Fort Wayne Back Packs and Back Pain: A Chiropractic Topic
It’s back to school time again in Fort Wayne! And so are the backpacks. There is always a discussion about the influence of backpacks on back pain in young people. There is always discussion 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! Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc understands and is here for those Fort Wayne school kids (and older folks) who use backpacks and find themselves experiencing Fort Wayne back pain. Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc has a treatment plan to relieve Fort Wayne back pain!
The influence of Fort Wayne backpacks on young people’s back pain incidence is genuine. There’s a higher occurrence of Fort Wayne low back pain when carting backpacks probably because of the increased forces in the spinal discs. (1) One Brazilian study documents that 55.7% of 5th to 8th graders report back pain. The way they carry the backpack is pointed to as being a factor. (2) Another study done in Italy documented 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 type of statistic about girls having more intense back pain and more frequent back pain since25 they carry more stuff than boys? No. It seems that the longer they carry the backpacks, the more back pain they have. 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) Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc treats adolescents with back pain be it due to backpack carrying or other causes with gentle, effective chiropractic care incorporating Cox Technic.
Boys/Girls. Heavy backpack/light backpack. Long time carrying the bookbag/short time carrying the bookbag. All these various issues may well have a role in back pain felt by adolescents who use book bags or backpacks. Fort Wayne chiropractic care may help relieve the back pain and help figure out what is causing it and how to prevent it.
Schedule a Fort Wayne chiropractic appointment today to discuss back pain and backppack carrying. Fort Wayne back pain relief is possible at Cox Chiropractic Medicine Inc with Fort Wayne chiropractic care!
