ppl @ my gym crack each other's back all the time. i heard it was rly bad for you though. is that true?

do they do it where one person lies on the floor with arms down on their side and then the other person like pushes down their back? a lot of girls do that at my gym too! sometimes they actually do get a crack...yuck! or maybe they do the cracking by standing behind each other and then like 'hugging' and pulling them up from the back and then ur back cracks like that? u know what i mean? i heard it's bad to put direct pressure on the spine. cracking is relieving air pressure, but forced cracking like that seems bad to me too! like cracking ur knuckles. i don't do it, but back massage is good! :D

yeah any way they can find 2 crack their backs, they'll do it! personally, i think it's unhealthy but yeah i looooooovvvvee a good back massage!

ya totally, back massage is great! i don't do the back cracking like that either. it seems ok if ur back cracks itself from u stretching urself, like sometimes in the first giant over esp. on straps, or just sometimes when u feel like ur back has built up pressure or something, u can just hang from the bar or just kind of arch ur back a little backwards, it stretches it out and does get a small cracking noise sometimes. stretching for the purpose of getting that cracking noise i don't think is good tho.

ohmigoodness! it seems like every time i go on floor to tumble my back cracks! and my ankles! but w/e no biggie. it bugs me tho