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Covaan_Meshuga -> Sr Citizen, Popping Joints, and Severe Joint Problems (5/21/2008 2:29:32 AM)
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Okay. Popping knuckles, but not just the common ones kids pop. Here's the deal:
I have an injury to both thumbs, the left far more severe than the right, from a repeated action I stopped doing over a year ago. The thumbs continued to hurt and have a deep burning sensation down into the fatty area below the thumb.
Later, the left one's first joint began to stop when I would try to bend it for common use. How shall I describe that? I bend it, but rather than bending smoothly, it kind of stops, like when one snaps (a feeling, not a sound) a plastic purse shut.
After that, I would wake in the night to find my left thumb bent at the first joint, hurting, and it would take strong, firm pressure with my other hand to open it again. It felt like it was going to stay bent, if I didn't do something about it.
So I started wrapping it daily in medical tape, to keep my thumb straight. I did this a couple weeks, then only at night for another week.
I got to thinking about my chiropractor, who would pop certain joints, and when they popped, she would say, "There! That will get the beneficial juices flowing in those joints!" So I started trying to pop my first thumb joints, then the main thumb joints.
At first, they would not pop, which was interesting, because they popped easily when I was young. After a few weeks of this, the first joints began to pop, then finally, the second joint on my right hand popped once. Today, for the first time, I think my second joint on my left thumb (the worse) made a tiny pop. I think it is helping, but I wonder what you know.
When I was a child, we were warned not to pop knuckles, because it would cause arthritis. It seems that possibly my chiropractor might disagree. Do you know anything about this? Do you have any other suggestions?
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