Manchester Back Packs and Back Pain: A Chiropractic Topic

August 29, 2017

It’s back to school time again in Manchester! And out come the backpacks. There’s always a mild debate about just how harmful (or not!) back packs are back pain in young people. There is always mild debate about how the kids are to get all their stuff needed for homework back and forth from home if not in a backpack. There’s a quandary for you! Ban homework?! Not likely! Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries understands and is here for those Manchester school kids (and older folks) who use backpacks and find themselves experiencing Manchester back pain. Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries has a treatment plan to relieve Manchester back pain!

How Much Back Pain Do Kids Get? Boys Vs. Girls. 

The influence of Manchester backpacks on young people’s back pain occurrence is genuine. There is a higher occurrence of Manchester low back pain when carting backpacks probably due to the increased forces in the spinal discs. (1) One Brazilian study documents that 55.7% of 5th to 8th graders report back pain. An influencing factor is likely the way the back pack is carried. (2) Another study done in Italy showed that more than 60% of school kids 6 to 19 years of age in one study reported back pain. Girls who used backpacks expressed having more severe pain and more frequent back pain than boys. (3) Is this skewed statistic about girls having more intense back pain and more frequent back pain since25 they carry more stuff than boys? No. It is more likely that the longer they cart the backpacks around, the more back pain they experience. This may be due to anatomical, physiological and/or environmental differences between boys and girls. That makes another great topic for the next backpack/back pain study! (3) Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries treats adolescents with back pain be it due to backpack carrying or other causes with gentle, effective chiropractic care incorporating Cox Technic.

Relief for Backpack Manchester Back Pain  

Boys/Girls. Heavy backpack/light backpack. Long time carrying the bookbag/short time carrying the bookbag. All these various issues may well play a part in back pain experienced by adolescents who use book bags or backpacks. Manchester chiropractic care may help ease the back pain and help determine the influencing factors and means for back pain prevention.

Visit Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries 

Schedule a Manchester chiropractic appointment today to discuss back pain and backppack carrying. Manchester back pain relief is possible at Manchester Chiropractic & Sports Injuries with Manchester chiropractic care!