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Title: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: Penguin on February 16, 2011, 06:50:50 PM
This has been plaguing me for my entire life- my joints crack like crazy!  It's in both ankles, the right side of my jaw, my back, my wrists, my neck, my elbows (which feel like I'm splitting plywood) and now my left ring finger's last joint!  How can I get this to stop?  It's a loud cracking and clicking noise which drives me batty all the time (NOTE: this is a result of normal movement, not me trying to crack the joint).

It also seems to be just me with the condition- I've never heard anyone with it. 

-Penguin
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: redman555 on February 16, 2011, 06:55:58 PM
Jaw I would say TMJ, I have TMJ. But idk about the rest of your body lol

-BigBOBCH
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: Masherbrum on February 16, 2011, 07:10:54 PM
I know who this "Penguin" is, but I refuse to spoil the surprise.   
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: caldera on February 16, 2011, 07:21:39 PM
(http://i343.photobucket.com/albums/o460/caldera_08/tumblr_ldn8lnS6Ra1qao2fvo1_400.jpg)

"WAAAAA WAA WAA WAA!"
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: 68ZooM on February 16, 2011, 07:28:22 PM
Could be from playing to much Baseball

http://www.funrestarea.com/pages/penguin_baseball.shtml (http://www.funrestarea.com/pages/penguin_baseball.shtml)
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: Penguin on February 16, 2011, 07:53:38 PM
Jaw I would say TMJ, I have TMJ. But idk about the rest of your body lol

-BigBOBCH

TMJ

Too Much Jam?
Totally Munching Joyfully?
Two Midgets Jumping?

Sorry if this sounds like a Wa-Wa post, but it seems to be spreading.  :uhoh

-Penguin
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: Meatwad on February 16, 2011, 08:23:10 PM
Too Much Jawing
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: M0nkey_Man on February 16, 2011, 08:39:30 PM
Could be from playing to much Baseball

http://www.funrestarea.com/pages/penguin_baseball.shtml (http://www.funrestarea.com/pages/penguin_baseball.shtml)

lol, baeseball is the best sport ever!
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: Dichotomy on February 16, 2011, 09:21:47 PM
Such a situation.. I like Penguin but I couldn't help but giggle when I launched him 495 ft :D
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: phatzo on February 16, 2011, 09:46:43 PM
Could be from playing to much Baseball

http://www.funrestarea.com/pages/penguin_baseball.shtml (http://www.funrestarea.com/pages/penguin_baseball.shtml)
489.5
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: BowHTR on February 17, 2011, 01:31:11 PM
489.5

514.4 first hit. I played this a lot in high school.

After about 6 or 7 hits got one to 531.6 then a 524.6

Theres a little gray circle about 2-3 cursor heights above the Yeti. When the penguin get there, click to swing. Guaranteed at least 400-500ft.
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: maddafinga on February 17, 2011, 01:45:11 PM
Ooh, just got 542.9!
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: Soulyss on February 17, 2011, 02:31:07 PM
*edit*

593.5

 :)
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: Dragon on February 17, 2011, 02:57:47 PM
This has been plaguing me for my entire life- my joints crack like crazy! 

-Penguin


Sounds to me like old, dry papers or your just not licking them correctly.
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: DMGOD on February 17, 2011, 02:59:44 PM
think you guys are all full of poop i can't get him further the 495  :bhead
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: Ripsnort on February 17, 2011, 03:07:14 PM
Too much gas in your joints...that's the short answer.
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: dunnrite on February 17, 2011, 03:46:20 PM
593.5   :D
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: shotgunneeley on February 17, 2011, 08:12:01 PM
When I flex my left arm, my elbow makes a very cringing series of pops and cracks. It doesn't cause me any pain, but whenever I go to the doctor for any particular reason, I ask them what they think might be causing it. I don't get a very comforting feeling when they give me the  :huh look.

I'll get it in my ankles every so often. They'll just make one loud "pop" when I flex them, like a stick breaking  :uhoh
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: phatzo on February 17, 2011, 08:15:20 PM
When I flex my left arm, my elbow makes a very cringing series of pops and cracks. It doesn't cause me any pain, but whenever I go to the doctor for any particular reason, I ask them what they think might be causing it. I don't get a very comforting feeling when they give me the  :huh look.

I'll get it in my ankles every so often. They'll just make one loud "pop" when I flex them, like a stick breaking  :uhoh
Drink with both arms and put some windex on it.
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: Penguin on February 18, 2011, 09:12:14 AM
I have the elbow flex crack, but it hurts like heck!

-Penguin

PS: Thanks for fulfilling my species' dream of flight
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: Banshee7 on February 18, 2011, 09:29:19 AM
My ankles and kees pop all the time...makes me sound like an old man when I walk or stand up lol
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: Simaril on February 18, 2011, 09:57:08 AM

Sounds to me like old, dry papers or your just not licking them correctly.

For the win
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: Penguin on February 18, 2011, 09:58:10 AM
Oh, now I get the joke.

-Penguin

PS, Simaril, your name is in the title!
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: Simaril on February 18, 2011, 10:03:03 AM
This has been plaguing me for my entire life- my joints crack like crazy!  It's in both ankles, the right side of my jaw, my back, my wrists, my neck, my elbows (which feel like I'm splitting plywood) and now my left ring finger's last joint!  How can I get this to stop?  It's a loud cracking and clicking noise which drives me batty all the time (NOTE: this is a result of normal movement, not me trying to crack the joint).

It also seems to be just me with the condition- I've never heard anyone with it.  

-Penguin

From what I've been told, joints "crack" (like "cracking your knuckles") when movement creates enough negative pressure that gasses dissolved in the joint synovial fluid pop into gaseous state. Same principle causes the bends when people change ambient pressure to rapidly, and ALL the dissolved gas goes to gaseous state at once.

On the other hand, the "snap crackle pop" that older folks run into comes from irregular joint surfaces, most commonly wear and tear to cartilage. This kind can be felt as a roughness or grinding from the joint when you rest your hand over the joint as it moves, and is called "crepitus". Now that I think about it, I suppose its possible that irregular surfaces could cause micro- areas where the negative pressure is more extreme in one particular cartilage crater, thereby getting small areas to have the gas pop into gaseous form.

So, Penguin, if your joints all seem to pop more easily I'd wonder if they are more flexible than many peoples', which would make them more prone to get enough movement to create the negative pressure
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: Xasthur on February 18, 2011, 10:15:34 AM
Ooh, just got 542.9!

Hahaha. 542.4 second go.

Edit...

575.7  :lol
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: Reschke on February 18, 2011, 10:34:17 AM
Make him skip along and you get upwards of 550


<---574.9
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: Shuffler on February 18, 2011, 01:39:23 PM
Were you one of the kids that ate glue in class?  :)
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: DMGOD on February 18, 2011, 11:19:57 PM
Make him skip along and you get upwards of 550


<---574.9

SWEET thanks for the tip 558.1 so far lol this is more fun the aces high lol
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: ROX on February 19, 2011, 12:53:44 PM
After football, wrestling, carrying 6 75lb buckets of blacktop sealer at a time at the loading dock, I now know my Roman name would have been....


"Crepitus Maximus"
Title: Re: SIMARIL! Why do my joints keep cracking?
Post by: bagrat on February 19, 2011, 04:29:23 PM
<---593  :banana: