5 Horrible Things That Can Happen To Your Neck When You Crack It!

#1 – Neck Sprain

Do you know what happens inside your body and what causes that satisfying popping sound when you crack your neck?

When you crack your neck, your facet joints stretch, allowing synovial fluid, which lubricates your joints, to spread out in the joint capsule and become gas due to the low pressure in joint spaces. The gas bubbles around the joints cause the famous popping sound!

You shouldn’t worry too much when your neck or other parts of your body when they make a small popping sound after you spend a long time sitting around! The real risk is when you intentionally crack your neck.

Cracking your neck a lot and the force by which you crack it may cause you neck sprain, which occurs when the muscles or ligaments, the tissues that connect your bones, overstretch. Symptoms of neck sprain include pain in the back of your neck and shoulders that increases with movement, headache, dizziness, and numbness in your arms.

A sprained neck takes four to six weeks to heal depending on the severity of the sprain.