Why do we get a popping sound with a chiropractic adjustment ?

Why do we get a popping sound with a chiropractic adjustment ?

Now we all now i love a food metaphor/analogy, so you have probably heard me say many a time that the popping sound is like popcorn popping , but this time its in the back rather than in the cinema - excuse me as my mind now wonders about buttery cinema popcorn

Now back to the research

When we thrust as chiropractors, one sided cavitation sounds were detected in over 90% of adjustments and the rest were bilateral sounds

The number of audible cavitations per adjustment was around 4 and the mean duration of an adjustment was 60.77ms

So dont freak out if you hear lots of sounds on your next session, its normal and EXPECTED !

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. 2017 Aug;12(4):642-654.

CAVITATION SOUNDS DURING CERVICOTHORACIC SPINAL MANIPULATION

James Dunning, Firas Mourad, Andrea Zingoni 1 , Raffaele Iorio 2 , Thomas Perreault 3 , Noah Zacharko, César Fernández de Las Peñas 4 , Raymond Butts, Joshua A Cleland