Michael1942's Blog

The progress of life brings many things. Among these are the wisdom of age, the ability to advise and the associated aches and pains. All of us have the creaks and groans the body makes as we age. We involuntarily make certain sounds as we wake and rise, get up from a chair or move. These sounds are just a normal part of moving with the stiffness that come with age. Our joints and muscles begin to lose their resilience and fluidity of movement from day one (1). When we were young daredevils and full of energy, we participated in sports and other physical activities whose results have now come home to roost. Do you think the cereal was named after these noises? As older  people we now have snaps. groans and rumbles that did not exist (or we never noticed) when we were young. Pay attention to your noises , that’s your body talking to you. An example that all of us probably know is the sound of cracking knuckles, this is caused by the air in the synovial fluid that surround the joints, this can occur in any and all joints with or without additional assistance (as in cracking the knuckles). When you get a hitch, pinch or pop, it’s just the body doing what it has done forever and we didn’t notice until we got old.