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Safety Tips for Your Teenagers Backpack |
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Written by Dawn C.
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Friday, 27 October 2006 |
Safety Tips for Your Teenagers Backpack
In preschool children start carrying backpacks. Four years old and encouraged to carry a backpack to school! Which this sets up a pattern that follows them all through the school years. While, the little girls look so adorable with their little pink princess backpacks as they get on the bus, but the bag usually comes home as t tempty as it went to school.
For school-age children and teens backpacks can be very helpful and useful. They come in a number of different sizes, shapes, and colors and allow teens to express their individual personalities. Which they are also helpful by the many different compartments that help them tote notebooks, books, papers, lunches, and all the other number of items which teens need to carry. Backpacks are considered safer to carry than a shoulder bag or purse because the strongest muscles in the body support the backpack. The shoulder muscles, back muscles, and the abdominal muscles are used to support the weight of a backpack.
It is recommended that teens carry no more than 15% of their body weight in their backpack. Carrying any more can cause muscle and joint strains, and back pain if the backpack is too heavy or not worn properly. Shoulder, neck, and back pain can result in carrying a backpack which is too heavy. When your teen is carrying a pack that is too heavy, they may overcompensate by bending at the hips, or arching the back just to be able to carry it. This compresses the disk in the spine to compress and teens could start having back and shoulder pain.
Some teens try to carry their whole locker with them during school. They either don't have enough time to go to their lockers between classes or they just don't want to go back to their locker. They may also have personal belongings, laptops, DVD players, and CD collections.
If your teen wants to carry their backpack over one shoulder, they may end up with more problems. Which can cause them to lean to one side to reimburse for the added weight and cause them to develop upper and lower back pain, neck pain, and strain to their shoulders. By not carrying your backpack properly can also encourage poor posture. Girls are more at risk for backpack injuries because they are smaller and try to carry too much in their backpacks making it too heavy for them.
Tight narrow straps can interfere with circulation when they dig into shoulders and can cause nerve damage. Weakness in the teens arms and hands, tingling, and a numb sensation can also be caused by the tightness, which means the straps on the backpack are too small.
The backpacks that are too large can also be a hazard to other individuals. Your teenager probably doesn't know how big their backpack is and that it can harm someone, especially in confined spaces, like the aisles of a bus. Which they are also a tripping hazard and many injuries have been reported by other teens falling on backpacks that are in the aisles either in classrooms or buses. The risk of someone falling wearing a backpack is much greater because your sense of balance is altered, especially while you are climbing stairs.
Here are some helpful hints to helping your teen avoid physical problems and still carry all their essentials in a backpack. When looking for the proper backpack, purchase a backpack that is lightweight to start off with. Leather may look cooler but they will add extra weight that your teen does not need to carry. A lightweight canvas or nylon bag is highly recommended. It should be equipped with two padded, wide shoulder straps that won't dig into their shoulders. A waist belt can also help by spreading the weight more evenly over the body. It also doesn't hurt to find one with a padded back that will give them extra carrying comfort. However, a backpack with many different compartments is a good idea for dividing the weight more evenly.
Several teens that carry a lot of belongings sometimes will use a pull behind pack similar to the pull behind carry-on luggage. Which this may ease the back pain but is also even harder to get upstairs, or roll outside. Numerous schools discourage the use of rolling backpacks because of the tripping hazard they present in the halls.
As a parent, if you are aware of all the dangers involved in carrying a backpack, you can be very helpful in finding the best one for your teen and making sure that they don't put too much in it. |
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