Hey guys, in recent days, I’m clicking a lot. My ankles, knees and shoulders are like click-fest (I’m just waiting for my elbows to start). I don’t know what’s the problem, I was always a bit shaky (my shoulders were always like this). I had a mild case of jumper’s knee but it was from a lot of running. I feel no pain, except slight discomfort in my left knee, no strength loss also.
Today was deadlift day, and all the videos I did a loud cracking sound is heard (my knees) so I’m a bit worried. Should I check with the doctor? Ease out on the squating? (I front squat once a week (3x5) and bulgarian split squat once a week)
Yes clicking joints usually are not normally painful and it may be that you have over-trained and caused some soft tissue inflammations around your joints.
First thing to do is check on water intake. Do you drink at least 8 glasses of pure water a day? You need to drink JUST plain water to replenish the fluids surrounding your joints. Dehydration is the #1 cause of joint pain. Your urine should be a pale yellow color, if it’s dark then you are dehydrated.
Second, it might be chronic inflamation… Biotest offer a very good fish oil (which i must get :P) or else really bump up your fish oil dosage to high levels for a while see if that sorts it out.
And my final offering to you is, you could try a homeopathic medicine - ruta - get a 12c strength from the chemist and suck one twice a day for a couple of weeks and see if this helps to settle it. This is completely safe.
My knees used to click all the time, without pain…then I started doing fascial and PNF stretches regularly and foam rolling the ITB. Now, very little clicking.
Yeah all the refined sugar is rotting your teeth and joints?!?! Up the fish oil, stretch, workout any imbalances. The clicking and cracking usually comes with the territory, I guarantee almost everyone here has had it at one time or another.
My ankles crack all the time going upstairs ever stair and they never hurt. I haven’t found anything to stop the cracking. I’ve taken fish oils and joint supplement (not to purposefully prevent them to crack but of other reasons) and they’ve done nothing. Pretty much the doctor will tell you “When they start to crack with pain, come back to see me”
And I drink 4-6L of water a day and that hasn’t prevented them from cracking lol…
[quote]ucallthatbass wrote:
Yeah all the refined sugar is rotting your teeth and joints?!?! Up the fish oil, stretch, workout any imbalances. The clicking and cracking usually comes with the territory, I guarantee almost everyone here has had it at one time or another. [/quote]
My bad.eat tons of that stuff, cause its good for everything.
[quote]SmallToBig wrote:
Yes clicking joints usually are not normally painful and it may be that you have over-trained and caused some soft tissue inflammations around your joints.
First thing to do is check on water intake. Do you drink at least 8 glasses of pure water a day? You need to drink JUST plain water to replenish the fluids surrounding your joints. Dehydration is the #1 cause of joint pain. Your urine should be a pale yellow color, if it’s dark then you are dehydrated.
Second, it might be chronic inflamation… Biotest offer a very good fish oil (which i must get :P) or else really bump up your fish oil dosage to high levels for a while see if that sorts it out.
And my final offering to you is, you could try a homeopathic medicine - ruta - get a 12c strength from the chemist and suck one twice a day for a couple of weeks and see if this helps to settle it. This is completely safe.