I watched a video about cranking neck where it could tear your blood vessels and form a blood clot which makes sense, but then how does this not happens more often? When we seems to get hurt from hitting something accidentally while in awhile
Learning about stroke help me understand how dangerous they can be with just one blood vessels get clogged and yet you see people hit each other in the head as a sport.
They also seems like a fragile wires so how can they withstand abuse is mystery to me, shouldn’t they burst out easily with some force?
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In regards to the story about cracking your neck causing a blood clot, this has happened in adults of various ages, the common point was that they *regularly* would attempt to crack their neck, and would often use either extra force or speed to achieve more cracking, through pushing with the arms or whipping the head back and forth.
Blood vessels and capillaries are really good at flexing, and withstand *single impacts* extremely well. However, if they’re subjected to extra force regularly over a long time, the walls of the vessels can begin to degrade and wear out. It becomes a ticking bomb (for as long as the cracking behavior continues) where each flex, even though they don’t vary in intensity, could be the one that causes the wall to fail.
I regularly crack my neck and only recently heard about this myself. Some articles are saying “no more than once a day should be okay, less is preferred”, but I do that shit hourly. I’m 29 and haven’t suffered anything yet, but I’m going to do my best to change my habits
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