Millville Back Packs and Back Pain: A Chiropractic Topic

It’s back to school time again in Millville! 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 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! Wilson Family Chiropractic understands and is here for those Millville school kids (and older folks) who use backpacks and find themselves experiencing Millville back pain. Wilson Family Chiropractic has a treatment plan to relieve Millville back pain!

The influence of Millville backpacks on young people’s back pain occurrence is real. There’s a higher occurrence of Millville low back pain when carrying backpacks likely due to the increased forces in the spinal discs. (1) One Brazilian study documents 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 greater than 60% of school kids 6 to 19 years of age in one study said they have back pain. Girls who carried 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 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 due to anatomical, physiological and/or environmental differences between boys and girls. That makes another great topic for the next backpack/back pain study! (3) Wilson Family 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 different issues may well play a role in back pain experienced by adolescents who use book bags or backpacks. Millville chiropractic care helps relieve the back pain and help determine the influencing factors and means for back pain prevention.

Schedule a Millville chiropractic appointment today to talk about back pain and backppack carrying. Millville back pain relief is promising at Wilson Family Chiropractic with Millville chiropractic care!