
Those Heavy School Bags! (extract from Your Chiropractor)
The impact of heavy books and bags on children’s backs places risks to the child’s spine. Prevention can reduce the impacts later in life. The general rule is a maximum of 10% of the student’s body weight in the school bag. That works out to approximately 4-5 kgs for a 40-50 kg student. In a recent survey of 1,000 children, it found almost 50% of students were carrying well over the 10% recommendation of their body weight. There is immediate impact of strain on the spine from lifting a bag that is overloaded and too heavy. The longer a child




