Largo Back Packs and Back Pain: A Chiropractic Topic

It’s that time of year again in Largo: back to school! And so are the backpacks. There is always a discussion about just how harmful (or not!) back packs are back pain in young people. There is always discussion about how the kids are to get all their stuff needed for homework to and from from home if not in a backpack. There is a quandary for you! Ban homework?! Not likely! Hollstrom & Associates Inc understands and is here for those Largo school kids (and older folks) who use backpacks and find themselves experiencing Largo back pain. Hollstrom & Associates Inc has a treatment plan to relieve Largo back pain!

The influence of Largo backpacks on young people’s back pain occurrence is real. There is a higher occurrence of Largo low back pain when carrying backpacks likely due to the increased forces in the spinal discs. (1) One Brazilian study shows 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 reported that more than 60% of school kids 6 to 19 years of age in one study reported back pain. Girls who carried backpacks expressed having more severe pain and more frequent back pain than boys. (3) Is this skewed statistic about girls having more intense back pain and more frequent back pain because they carry more stuff than boys? No. It seems that the longer they cart the backpacks around, the more back pain they experience. 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) Hollstrom & Associates 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 different issues may well play a role in back pain felt by adolescents who carry book bags or backpacks. Largo chiropractic care helps ease the back pain and help figure out what’s causing it and how to prevent it.

Schedule a Largo chiropractic appointment today to discuss back pain and backppack carrying. Largo back pain relief is promising at Hollstrom & Associates Inc with Largo chiropractic care!