The school bag has been at the receiving end of a lot of criticism in the past years as it is blamed for the child's poor posture. But now, a leading expert says that walking or cycling while carrying a school bag helps the child improve his/her spinal muscle strength and endurance.
In the latest Australian Journal of Physiotherapy, Professor Leon Straker of Curtin University, Western Australia, is urging parents to load up their teenager's backpack and make them walk to school.
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Kyphosis is a spinal disorder, which is derived from Greek word – 'kyphos' which means bowed or bent. Spinal curve of the backbone in the upper back causes bowing of the backbone. It also affects the lower back.
Kyphosis is a spinal disorder, which is derived from Greek word – 'kyphos' which means bowed or bent. Spinal curve of the backbone in the upper back causes bowing of the backbone. It also affects the lower back.
Despite advocating that parents get their children moving, Straker warns bag load should not exceed 15percent of body weight.
To reach the conclusion, students were asked a series of questions such as how long they carried their bags for, how they carried their school bags, the time taken to get to school, method of travel, and their perceptions about the bag's weight and the fatigue levels they felt.
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Spinal anesthesia, a form of regional anesthesia involves the injection of certain anesthetic drugs into a fluid-filled space in which the spinal cord and the nerves arising from it are suspended using a fine long needle.
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Females also had a higher prevalence than males for all measures of spinal pain.
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Spines in Children More Susceptible to Accidents Than Previously Thought
A new study on lambs' spines has shown that a child's back is much more flexible and more vulnerable to spinal damage in a car crash than previously thought.
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However, the gender difference may also be that females have lower pain tolerance and thresholds and self-report pain more readily.
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Childhood Strokes Linked to Whiplash, Other Traumatic Injury
Strokes in children may occur even more often than brain tumors but unlike cancer, sadly, strokes in children are sometimes not recognized and treated, or at least not as early as they should be.
Strokes in children may occur even more often than brain tumors but unlike cancer, sadly, strokes in children are sometimes not recognized and treated, or at least not as early as they should be.
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