not be
hyper-mobile (moving too much) and noisy. When you
"crack" your back you may be relieving the tension for a
little while. Do you notice how it keeps coming back? That
is because you are not giving yourself a specific
chiropractic adjustment. The cause of the spinal tension,
the fixated or jammed (subluxated) vertebrae, has not
been corrected. Any person who makes a habit out of
"cracking" or "popping" their back or neck needs to go to
a Doctor of Chiropractic to have their spine checked.
Even a chiropractor cannot adjust him/herself.
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