Minster Back Packs and Back Pain: A Chiropractic Topic

It’s that time of year again in Minster: back to school! And out come the backpacks. There is always a mild debate about the influence of backpacks on back pain in young people. There is always mild debate 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! Minster Chiropractic Center understands and is here for those Minster school kids (and older folks) who use backpacks and find themselves experiencing Minster back pain. Minster Chiropractic Center has a treatment plan to relieve Minster back pain!

The influence of Minster backpacks on young people’s back pain occurrence is real. There’s a higher occurrence of Minster low back pain when carting backpacks probably due to the increased forces in the spinal discs. (1) One Brazilian study reports 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 more 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 skewed statistic about girls having more intense back pain and more frequent back pain since25 they carry more stuff than boys? No. It’s more likely that the longer they carry the backpacks, 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 topic for the next backpack/back pain study! (3) Minster 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. Minster chiropractic care helps ease the back pain and help figure out what’s causing it and how to prevent it.

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