# Anyone else's sternum crack?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 19, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-elses-sternum-crack/468649 "2008-10-19T18:58:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-elses-sternum-crack/468649/21 "2008-10-21T15:10:13Z")

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I pop mine all the time. Just a slight pressure from my fingers will cause it.

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**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-elses-sternum-crack/468649/22 "2008-10-21T15:40:31Z")

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Yes, I think it’s cool. If I draw a deep breath while pulling my shoulders back I can get a nice bowl of Rice Krispies happening. It seems I can use my superpower only once or twice per day though, usually in the evenings.

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**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-elses-sternum-crack/468649/23 "2008-10-21T16:16:52Z")

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> [@nd\_n8](#):
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> At some point during the day I will get a stiffness and sharp pain in my lower back. If I do a slow pelvic thrust I can feel / hear it crunching around in there. It’s not my hip joints, I know what they feel like when they pop and it’s not my spine, it’s too low for that. I don’t know for sure if it’s my pelvis or my coccyx (the crunching seems to spread out so it might be my pelvis) but afterwards I can bend over again.
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> But yeah, the cracking is taking place between my lower kidney area and about the middle of my butt cheeks so I’m basically cracking my crack.

I do this too. I sit in my office chair, extend my legs in front of me, and cross my ankles. Then I squeeze my butt cheeks together and straighten out my body, I can get a good adjustment of my pelvis. Sometimes when I’m driving, I will cross my ankles and squeeze my knees together to get a similar effect.

Once every year or so, I get the back of the head crack, too. Very disconcerting!

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