Cracking joints

[erin212f]

For the longest time, every time I work out everything pops.  Pushups? Shoulders crack.  Squats? Knees sound like popcorn.  Stretching cracks my back like somebody playing the xylophone.  It doesn't usually hurt, and my back always feels heavenly after stretching.  Does anybody else have that too?

[Synyster]

My body pops all over the place, not generally from working out, but just from popping them, other than my knees. My knees just do their own thing. It's a build up of some gel fluid stuff in the joints and when it "pops" its being released. At a different view:

Oil running through an engine. It thickens up and gets a little stuck. Now, this isn't an "accurate portrait" but a painting for you to see what's going on. Now see, all this pressure is built up right? One more turn and some fresh oil and "pop" goes the dry stuff, fluids flow through and you're good to go. There's been an on going myth that this is related to Arthritis, which I find to be a load of bull, but I guess I will know when I'm old! 

[guinnesshero]

Im 39 and my joints pop all the time. My knees more than anything since they are bad. 

[Georges]

Here's the link that Phi gave me when I asked about the popping noise I had...

http://www.eatmoveimprove.com/2010/03/cracking-and-popping-and-clicking-oh-my/

[I-Jo]

From what I've read as long as it isn't a painful popping or clicking you're *usually* okay.  

 

<---------- not doctor so don't take it as gospel- just from the various things I've read in the last years.

 

I snap crackle and pop when I get out of bed- it's actually (now that I think about it) about 75% better than it was 2-3 years ago- I looked ridiculous getting out of bed- it was usually 4-5 whole steps before I was done popping and actually could stand up straight.  

 

Now I have a whole other series of problems- but that one doesn't seem to be plaguing me as much LOL

[Jakob Kopfeld]

From time to time that happens to me aswell (early 20ies). No pain, no nothing, so I figure it's all good. 

[gabbox]

Every time I do a push up my elbows pop. It sounds awful but it doesn't hurt at all. I'm just glad that the music is blaring at my boxing gym so nobody will ask if something is wrong. It literally sounds like they get dislocated. 

[Unos]

A doctor told me that, craking = working. In other words, if it craks it works but, there is a lot of research going on out there.