Murfreesboro Back Packs and Back Pain: A Chiropractic Topic

It’s that time of year again in Murfreesboro: back to school! And out come the backpacks. There’s always a mild debate about just how harmful (or not!) back packs are back pain in young people. There’s always mild debate about how the kids are to get all their stuff required for homework back and forth from home if not in a backpack. There’s a quandary for you! Ban homework?! Not likely! Most Chiropractic Clinic understands and is here for those Murfreesboro school kids (and older folks) who use backpacks and find themselves experiencing Murfreesboro back pain. Most Chiropractic Clinic has a treatment plan to relieve Murfreesboro back pain!

The influence of Murfreesboro backpacks on young people’s back pain occurrence is genuine. There is a higher occurrence of Murfreesboro low back pain when carting backpacks probably 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. An influencing factor is likely the way the back pack is carried. (2) Another study done in Italy documented that greater than 60% of school kids 6 to 19 years of age in one study said they have back pain. Girls who used 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 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) Most Chiropractic Clinic 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 carry book bags or backpacks. Murfreesboro chiropractic care may help ease the back pain and help figure out what’s causing it and how to prevent it.

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