Lynchburg Back Packs and Back Pain: A Chiropractic Topic

It’s that time of year again in Lynchburg: back to school! And out come the backpacks. There’s always a discussion about just how harmful (or not!) back packs are back pain in young people. There’s always discussion about how the kids are to get all their stuff needed for homework back and forth from home if not in a backpack. There’s a quandary for you! No more homework, maybe?! Not likely! Palmer Chiropractic Center understands and is here for those Lynchburg school kids (and older folks) who use backpacks and find themselves experiencing Lynchburg back pain. Palmer Chiropractic Center has a treatment plan to relieve Lynchburg back pain!

The influence of Lynchburg backpacks on young people’s back pain occurrence is genuine. There’s a higher occurrence of Lynchburg low back pain when taking backpacks likely because of the increased forces in the spinal discs. (1) One Brazilian study reports 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 documented that greater 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 type of statistic about girls having more intense back pain and more frequent back pain because they carry more stuff than boys? No. It’s more likely that the longer they cart the backpacks around, the more back pain they have. This may be due to anatomical, physiological and/or environmental differences between boys and girls. That makes another great subject for the next backpack/back pain study! (3) Palmer Chiropractic Center 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 play a part in back pain experienced by adolescents who carry book bags or backpacks. Lynchburg chiropractic care may help ease the back pain and help determine the influencing factors and means for back pain prevention.

Schedule a Lynchburg chiropractic appointment today to discuss back pain and backppack carrying. Lynchburg back pain relief is possible at Palmer Chiropractic Center with Lynchburg chiropractic care!