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Is it safe to Crack your back … even for back pain relief
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For back pain relief, is “cracking” your own back safe or good? Can you actually help your self remove your back pain doing this?
Simply put no! Actually it is a big NO!!!
Why?
The joints you are cracking are more than likely not the ones causing your back pain. Pain is like a fire alarm. The alarm and the site of the fire are not always the same. The same with back pain – pain can be in one joint but it may be a joint elsewhere referring or radiating pain to another location. You may be aiming to get back pain relief – you may end up making your back pain worse.
The next reason is even more serious. When you “crack” the back, you risk injury. I know you have many Chiropractors working this way (I myself use to adjust using forceful adjustments), but they are trained and still can cause injury.
The reason I use a “pressure release” adjustment is that it is 100% safe and painless, you can apply it to any joint, can do no harm, direct it in the correct direction and even teach you to do this your self at home. So you can apply it and help with your back pain.
Joints that are sore are sprained or strained. Placing a large force to that area can aggravate or increase the damage already there. Surely you want to remove the trauma – so a light adjustment is best. You don’t make a cut deeper for it to heal faster so why would you increase the trauma to a joint to make it heal faster.
The last reason is this…
If you continuously “crack” your back or get someone else to do this – you will make the area hypermobile. This means the joint and the ligaments/muscles supporting it become slack. Therefore less support or resistance to injury or just day to day life pressures. You are therefore more likely to develop chronic ongoing problems in this area. You may be asking - “what about all those chiropractic visits?”
Even though I’m a Chiropractor, it is my opinion that cracking joints on a regular basis is not good for long term structural health. If you want back pain relief – gentle is best as is letting the body have time to heal itself.
So should you “crack” your back, or have someone else do it. NO, NO and NO!
You perform better with encouragement than you do with a fiery approach, the same applies to education, sport or whatever. If you encourage the experience is more enjoyable and you learn more and better from it.
The same applies to changing your spine or muscles. Encourage rather than force them to work and they will enjoy it, benefit greater and give you a life with a lot less back pain. You should release joint pressure and pain using the best and simplest (and safest) way possible – back pain relief using simple, safe and painless self adjustment.
2 Responses
Chiropractor Plano
22|Mar|2010 1Great post! Stretching and yoga are alos good solution to help prevent bsck psin. I’m a big believer in my chiropractor, he has done wonders for my back.
FrankV
23|Aug|2010 2Great article. I agree 100% with everything you said. Why use a forceful thrust to crack a joint, when you can get the same pain relieving effects with gentle stretching and massage of the muscles and joints. This is a lot safer, and usually bring better results anyway especially in the acute phase where the jopints/muscles/nerves are painful and inflamed!
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