Do you creak / crack ???

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Not really equestrian related but in a way it is.

With all the labour work I do here on the yard and before in the yards I have been in over the past 30+ years and longer. I cannot get up and start getting dressed or move about the house trying to keep quiet. Without my knees going crack without warning then my ankle and so onwith every stride, I sound like I am going collapse in a broken heap on the floor like a bridge in the film * Cassandra Crossing.!!!

Anyone else???
 
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Oh yes I creak and crack , however at least it means things are moving perhaps if it stops we would be completely rigid .
 
My feet/ankles crack as I walk, and when I drive the horse box I go lame on my right hind for a few days!! :D I have physio every 3 months otherwise I feel like I'm broken in half.

Worst part is I'm not even 23!! :o
 
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My feet/ankles crack as I walk, and when I drive the horse box I go lame on my right hind for a few days!! :D I have physio every 3 months otherwise I feel like I'm broken in half.

Worst part is I'm not even 23!! :o
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It's funny how we use horsey terminology to describe our own body parts, especially to non horsey folk and they're just like huh? :D
 
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I am like a half shut knife in the mornings. Coffee and "breakfast" of painkillers and I'm good to go!
 
I don't crack at all, but boy am I stiff first thing in the morning. Luckily it all wears off in ten minutes. I've got a lot better since I started working out on the elliptical trainer.
 
i am only 30 and havnt been able to stand up without both my knees cracking very loudly for last 5/6 years maybe longer, everybody takes the mick out of me for it and im really self conscious about it and if ive had to kneel down well, i just cant because my knees just wont let me get back up, they just sieze up!
 
my knees used to click all the time during a too long break from riding - since I started again I'm pretty much click & creak free.
Riding & all the work horse ownership needs is great for fitness in general, but (especially) as we get older some targeted work really helps. A few minutes of stretching can make a real difference. We all prepare our horses but too often don't spend that few minutes on ourselves. I'm not talking roll out the yoga mat by the mounting block but just a few minutes stretching before (& after) riding can make such a difference. It's a sport after all & we should treat ourselves as any athlete would - to save pain in the long run (pardon the pun)
 
It takes me a while to stand up when getting out of bed in the morning, or even if I spend too long in a chair. I creak and crack and am starting to not be able to get up two flights of stairs at work without having a breather in the middle. And the doctor tells me I should get more exercise - yeah right. I'm now 60 and falling apart at the seams, yet my grandmother could touch her toes at 98 :(
 
I'm the wrong side of 50 and rather than creak and crack, I seize up! It happens if I stand or sit in one place for too long.

I also have to do the sock dance in the mornings, and if I drop something on the floor before my body has had a chance to unfurl itself, there it has to stay!

My husband was teasing me as he's more limber than I am (even though he's 3 years older), as he rows and cross trains a fair bit. He has his fair share of aches and pains, but not the seizing up issues that I've acquired!

Working with horses does not help!
 
If I sit for too long I look like a good illustration of the evolution of man as I get up!!!
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HA HA HA That looks like me too. Also, I have a clicking ankle and a creaking knee and pretty sure tennis elbow in each and a really b*ggered shoulder. My philosophy is as long as it doesn't stop me riding I can live with it - I'm 55 BTW and I think in pretty good shape compared to many of my peers :)
 
Its a medical condition, when I when I to see consultant she explained why she asked if knee cracked [it doesn't], but my left shoulder does. apparently its an indication of slack joints, not a problem in itself.
 
I have the biggest issues with my jaw cracking and popping. I think I may be a secret teeth grinder...
 
I'm just the same except not in the mornings, all the time! I have hypermobility which is a problem to do with my ligiments and I'm affected mostly in my ankles and knees which are the joints that crack the most on me. I'm currently undergoing physiotherapy for a knee that dislocates and I have to squat as part of this. One of my knees or ankles cracks virtually every single time I do one. I always feel like something should have broken by the sound it makes :p
 
I fall out of bed, struggle to stand, stagger outside and feed horses in a kind of semi comatose alkheimer type state, can`t spell that, or maybe that condition is the cause I can`t spell it, return to bed with breakfast, to keep knees warm. but when I finally get on board a horse everything works perfectly, as I`m too lazy to ride any horse that needs anything more than a gentle touch and does not respond accordingly with great energy
at one time I had an elbow with an loud click, but it has disappeared, the click not the elbow
 
I think it's my right hip and knee, every time I get up for the middle of the night wee, they go off like a starting pistol! There's no pain, it's just ridiculously loud as I'm trying to unobtrusively creep out of the room! I'm hoping it's more to do with synovial fluid than a problem.

If I've been sitting for a while, I find it hard to walk properly at first, but that's more to do with the accident and the fact that I've stopped all the moisturising, I just can't be bothered. :redface3: so the skin is too tight.
 
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