Back pain, neck pain, neck pain… “Out of around forty patients per day, at least one comes to see me after manipulations by an osteopath,” says Antoine Brinquin, a general practitioner who works in a trauma center in Vannes (Morbihan). ).
Osteos, public dangers?
The question is of course provocative, regarding recognized and regulated professionals.
But the behavior of some of them is denounced by the white coats, who see it as the source of pain or trauma.
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One of the most iconic is what we call “neck cracking.”
Synovial fluid, which lubricates the joints, is also present in a gaseous state.
Bubbles can form and, when they explode, you hear the famous “crack”.
“Cracking a knuckle is not risky as such, like cracking your knuckles.
But going beyond what the joint can accept is dangerous,” says Antoine Brinquin.
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