Since you’ll be needing to get your children ready to return to school in the up and coming next few weeks and will be beginning to start purchasing their new school supplies very soon, I would like to take the opportunity now, before you even begin purchasing any of your children’s back to school supplies […]
Backpack Safety Tips. Here are four guidelines for proper backpack use: 1. Choose Right — Choosing the correct sized backpack is an important first step to safe backpack use. The backpack should not be larger than three quarters of the length of a child’s back. The shoulder straps should be padded and a waist strap
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Backpacks May Spawn Falls. Research presented at the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation’s annual meeting in San Francisco exposes yet another potential danger of heavy backpacks: they promote falls in students who wear them. Specifically, students who carried packs weighing 25% of their body weight exhibited balance problems while performing normal activities such
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Backpacks’ Attack On Backs. Watch children in any schoolyard struggle to walk while bent sideways under the weight of an overloaded backpack on one shoulder. You will quickly realize the potential danger of this commonplace item. How exactly does carrying a backpack affect the spine? Common sense tells us that a load distributed improperly or
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