Steve Freides said:"John Hanson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:42:04 -0400, "Steve Freides"
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>>"Joe" <joe_g_g(spam)@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>>> I'm 22 and since I was 18 i've had joints that click and crack
>>> loads.
>>> It's not painful or anything but I've been doing light weights for
>>> past 6 months now and my right shoulder that clicks the most when
>>> doing wide rotations has started to hurt. I don't know if the pain
>>> is
>>> the muscle or liagment all I know is that my movement in it is
>>> becoming restricted, any advice?
>>
>>I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on television. 🙂
>>
>>The usual non-medicine therapy for joint clicks is to put the joint
>>through a full range of motion without weights for high repetitions.
>>This can break up deposits in the joint and restore a fuller range
>>of
>>motion without clicks. A general guideline is one repetition for
>>each
>>year of your age for healthy joints, and hundreds of repetitions for
>>problem joints.
>>
>>Some pops and clicks are caused by deposits in the joints, but
>>others
>>are tendons and the like snapping in ways they shouldn't, in which
>>case
>>increased flexibility and sometimes increased strength in opposing
>>muscles can help.
>>
> I've noticed that my left knee snaps after doing leg extensions (I
> do
> them about 4 times a year) and after I do either ATG front or back
> squats (20 rep squats). But, I experienced them tonight after doing
> rack squats with my normal PL wide stance after a triple at 475. I
> haven't done rack squats in over a year and a half but am wondering
> why this happens. I do get knee pain on occasion also but not when
> the knee snapping. The usually feel pretty good when that is
> happening. What's up with that?You did something you hadn't done in a while, so you've lost a bit of
the specific range of motion the movement requires. Unless there's a
medical indication to the contrary, returning to doing it regularly
might be all you need to make the problem go away. Hip and ankle
flexibility can play a part in this, too - if your hip or ankles are
tighter, it might be making your knee travel a slightly different
path.
IOW, you didn't move it, so you lost a bit of it - at least that's
what
it sounds like to me.Except that doesn't explain the fact that I get it all the time when I
do front squats and 20 rep back squats. Both of which are done ATG
and with a narrow stance. The rack squats (partial squats) are done
with the exact same stance as my regular squats.There's nothing magical about any particular squat form or rep scheme.
Some of easier on most knees than others but anything you don't do
regularly can still cause pops, squeaks, grinds, etc., if you haven't
done it for a while. My knees make more noise on ATG narrow squats than
they do on wide ones - it just means I should be doing more of them or
other joint work to get the kinks out, e.g., when I used to ride a bike
a lot, my knees were better.
But I do front squat and 20 rep squats quite regularly. One or the
other anyway.