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I found a good number of studies investigating the effects and practice of "knuckle cracking", but close to none on other sites of joint cracking/popping. knuckle cracking appears to be safe, but i don't know if the statement can be extended to other joints.

These are some of the papers i found, and they all refer to the habit of cracking one's knuckles: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36454151/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30080300/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28050816/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21383216/

Only the first paper mentions in passing "severe joint cracking of his knuckles and, at times, his back."
To clarify, i'm mostly interest in the habit of self-cracking, like one would do with their fingers, which has been found to have no ill-effects.

Is there any such evidence on back-cracking? habit of self-joint cracking in general

to clarify further: i'm not interested in chiropractice or their "techniques"

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  • Welcome. It may well be a geographical issue, but I've never heard the term "back cracking"; I suspect your search came short because of the term you use for the popping noise caused by (chiropractic) manipulation/adjustment of the back/other joints. Maybe searching for something akin to "When is adjustment/popping of a joint harmful?" or "Which joints are harmed by adjustment/popping?" will yield more information. Please note that this site requires evidence of a search (quote and link.) Thanks. (P.S. The source must be reliable; for-profit sources seldom are.)
    – anongoodnurse
    Commented Nov 24, 2023 at 14:30
  • Chiropractors are the providers who practice "back cracking." So the terms you should be looking for are "chiropractic adjustment" and "chiropractic manipulation." I doubt you'll find anything useful searching for "back cracking." As for safety, you should start with this.
    – Carey Gregory ♦
    Commented Nov 25, 2023 at 23:05
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    Apologies, i was in a bit of a hurry when i posted this the other day. I have provided more details and some search results. to answer to @anongoodnurse, i used that term because "cracking" is what i had previously found
    – kinbeat
    Commented Nov 27, 2023 at 7:53
  • "i'm not interested in chiropractice or their 'techniques'" Then you might, with luck, find a few case reports of harm done, but you won't find any studies due to the nature of the subject (manipulation done by ones self).
    – anongoodnurse
    Commented Nov 27, 2023 at 11:57

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