Question
For about about two months, when I lower my head and raise up I get a grinding noise and sometimes popping sound.  I don't have any pain, but I am very concerned.  I also have ringing in both ears.  I don't know if this is connected or not.  Thanks Herb

Answer
Herb:

Thanks for writing!

The grinding noise comes because the bones in your neck have seperated one from the other and are not moving as a neck as they should. Each little bone is going its own way and is lost from the other bones.

The best was to fix it to to go to a good chiropractor and get them put back together. Go to www.sorsi.com, www.icak.com and www.soto-usa.com and look for a good chiropractor near you.

Here is an exercise you can do in the meantime.

The crunching in you neck is a sign that the bones are not fitting together as they should. The little piece of slick bone on one vertebrae (a neck bone) is not sitting down on the little slick piece of bone on the next vertebrae.

There is a home exercise you can do that will correct it. And it is this.

Standing or laying on your back, keep your face straight forward. Do not tilt the chin down or up. If you are lying on your back, move the face toward the ceiling is such a way that if it touched the ceiling, your face would be flat on the ceiling. If you are standing, move it straight forward in such a way that your forehead and chin would touch the wall in front of you at the same time. It has to go straight forward.

Holding that position, move your chin in a figure eight pattern. Imagine the wall is a piece of paper. You have a pencil sticking straight out from your chin. Use the tip of the pencil to write a "8" laying on its side. {}-{}. That is the closest I can get to showing the motion on this computer!

When done correctly, the neck will then make a crunching noise at the base of the skull. This is good. It will help your neck. It might not take the crunching sound out right away, but it will ensure that no damage is done and in fact will correct the problem if one persists in using it.

Does this answer you question?

If not, go to www.sorsi.com, www.icak.com and www.soto-usa.com and look for a good chiropractor near you. They cn go over the exercise with you. It if from Dr. DeJarnette's writing.

Dr. Rozeboom