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Essentially what's happened is that one of your vertebrae has popped out of alignment, which causes the pain. I used to have it happen all the time with my L3 vertebrae, which is now fused like the rest of my lower spine. "Cracking" it pops it back into place, which then eases the pain as it puts the spine back into alignment. A Chiropractor does the same thing, but with more gentle movements to ease it back into place.

The risk of doing it yourself or having someone do it for you who isn't qualified is that it can weaken the disk membrane of the disk between the vertebrae that has popped out and the disks that are adjacent. If you're too rough on putting it back in, you can set yourself up for a disk herniation and worse problems down the road.

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