Joint Pain and Cracking

My hips pop when I do any movement where I am on my back and moving my legs. I adjust the angle of my hips until it stops. Usually it stops when I tilt my pelvis up a bit? Hard to explain but play around with it. And I don't bring my legs out as far.

My knees pop and click too, so when I'm doing high intensity workouts I make sure if I'm doing say a squat, the angle between my thighs and knees never goes below 90 degrees. I have to adjust some of my Insanity movements for this reason, like the in and out abs I don't bring my knees in as far so that I maintain that 90 degrees.

Don't over extend your legs either.

I adjust my body and the exercise to prevent this popping/clicking instead of pushing through to do the exercise. It sounds disgusting and it's painful...

Make sure you stretch a lot too. My knee caps will actually grind if I don't stretch enough because my muscles are not pulling at equal tensions. Stretching solves this.

My joints pop and crack all over my body. When I was seeing the specialist doc about my carpal tunnel, he diagnosed me with having some weird joint thing that I can't remember the name of lol. My joints are just looser than normal people, more flexible because of it, and prone to cracking and popping, prone to sprains and strains as well.

Being 71 years old my joints sound like Kellogs Rice Krispies. They snap crackle and pop due to Psoriatic Arthritis. I take Osteo-BiFlex with MSM and 5 Loxin for the Arthritis and it is a fantastic help. My Rheumatologist tells me to just keep taking it. I take one a day. Been taking it for 20 years. If you look for coupons and by on the B1G1 you can get a pretty good deal. I also take Humira shots twice a month for my Psoriasis. It is really helping.

Hi Everyone,

Was wondering if anyone shares a similar issue. My joints are always cracking/popping involuntarily. Every time I crouch down to pick something up, *crack,* every time I bend over *crack*. It's usually my hips and knees. I don't know if it has anything to do with me growing up as a competitive dancer for about 12 years, because friends of mine that I danced with have this problem as well. It tends to mess with me as I exercise, for example, if I lay on my back to do bicycles... my left hip clicks (always feel it, can't always hear an actual sound) very time I extend it my left leg in the bicycle motion. Or if I stand and do side bends while bringing my knee up on each side... my knee will pop every time I straighten my leg. It usually tends to be my left hip and right knee.

I also have intense pain in my left hip whenever I stand after sitting for an extended period of time in a chair. To the point where I actually limp. On a side note, I am only 26 years old.

I do know that last time I had blood work done, it showed I am deficient in vitamin D. I've increased my intake but still the same issue. I have had an x-ray done on my hips but it's shown nothing. Any advice?

One more thing: actual *pain* = doctor visit. Especially if you describe it as intense.

I would get checked for hypermobilty or Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome have a look here http://hypermobility.org

I have EDS, too, and my knees have sounded terrible since I was in high school. They kept getting worse, unfortunately, where pain entered the picture more and more. When I was finally diagnosed with problems from EDS, I found out that my kneecaps don't track right and never have. They are extremely hypermobile. So I've been grinding down the bone without knowing it for all these years.

For me (at 43 now), I just have to avoid a lot of things I'd rather not avoid. For someone as young as you, there would be braces and things to wear during exercise/sports that could really help a joint that is suffering from something like that (thinking of your knees). It was super easy for a doctor to see how hypermobile my kneecaps are, but nobody had ever tried it before. I guess I'm saying go to a very good doctor and really let him/her know that you want a thorough examination, especially of that hip. Some docs will try to brush you off due to your youth, but try not to let them!

I've had 2-3 physical therapists who did really in-depth exams like that, so that's an idea if a doctor still can't figure out why yours hurts. The initial exam appointment doesn't cost as much as you might think, in case your insurance won't cover PT, and it can tell you so much about structural problems.

Good luck!