What causes Clicking or Popping in Throat when Swallowing?

Posted by mushroom @mushroom, Oct 2, 2020

I was doing some neck massages a few days ago and then afterwards whenever I swallow, I feel a clicking/popping sensation and sound when my larynx moves up upon swallow. There is no pain at the moment but the popping sensation in my throat gives me anxiety whenever I swallow. Is this the result of the cartilage rubbing on each other? Is it from the hyoid bone rubbing the thyroid cartilage? Are there exercises that can fix this?

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Jul 14 1:59pm

In reply to @kmd01 "Check this out as it may prove useful. https://www.stepcommunity.com/pages/about-step" + (show)

Hi @kmd01, have you managed a swallowing disorder with a speech-language pathologist, education and training? How are you doing now?

kmd01 | @kmd01 | Jul 14 3:24pm

Hi Colleen,
I have had minor issues in the past but currently nothing, such as the individual whom I provided the comment for based on the link I provided. I appreciate your response.

dan1912 | @dan1912 | Jul 22 12:37pm

Three days ago I went to a chiropractor to have my neck adjusted. He gave me two exercises to do because I was getting mild headaches behind my eyes from the adjustment. The one exercise showed me how to put my right hand over the back of my head and gently pull my head close to my arm pit to stretch the muscles in my neck. I did this exercise three times with 20 second intervals. The next day when I swallowed saliva, water, food I had this loud popping noise every time! I put my finger under my chin and slightly to the right and felt the pop noise push out of this area. The popping noise has subsided a little bit; but the oddest part of all of it is that if I very slightly move my head to the left, there is no popping noise when I drink or swallow food. This feeling is so extremely frustrating to me. I never know when it's going to pop again. Needless to say, I stopped the neck exercises. I think I may have pull down on my neck too much.