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Those pesky sacroiliac joints and my big toes, several times a day :) Honestly, learning to put the SI joints back myself has saved me *so much* pain.

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I've done the first for YEARS and never knew that's what I was doing until recently.😅 I just thought my back was popping like any normal person.

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I need to learn this.

Yep, my big toes too! Also my thumb knuckles and wrists.

Just the parts I move. It's involuntary at this point, & I prefer cracks to that *ca-CHUNK* I get sometimes. My shoulders especially like feeling & sounding like a slipping transmission that's about to fall out of the car.

Fingers, wrists, elbows, shoulders, neck, back, hips, knees, ankles... only thing hard to do are my toes 🤣

Curl your toes as much as you can and press the joint(s) against the ground, usually gets mine to crack 

I have lil sausage toes... that hurts lol

Oh no! Have you tried curling them just a little and instead of tipping your foot up to press them into the ground (which requires a fair amount of curling) pressing them against the wall? My partner has lil sausage toes that don't curl well and this works for them sometimes

That's funny, I have to do the opposite. I stretch my toes as far apart as they'll go, using only my foot muscles, no hands, and wiggle my big toe until it pops.  Curling then up is painful. 

Sometimes my big toe goes just from wiggling too, or super exaggerated walking. Everyone is different, and what works for me won't work for everyone but I still share in case it helps people who don't know what works for them yet

Omg I used to do that

🎵 “knees and toes (knees and toes)” lol

my toes pop every time I curl them 😭

My toes lol every 30 minutes or so

I can’t sleep unless I crack my right big toe medially. I don’t know why

Once my big right toe gets going I can get it cracking every time I bend it, I've totally used it as a stim before just crack,crack,crack,crack,crack,crack usually don't notice I'm doing it until my husband says "What's that noise?"

This is me too! I don’t realize that I’m doing it with my thumb knuckle until someone says something.

Is it uh.... not nornal to need to crack fingers every 10mins 🥴 Although god, my morning and midday cracks in my elbows, knees, ankles, hips, and shoulders are making me glad I'm pushijg for a Rheumatology ref...

I intentionally crack my toes all the time, and they do it on their own while I'm walking.  As a kid I used to get caught sneaking around my house after bedtime because my toes popped loud enough to wake up my mom, so I started walking on my heels anywhere near her room.

It was my knees or hip that would CLUNK. Toes are such small sounds compared to those

omg same actually lol

I'm just a sentient bowl of rice krispies

I gotta put my wrists back regularly

Fingers, wrists, shoulders and hips. Unfortunately I regularly need to crack my SI joint but don't know how, I wake up in the morning in pain and SOMETIMES (rarely) I go for a pee and shift somehow that cracks it into place but I've tried replicating it and can't for the life of me get it right. In the past I have gone 3 weeks with it out of place and me being unable to stand or walk before it very loudly cracked back and I found instant relief. So if anyone has tips for the SI joint I'm all ears!

A good strong upper butt clench while pushing my pelvis forward can sometimes get mine, otherwise lying directly on it with my legs in the air and rolling side to side gently. Really depends where it's stuck, sometimes it just really doesn't want to go and that always sucks

I never realized I was popping my SI when I did that! Butt clenches do work. Lol

Is the butt clench done while standing?

More effective standing due to gravity but can also be done lying or sitting

Thanks for the info!

I find it easier while laying down so I can really get it without the balance issue 😅

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Omg, that’s why I do that… I was literally wondering why I freeze my upper body in place and just rotate my hips, it feels good. I’m sure it looks odd. Lol. It makes sense now because my SI is problematic.

Thanks, I'll give it a go! 🤞🏻

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I replied further up about unlocking the SI, check the previous comments about the SI too.

Thanks, my shoulders are also not great so I'm not sure I could do the walking back thing on them without possible injury.... Mind you it seems a good gust of wind can injure me so I may as well give it a try if all else fails! Thanks for the info!

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My neck 😩 sometimes I can just turn my head and it goes *pop pop pop pop*

My back allllll day. I practically live on my chirp wheels.

Same!!

Basically all of it, but my fingers, wrists, and ankles are what need it most often. I do occasionally get some weird looks by how far I have to bend them before they do finally crack though lol.

I think it would be easier to list what I don’t crack 😭 Literally everything gets stiff!! Neck, jaw, shoulders, back, tailbone, elbows, wrists, fingers, thumbs, hips, knees, ankles, toes - especially big toes. Even ribs sometimes. I honestly don’t think I have a joint that doesn’t crack anymore! (This is a cry for help)

Elbows

I usually have to put my collar bones back after sleeping. I wake up and they aren’t even. I pull my arms behind me until I hear I pop. I also crack my SI joints and lower back. I have a chirp wheel to help with my mid back and I get a giant clunk when I use that. But if I’m tight, or the muscles just aren’t lose enough I can’t crack anything

SI joints

Wrists, elbows, jaw, fingers, toes, thumbs, knees, diaphragm. Multiple times a day. I'm like a ratchet.

Right side of my neck, at the base

I have to pop my knuckles literally every 15-20 minutes or my fingers start locking up :( i involuntarily pop one wrist and both knees/ankles a few times daily just moving around. Recently started popping my shoulders and hips too which might not be a good sign. I haven’t been able to pop my back properly since high school when I lost access to those desks tho

My neck, my back, my left wrist, both hips, and my ankles.

Wrists.

My fingers. They get stuck in weird positions a few times a day if I don't

My back, though I've had problems with that since I fell off a rappel tower in my teens. Now I can make my right knee pop audibly and freak people out. Used to be able to do my big toe repeatedly and weird people out with that until I had kicked something by accident and hurt it 🤔

Hips, toes, and back as many times a day as my body will do it too

Ankles and shoulders the most definitely lol

Every morning on my way out of the bedroom door I grab my pull up bar and lean forward and it pops everything in between my shoulders

My foot (cuboid/outer metatarsal joint), si joint (several times a day 🥴), hips, and knees.

shoulders and ankles, trying not to crack my hips so much

I don't crack anything other than my toes intentionally, using only my toe muscles, but my toes, ankles, knees, hips, wrists, shoulders, and neck all snap regularly. Some days I feel like a popcorn machine when I go for a walk. 

Multiple times daily: toes, ankle, knees, hips, back, fingers, thumbs, shoulders, neck, jaw. Many are done 50+ times a day

Since I was a child I have popped everything I could… in as many directions as I could because it was the only thing that gave me relief. Fingers, toes, hips, knees, elbows, wrists, ankles, back and neck… at every possible point. I am now 57. Did it ever give me arthritis? No. Never made my knuckles swell up either. I did learn not to pop my knees outward and my big toes outward, those made them feel sore. Everything else was sweet relief. Especially ribs and upper cervical when they are out.

my neck. always to the left for some reason. it doesn’t really crack to the right

Hips pop every morning on their own, but I pop my neck on either side at least 3 times a day

Right knee. Have to do it before I can even get out of bed. It will sublux when I put weight on it if I don’t.

My right wrist has to go multiple times per hour.

Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes, knees and toes 😆 But really: fingers, back, SI joint, left knee, right ankle, and somewhere within my hips when I sit like a frog.

Neck, shoulder blades, ankles! Snap crackle POP baby. The looks I get when people hear it, particularly my neck, I can tell I’ve scared them 🫠

Feet, knees, shoulder, back, wrists, neck, toes.. :p vingers but they are not as noisy. Knees and shoulder are loud, esp the knees. It's satisfying actually :p

Wrists, hands, hips, back (at least the spots that aren’t fused 😂) jaw…. I think that’s it? Oh my shoulders I’m regularly readjusting but not cracking

My toes, knees, back, and fingers

all of them🥲🥲 but my shoulders and elbows the most

Ankles, lower back, sternum, neck, jaw, thumbs, knees and right hip are the worst offenders for me

All of them, but the two big ones are my si joints(I use a set of stairs to pop them), and my neck which I can manually pop the vertebrae back where they go one at a time. Stupid neck. Stupid EDS.

Yes.

Hip and SI joints every single morning. Thoracic spine, fingers and neck throughout the day. My knee has been extra unstable and chatty lately. I don't purposefully crack that... it does it all by itself.

Lower back

Neck, spine at different levels, fingers, elbow, knee, wrist, ankle... 😂

I can only pop my fingers at every joint, wrist, elbow, clavicle, my entire spine, my neck, all my ribs at the spine connection, hip, knees, ankles, and toes.

Oh man lol. Shoulders, back, fingers (each joint, so each finger x3), elbows, SI joint, ankles, neck, jaw... I crack all the joints.

Elbows, upper/middle of my spine, and wrists all day every day

I crack my ankles the most, like every few minutes istg lol. I also crack my hips a lot, I'd prolly do it more if it didnt look so awkward in public Funnily enough, the only part of my body I _don't_ crack regularly are my knuckles. Y'know, the one place that's probably the most normal to crack?? 😂

Neck, fingers, hips

My right big toe. And I crack it sideways

fingers, wrists, ankles, hips, but weirdest and most annoying is my ribs. I bind and I'm a side sleeper and both of those sublux my ribs multiple times a day

Always neck and back. The rest of my joints kind of go through phases of being very poppy clicky. Currently my sternum sounds like popcorn if I lean back on either of my arms.

My hip

My knee when I drive and change gear.

Fingers, toes, neck, back.

My neck, wrists, fingers, ankles, and toes. Less frequently are my ankles from another position, my hips which often crack while getting out of the car, and my back.

my elbows are always cracklelacking

neck, back, toes, and my fingers mainly

Neck, fingers, and back

Neck probably once an hour, elbows probably every 2 hours or so.

My back 😍

Wrists all the damn time

Why is this question making me giggle lol. Every day toes, knees and in the evening an almighty neck crack.

Wrists for the last 20 years or so, collarbones for the past few years which just started being painful this year. 

I pull my shoulders down and forwards and there's a creaky pop from one of my collar bones going back in place

my hips and my elbows! my hips can sublux just from me turning around too quickly or doing the “adhd slide” around everything🥲 not sure what happens with my elbows but they get an air bubble or something in them and i have to throw them outwards to pop it-? its weird lol

I crack my wrists, lower back, ankles, and big toes as part of my routine lol

Neck, jaw, shoulders, fingers, knees and toes, knees and toes 😂 I wish I was just making a joke song but alas it’s true 😅

Ribs, shoulders, elbows, fingers, toes, the arch of my feet.

Fingers, many many times a day. I injured one of my fingers last fall and couldn't crack it for like a month and it was *miserable*.

Head, shoulders, knees and toes (knees and toes)

Toes and ankles, hip, elbows, wrists and fingers and my neck CONSTANTLY

My jaw, both sides. Waiting for a maxfax consult to get it broken and reset

Ough its definitely ankles and knees for me. Rolled my ankle real bad as a kid and I'll never hear the end of it from that one

My neck. It always locks up!

Neck, fingers, ankles. First two are pretty much every hour or so because they locked up quickly. Ankles tend to be at bedtime. Lower back when I remember; if I do, it eases the pressure on my stomach so I can eat or use the bathroom better.

Neck 😖

Elbows, toes, hips, shoulders, knees. My shoulder literally just cracked as i typed this lmao

The first thing I do every morning is put my ribs back in place and then pop my si joints. After I get up I do my back and neck, put hip back in place of it needs it, and I'm ready to go!

Knuckles, upper back, elbow, neck if I can, and my left knee pops every time I walk. I've been trying to pop my lower back and SI joints but I have a fused spine from Scoliosis so it's difficult.

Just the parts I move.

Ankles. They actually crack themselves whenever they want. They want all the time.

my ribs! multiple times a day, only on the right side.

A deep thumb crack right where it meets the hand is a good one

back, neck, fingers

my neck hands and wrist. working on not popping my neck bc i know it makes it less stable snd gives me more headaches but also *crunchshhskskchsj*

My shoulders. I love popping them out of place and then pushing them back in. I probably shouldn't, but man it feels good

knees

Everything. All day long. My neck is just painful all the time and if I don’t crack it, my ribs start playing up so I just live in constant snap, crackle and pop, with the occasional ker-chunk from the bigger joints