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does your elbow pop/crunch in the little groove where your "funnybone" is? I can crunch it there. advice, dont do that. you really have to force it to pop it, dont you? stop doing it. the pop is a nitrogen relase or something, and is the same as a knuckle pop, then if it crunches, you are grinding your joints, and tearing scar tissue that develops in the elbow area from overuse, etc. I have the same thing.

Its hard to say why your shoulder is popping with every arm circle.

give me a breif history of throwing. Are you a pitcher, outfielder, infielder? prior injuries? does it hurt to do this? rear shoulder, front/rotator cuff area?

the catcher, and midinfield(short arm) have a different arm motion than the pitchers/corners/and outfield(long arm motions).

also, how old are you?




there are a few reasons your shoulder would pop

1) you have a goofy growth in the rotator cuff,
2 something is broken(highly unlikeley)
3) your rotator cuff is over developed
4) your rotator cuff is under developed
5) your rotator cuff is torn
6) your rotator cuff is naturally abnormal
usually this kind of "pop" noise from doing shoulder rotations(assuming you do them in "T" position) is from the bones in the shoulder rubbing together. put your two pointer fingers together and push up with one, and down with the other. you should get a weird "pop" or "bump" noise. thats what your shoulder probably is doing.

also, how do you do your arm circles? big circles at a fast pace? slow circles at a slow pace, small with fast? how? do you just let your arms fly, or are they centered and controlled circles with focus on warming the muscles? dont ever "windmill" your arms. Especially if you are warming up.



take it from me, me being an All-State pitcher, warm up is more improtant than anything. do your warm up excercises slow, (not too slow) and controlled with your focus on warming the muscles. Do them with an ever so slight flex in the muscles you are focusing on.