Alas, they pack my schedule even more, so EGN is still on the back burner, but no matter because I am blogging, just like I did here, same style and fashion, in two new places.

My studio is starting a boot camp, and I’m running the blog, which means EGN, only a different name: www.myrevolutionblog.wordpress.com. What’s it all about? Click the link to find out! (and if you are in the Bellevue/Seattle area, you can come workout with me, as Ill be helping instruct the camp!)

I am also guest blogging on the always informative, sometimes confusing www.the bodyfirm.biz/blog in Texas. Maybe if you guys hassle Dave, the owner, enough, he’ll watch his punctuation. (Kidding, Dave, if you read this. But seriously….)

Like I said, I will be blogging non-stop at My Revolution, so if you sent me a question that I never answered on EGN, resend it to me and I’ll answer it on My Revolution asap. And don’t forget to check me out at The Body Firm!

If you’ve noticed, I haven’t been posting much. I have a lot of stuff going on that makes for little free time, and of course, the blog suffers first (which I think is healthy, as opposed to letting real life fall to the back burner like hard core bloggers. I just dont have it in me.)

I’m moving, into a house (!!! real windows !!!) with two girl friends of mine (saying “girlfriends” makes me sound like an old lady) which is closer to my work, my parents and my boyfriend and a yard for PorkChop, so its definitely an improvement- it just happened really fast, so I’m trying to get out of my place by December 16. Plus, I have about 4 Thanksgivings, Im doing my continuing education classes to keep my training certificate valid, vacations, hour and a half workouts everyday plus more writing that I’ve ever had to do before- so Ill be in and out. Things should calm down soon, but I just wanted to let you guys know I didn’t forget about you, I know a ton of you have Q and A’s I haven’t gotten to you yet, and I’ll be back intermittently to answer them for you.

In the mean time, you can keep up with all my articles by following me on Twitter. Or, you can come to Costa Rica with me for my fitness retreat!

Mackenzie

You know, I HAVE NO IDEA. Well, I didn’t, so I looked it up. I have a shoulder and an elbow that crack pretty gnarly sometimes, but normally a lot of people’s knees crack with regular movement.

I DID know, however, that if your joints pop without your forcing them and it doesn’t hurt- you are fine, and don’t worry about it. If you force them to pop- that’s bad. And if it hurts when they pop- that’s bad.

I found a pretty good answer, and don’t really feel like summarizing it (I’m busy! Sue me) so here it is:

From HowStuffWorks:

Joints are the meeting points of two separate bones, held together and in place by connective tissues and ligaments. All of the joints in our bodies are surrounded by synovial fluid, a thick, clear liquid. When you stretch or bend your finger to pop the knuckle, you’re causing the bones of the joint to pull apart. As they do, the connective tissue capsule that surrounds the joint is stretched. By stretching this capsule, you increase its volume. And as we know from chemistry class, with an increase in volume comes a decrease in pressure. So as the pressure of the synovial fluid drops, gases dissolved in the fluid become less soluble, forming bubbles through a process called cavitation. When the joint is stretched far enough, the pressure in the capsule drops so low that these bubbles burst, producing the pop that we associate with knuckle cracking.

This doesn’t really answer this situation, though, because why do some areas pop on some people and not others.

I dug around a little more, and found that sometimes popping that occurs on its own is a sign of the joints hypermobility- the tendons and ligaments are not as tight, or as strong as they should be, so the joint slips larger on its own, without any force. So my shoulder and elbow are more hypermobile than the rest of me, as someone who’s knee pops is more hypermobile that the rest of their joints.

My elbow actually locks up sometimes, and I have to force it straight and it pops, but other times it does it on its own, so actually i dont know which it is.

Arthritis has not been proven to be a side effect of popping, but due to the stress it puts on the connective tissue, you can cause some soft tissue damage.

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