So.... I think I'll stop cracking my knuckles, my neck and my spine

I feel in my fingers (and my toes) when I need to crack them. They feels a little bit stiff because of the bubble. I maybe cracks them up to 5 times a day, not more than that. I dont recognize that talk about it comes back after 20 minutes.

who cracked their fingers before watching the video and felt guilty afterward

It's not bad for you (nor good), but a chiropractor (should be illegal to call these quacks doctors) which is an expensive acupuncturist or aromatherapist that charges you for professionally popping your joints would say it should be done by him and pay him $200 for the luxury.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracking_joints

There was this one little kid that cracked his fingers all day, and his mom was angry at him and when she heard him she would have an argument with him and tell him to stop because it's bad for him.

The years passed and the kid became a doctor and he cracked his fingers each and every day as often as he could. After many, many years when he was old he went and had his hands examined to see the damage, and there was absolutely nothing wrong with his joints... at which point he said: "Mother, you where wrong!"

His mother was not alive anymore, but he did win the argument.

I'm to lazy too look it up and find his name, but it's true.

Chiropractic is not the same as medicine, similar but not the same. Modern medicine claims that it is not dangerous crackling......

#6 True, it's not medicine. It's more like physiotherapy. It's manipulation of joints, doing the kinds of motions that the patient can't do by them selves (due to pain it causes, when you use your muscles to do it, the joints get compressed, when someone else does it for you, you can keep it relaxed) And like the guy said in the video, popping your joints is ok if you don't do it obsessively.

In our family, we got loose joints, i can all crack pretty much every one of them (apart of course from the big joints like knees and shoulders..) The problem i have is pinched nerves and the quick remedy is to pop the joint. It "stretches" the joint just little bit but it's usually enough that those nerves are being released. It's really important to keep the right posture after that, otherwise the problem comes back very soon. I'm not looking for that pop, i do my routine of stretching but since my joints are really loose, it is quite a ratatata..

I injured my back too when i was a teen, working on two jobs, doing double shifts on weekends assembling pallets (repetitive task with twisting motion picking up lumber and the nail gun, one 14h shift too many and i had my vertebrae twisted so bad that i actually had my torso twisted, could hardly walk.. A chiropractor fixed it in 10 minutes but he said that this will injury will be with me for the rest of my life.. There's very little apart from exercise and right posture when working to help the situation.

My L3 and L4 are hypermobile and popping them is usually the only quick home remedy. It's the sciated nerve bundle that gets pinched and it's freaking painful, at it's worst, my whole leg gets totally numb, feels like it's a solid piece without any joints, i can't walk properly and the pain shoots up to my jaw and neck.. No medicine can numb that pain (i refuse to use opiates, my stomach just stops working after 10mg of codeine, not nearly enough for pain relief..) So i pop it and it's 15 minutes and the pain starts to go away.