In 7th grade there was this dude who would ... wait for it... crack his back during class.
Everyone would hear it.
The people behind him would see someone turn 180 degrees. Twice. Then he'd go back to listening like nothing happened.
Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
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Re: Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
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Is it a theory, I thought it was exactly what causes it. The stretching depressurizes the liquidy thing in the joints and that causes dissolved gases to bubble out of solution in nucleation points. It's not really gas build up, but more like opening a can of coke, the pressure drop causes the equilibrium to shift and brings dissolved gases out of solution. At least that's what I thought it was.
But how does this gas or new gas get back into the liquid resulting in new pressure?
Generic life processes? Everything is dissolved you know, including the oxygen and carbon dioxide from respiration. Nitrogen too, though it's not really very useful. The fact that it's all dissolved is how divers get the bends. As the pressure lowers gases drop out of solution and form bubbles, clogging arteries.
Re: Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not talking about athletes. I'm talking about the people who own the teams, they invest in chiropractors. People who are thinking about the ultimate economic benefit of an investment into a human body, not the athletes themselves.
People who realize that if their athlete believes it'll make them better, and it doesn't actually hurt them most of the time, there's value in indulging them.
I suppose you can find conspiracies and scams everywhere if you want to not look very hard
Re: Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
People who realize that if their athlete believes it'll make them better, and it doesn't actually hurt them most of the time, there's value in indulging them.
I suppose you can find conspiracies and scams everywhere if you want to not look very hard
We're talking about a field that is well documented to have been started by an absolute charlatan who believed in magical "subluxations" causing basically all diseases.
We know by all objective measures that the entire idea is a level of nonsense that's almost religious in scale, which is a great analogy because it similarly demonstrates how "lots of people believe in it" is an absolutely meaningless argument.
Re: Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
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A physical therapist costs significantly more, which is why a lot of chiropractors in rural areas with a lot of manual labor are well looked upon. They are mostly just practicing physical therapy without a medical license which could get them in trouble if it wasn't considered chiropractic work. The pure quackery doesn't get them as far because most of their customers are too poor to regularly spend on woowoo crap. I…
> The pure quackery doesn't get them as far because most of their customers are too poor to regularly spend on woowoo crap. Yeah, but them very same type of folks (like where I grew up in "rancher territory") who can't (or won't) regularly spend on "woowoo crap" will happily budget a reasonable monthly (or even weekly) fee for a bit of good advice, some stretching exercises and "adjustments", and a bit of basic appli…
As someone who lives in a small, rural town... I assure you that's not true. There's a HUGE customer base for "woowoo crap": Bored housewives (many of whom have token jobs like realtor or school substitute).
Re: Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
A physical therapist costs significantly more, which is why a lot of chiropractors in rural areas with a lot of manual labor are well looked upon. They are mostly just practicing physical therapy without a medical license which could get them in trouble if it wasn't considered chiropractic work. The pure quackery doesn't get them as far because most of their customers are too poor to regularly spend on woowoo crap. I…
> They are mostly just practicing physical therapy without a medical license Oh, well as long as they're only practicing medicine without a license, I suppose that's okay then...
Medical != medicine. Physical therapists provide therapeutic interventions. Doctors of Medicine (M.D.) practice medicine. This is why they can prescribe medicine. Same with Doctors of Medicine in Dentistry (D.M.D., also known as Dentists).
Psychiatrists are also Doctors of Medicine and can prescribe medicine. Other mental health professionals (Licensed Professional Therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Psychologist) are not and provide therapeutic interventions.
EDIT: I just realized I'm coming at this from a USA-centric point of view. I have no idea how this applies to other places.