Plainville Back Packs and Back Pain: A Chiropractic Topic

It’s back to school time again in Plainville! 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 talk about how the kids are to get all their stuff needed for homework back and forth from home if not in a backpack. There is a quandary for you! Ban homework?! Not likely! Layden Chiropractic understands and is here for those Plainville school kids (and older folks) who use backpacks and find themselves experiencing Plainville back pain. Layden Chiropractic has a treatment plan to relieve Plainville back pain!

The influence of Plainville backpacks on young people’s back pain incidence is genuine. There is a higher occurrence of Plainville low back pain when taking backpacks probably because of the increased forces in the spinal discs. (1) One Brazilian study shows 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 reported that greater than 60% of school kids 6 to 19 years of age in one study said they have 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 is more likely that the longer they carry the backpacks, 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 topic for the next backpack/back pain study! (3) Layden Chiropractic 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 experienced by adolescents who use book bags or backpacks. Plainville chiropractic care helps ease the back pain and help determine the influencing factors and means for back pain prevention.

Schedule a Plainville chiropractic appointment today to talk about back pain and backppack carrying. Plainville back pain relief is possible at Layden Chiropractic with Plainville chiropractic care!