i have a bad habit of popping my neck because i play alot of video games and my neck is in constant pain and when i pop my neck it relieves the pain for like 30 minutes
Thanks for this. I learn from other people’s mistakes, and after reading some of the comments on your other ‘neck’ videos - my mind is convinced that I must stop, and win this battle, or lose heavily.
I found that turning my head to the left then holding it and then turning it right and holding it helped to loosen things without cracking the neck. It seemed to work well and reduced the need to crack. I've also noticed that neck cracking is something that teenagers do a lot. Is this because they are still growing?
I don’t know why but for me it’s not that cracking my neck is a habit, it’s more like I feel like I have to do it. In other words, I know that I’m cracking my neck, but I feel like I have to do it all the time. I also do a similar thing with my knees. For my knees, I feel like I have to “straighten” them as much as possible (I don’t know how to explain it) and same with my back and fingers. I thought it was something that had to do with my adhd or anxiety but it has been getting bad. I can’t go a day or an hour without doing those! Does anyone/ you know what’s happening?
You're correct. In another video I explain that it's usually a habit. If you pop multiple areas, there's a chance you have some instability. I would recommend strengthening exercises to give you more strength around those joints. Find a good personal trainer or physical therapist.
I work and game at a computer almost all day and cracking my neck is a very big habit, And ever since I fond out that you could give yourself a stroke for popping your neck I have been so scared of my bad neck cracking habit, this vid was sooo helpful to get me to slow down in the cracking. You just got and instant sub and like my friend. :)
Thanks for the video doc !! It did help relieve my pain needing too crack… Although i havent cracked my neck for a good week. I noticed all day i can get dizzy or have little pinch stabbing around my head (headache feeling) and i just feel so sore around my head !! I’m sure this is related to me cracking my neck in the past. But what can i do to stop my head from being sore and dizzy ? I stopped the cracking at least a week now.. (makes huge noises if i crack). Will this headache ever go away ?
Thank you so much- would you say that the same applies to the lumbar spine? I have a situation of some functional instability, I believe but will get caught in a cycle of pain and feeling like I need to manipulate my back over and over. It never brings long term relief though.
I’ve been cracking my neck, arms, back, knees, foot (where the toes are) my toes and lastly my hands. Everything is getting so much better. The main and most problematic one is my neck. I’ve been doing it for over a year and I didn’t know how to stop at all. It started because I turned my neck and it felt good and I just couldn’t stop. I don’t know how to explain it but when I am like tight or stressed my neck becomes so annoying. I feel like I can’t move and have to crack it. I would force myself to crack it after it didn’t the first two times as I thought it was helping me but it wasn’t. After watching this video my neck is already feeling way tighter. It’s so hard to fall asleep. Not because of my electronics but my neck. Every time and everywhere I sleep isn’t good enough for it or anything. My back USED to be my second issue and not it’s not. As I’m writing this, today was the first day I’ve cracked my back in over a week and possibly over 2 weeks. I soon just quit and forgot about it. I haven’t watch all of your videos just two since I looked it up and stuff. My second which is kinda weird is my foot. The one day I got a message on my foot and they cracked it and ever since I couldn’t help it. I do it EVERYWHERE. I do it at the movie theaters , the store, friends house and more. I’m not embarrassed that I crack different parts of my body and it’s weird it’s me and it’s me. We’re all weird let’s be honest. And my last problematic one is my fingers. It’s honestly just very loud and annoying but, a good thing is that it can be taken as intimidation why is good and bad for some reason ya know!? I ALSO HAVE A QUESTION so my ankle cracks since I could remember my dad also has it now, I don’t know if it’s genetics or anything since he had it way before I was born or if I just picked it up. It’s both of my ankles. So sorry one more question. So when I walk, my ankle recently like a few months ago during school it’s been giving out. Like so my right ankle when I would walk it was give out. No, it’s not because I’m overweight I don’t think since tbh that’s the foot I sorta put less weight on but, it’s been doing this only toward the end of school and now open til the beginning of next year! Hopefully you can answer my questions and if so Tysm.
Same and I also pop my hips wrist and ankles as extra basically everything you said to I pop my knuckles and also the area where your fingers bend in half 😅
So I’m watching your video with a heading pad over my neck. So I have a question I’m going on day four with neck pain. Like the back of my neck and the side muscles of my neck are tensed and they hurt. I get real bad anxiety and my muscles usually tense up. I’ve been popping my neck for years now where I twist my neck and it pops to release pressure. Well Monday night around 8pm I had two cups of coffee bad idea and from the caffeine my heart started to raise and got anxiety and I felt my neck and shoulders tensed up and I cracked my neck to release pressure and I dk what I did but my neck felt like it needed to pop again and i tried to but didn’t want to pop so I left it alone. Then the whole night I couldn’t sleep bc of the coffee but I had the urge to pop my neck and I got anxiety from the feeling of trying to pop my neck. This morning I woke up and my neck felt tight and I didn’t want to pop my neck so I did neck stretches and tbh it didn’t work so I gave in and popped my neck and it felt so good. But now I’m regretting it bc my neck is hurting like the back of my neck and the side of my neck. I can stil move my neck back and forth and turn my neck side to side and tilt left to right without any pain. So did I do something or pull something in the middle of my neck? Or did I rip or tore something? It’s not severe pain that I can’t tolerate it’s just a slight pain that lingers and it just hurts and it feels sore. I just pray it goes away bc it’s taking away my family time and my son really wants to play and I can’t even move as much as i want to because I’m afraid I might hurt something in my neck. I’m 35 years old and I’ve been cracking my neck since high school on and off I know that’s terrible but it’s the only thing that gave me relief from stress. I also had one point where I was at work and i got really bad anxiety and my neck and back muscles tensed up so bad that i was in pain for awhile and I would put heating pads on my shoulders and it finally went away after a week but in this case its my neck.
Thank you! I've been cracking my neck increasingly more for a few years and I noticed it got bad when my partner thought it was my tick haha. I'm going to take up the battle.
This is a great video, I had kind of an addiction to popping my neck, but I got rid of that really quickly because I watched your video, and it helped me. Thx a lot
