Oxford Back Packs and Back Pain: A Chiropractic Topic

It’s back to school time again in Oxford! And so are the backpacks. There’s always a mild debate about the influence of backpacks on 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 is a quandary for you! No more homework, maybe?! Not likely! Satterwhite Chiropractic understands and is here for those Oxford school kids (and older folks) who use backpacks and find themselves experiencing Oxford back pain. Satterwhite Chiropractic has a treatment plan to relieve Oxford back pain!

The influence of Oxford backpacks on young people’s back pain incidence is genuine. There is a higher occurrence of Oxford low back pain when taking backpacks probably because of 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 showed that greater than 60% of school kids 6 to 19 years of age in one study reported 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 seems that the longer they cart the backpacks around, the more back pain they have. 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) Satterwhite 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 part in back pain felt by adolescents who carry book bags or backpacks. Oxford chiropractic care helps ease the back pain and help figure out what is causing it and how to prevent it.

Schedule a Oxford chiropractic appointment today to discuss back pain and backppack carrying. Oxford back pain relief is promising at Satterwhite Chiropractic with Oxford chiropractic care!