Click when swallowing

[blk133]

Hello,

I was wondering if someone could help me.  For a few weeks now I have this click in my throat when I swallow.  Not when I am drinking water or eating, but just during normal swallowing.  It doesn't click when my head is down or up, but it clicks when I am looking straight.  If I put my fingers just above adams apple I can feel a click.

Please help me to identify what it could be.

Thank you,
B

[silvercat1]

Thank you ClickingNeck. Your suggestion correlates with head position when I swallow. At certain head positions, the cartilage structures possibly align in a position such that when the swallow mechanism starts, there is that impact which is perceived as crunching, maybe cartilage crepitus. It also occurs just immediately after clearing throat on the first few swallows. It still continues.

[charlotte1824]

This is a bit late as I see comment was from years ago but please check out eagles syndrome, elongated styloid which can happen after having tonsils removed, do u also feel like something is stuck in ur throat?

[miles012]

If anybody finds a cure or reason to this problem please let me know. I have had blood work done and a few second opinions but nothing. I actually feel like the doctors are avoiding my problem. They only thing that have said is maybe some kind of reflux. Really tired of the problem

[ClickingNeck]

Just to let everyone know, the advice Jocmaxum23 got from his chiropractor did work for me but the click came back.  Maybe if I do it more often or more regularly it could cure it or maybe my click is just worse than his was.

[ClickingNeck]

It might not be the rhomboid muscle that you are feeling.  The nerve roots for your arm and shoulder are in your neck, so if you developed the clicking at the same time as the rhomboid pain this may be the cause.  The next time you get the rhomboid pain, have somebody grab your head and pull upwards on it.  If that makes the pain go away and then it comes back when they release your head, the problem is in your neck and not your shoulder.  

[greg904]

http://www.livestrong.com/article/496030-mylohyoid-exercises/

http://www.livestrong.com/article/495379-suprahyoid-exercises/

http://www.livestrong.com/article/159600-stretches-for-the-omohyoid-muscle/

http://www.livestrong.com/scalene-muscles/

http://www.livestrong.com/article/124223-forward-head-posture-symptoms/

http://www.livestrong.com/article/490112-suboccipital-exercises/

But I think shoulder position is more important and back rowing exercises and stretches