school backpack
It is important for parents to take note when they conduct the back to
school shopping for their children that the one essential item that
requires very special attention while selection is your child's school
backpack. The school backpack weight is becoming an increasing problem
for the students to bear. Many studies today have successfully proven that
heavy backpacks lead to both back pain and poor posture.
In fact, in the year 2001 heavy school backpacks were one of the major
causes for the 7,000 emergency room visits and the numerous complaints of
muscle spasms, neck and shoulder pain that were registered among the young
patients.
This painful trend that has surged among the young students isn't the least
bit surprising when one considers the fact that they carry disproportionate
amounts of weight in their school backpacks, which are often slung over just
one shoulder.
Most of the school children are often found carrying a quarter of their body
weight over their shoulders for a large portion of the day. This can be
compared to a 180-pound man carrying around a 45-pound load.
Thankfully, the school backpacks today have undergone a radical evolution.
Now a large number of them are designed to be ergonomic while remaining
fashionable. Children can not only pack their heavy schoolbooks, band
instruments and running shoes into these school backpack, but many students
even manage to tuck away popular electronics such as laptops, cellular
phones, MP3 players, CD players and personal digital assistants into these
specially designed compartments inside their school backpacks.
Bulging school backpacks pose a significant risk to children. Parents can
help in limiting this strain that is caused on the young necks, backs and
shoulders of their children.
Some Tips for Buying School Backpacks:
-Ensure that your child's backpack weighs no more than 10 percent of his or
her body weight.
-The school backpack should never hang more than 4 inches below the
waistline.
-A school backpack, which has individualized compartments helps position the
contents most effectively.
-A larger size of a backpack is not necessarily better.
-Encourage the child to wear both shoulder straps.
-Wide, padded straps in a school backpack are very important. Non-padded
straps are uncomfortable, and can dig into the child's shoulders.
-The shoulder straps of the backpack should be adjustable so it can be
fitted to the body of the child.
~ Author K. Bajaj. copyright data 2004 Indianchild.com
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