St Peters Back Packs and Back Pain: A Chiropractic Topic

August 29, 2017

It’s back to school time again in St Peters! And so are the backpacks. There is always a mild debate about the influence of backpacks on back pain in young people. There is always mild debate about how the kids are to get all their stuff necessary for homework back and forth from home if not in a backpack. There is a quandary for you! No more homework, maybe?! Not likely! Old Mill Chiropractic understands and is here for those St Peters school kids (and older folks) who use backpacks and find themselves experiencing St Peters back pain. Old Mill Chiropractic has a way to relieve St Peters back pain!

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

The influence of St Peters backpacks on young people’s back pain occurrence is real. There’s a higher occurrence of St Peters low back pain when taking backpacks probably because of the increased forces in the spinal discs. (1) One Brazilian study reports 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 showed that greater than 60% of school kids 6 to 19 years of age in one study reported back pain. Girls who used backpacks voiced 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’s more likely that the longer they cart the backpacks around, the more back pain they have. This may be thanks to anatomical, physiological and/or environmental differences between boys and girls. That makes another great subject for the next backpack/back pain study! (3) Old Mill Chiropractic 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 St Peters 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 felt by adolescents who use book bags or backpacks. St Peters chiropractic care may help ease the back pain and help figure out what’s causing it and how to prevent it.

Visit Old Mill Chiropractic 

Schedule a St Peters chiropractic appointment today to talk about back pain and backppack carrying. St Peters back pain relief is possible at Old Mill Chiropractic with St Peters chiropractic care!