my partner didn't crack my back before bed last night and now it is sore and there is no one to crack it for me here bc it would probably be weird to walk up to a coworker and be like 'hey you're tall wanna bear-hug me real hard until my spine crunches'
@nickchapman from the front. I can do my lower back by twisting in a chair, so it's the upper that needs it - which usually means they have to pick me up :P there's just no one here I want to get in such close quarters with tbh
@cmdrspacebabe gotcha. that certainly is a factor. i don't think my coworker wanted to, exactly, but was in enough discomfort to request it anyway. good luck finding someone to pop you!
i just tried method one option 1 and think it actually worked -- maybe not as good as someone else. the chair one (option 2) looks dangerous.
http://www.wikihow.com/Crack-Your-Upper-Back
@nickchapman I used to do the 2nd one all the time in school, when the chairs were the right height :P office chairs, not so much. I just grab the chair and twist my torso. Always grosses people out cuz it cracks like a machine gun - usually at least 5 or 6 audible pops, sometimes more. I have a ligament disorder so my spine/joints are kinda messed up - they crack loudly and frequently.
@cmdrspacebabe I'm annoying with my finger-popping and sometimes feel like I annoy people. Some people really cringe...so I try to crack in moderation.
Best of luck!
@nickchapman I crack my hand-joints in up to 6 different ways - wrists, thumbs backwards and forwards, 1st knuckle backwards and forwards, and 2nd knuckle. I get a lot of grossed-out looks when I unthinkingly start doing it in meetings haha.
@cmdrspacebabe Do you have a foam roller at home? I bought a $20 foam roller on amazon and it is the best part of my day. My back makes all sorts of satisfying crunchy noises and feelings when I roll on up and down on it.
@vjgoh that sounds amazing, i should definitely get one
@cmdrspacebabe There are many different options, but I bought this slightly squishier one and I'm super pleased with it. https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B003GX44R8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
@cmdrspacebabe Wait...people don't do this.
@MxJenDurbent I'm very much not a touchy person and don't particularly feel like getting a full-body bear hug from some dude I barely know :P the only people in my office tall enough to crack the right spot are guys and I don't know any of them well enough to be comfortable with it.
@MxJenDurbent When my partner does it he has to lift me off the ground and lean back to get the right angle so it's a little too, uh, intimate for me to want to do with any of my coworkers lmao
@cmdrspacebabe Oh I get it. :-) But sometimes people ask me...less now. <shrug>
@MxJenDurbent I'm not tall enough to crack for other people :p I just don't like touching people I don't know well, generally.
@cmdrspacebabe a coworker asked me the other day and i helped him out -- a little awkward, but got the job done. you hug normal, or facing away? my wife's back cracks better when she faces away.