backpacks – Pain Management Trends

Health Tips For Kids Packing a Backpack

This entry was posted in Expert Advice and tagged back pain backpacks chronic pain cumulative injuries health and wellness Musculoskeletal Pain Relief Non-Surgical Orthopaedics on September 9, 2012 by Non Surgical Orthopaedics

Kids already assume a heavy burden when they return to school in the fall, so don’t make it worse with a heavy backpack. The American Academy of Pediatrics offers these suggestions to help reduce your child’s chances of pain and injury: Make sure your child’s pack has a padded back and wide shoulder straps […]

Lighten the load—of your child’s backpack!

This entry was posted in Expert Advice and tagged back pain back to school backpacks book bags health health and wellness heavy backpacks heavy book bags low back pain non-surgical back pain wellness on November 24, 2010 by Non Surgical Orthopaedics

Each day, you send your child off to school. You make sure he has his lunch, homework and books—which are all placed in his backpack. Once the backpack is loaded, out the door he goes.