Backbags

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Backpacks today are way to heavy for children to be caring around. When you have the weight of about three high school books and binders strapped to your back it starts to weigh you down. Some of the time this bags is about half or more of the weight of the child. This starts to causes all sources of problems. I have decided to do this paper because I was once in this position and four years later I am still paying for it. I want my children and grandchildren not to have to same problems that these helpful school bags have caused me. There are several things that I find important to fixing this problem. They are knowing what causes backpacks to be so heavy, how to load and carry a backpack properly, the health problems, and different solutions to help solve this dilemma.
More students today complain of a heavy backpack. The contents of a book bag seem to grow more each year. A normal backpack can contain at any one time; textbooks notebooks, supplies, gym clothes, coats, and lunch boxes. These items can weigh from ten to forty pounds (issue 991011). Doctors suggest that students carry only ten to fifteen percent of their own body weight on their back. Obviously many of these children are caring more than that around and are causing serious problems to their backs, shoulders, necks, and even stomachs. This is not good for a child’s growing bodies (Cusato).
How you carry your backpack is as important as the design and strength of the book bag. If you carry your backpack only on one shoulder, like most of us do, you will more than likely end up with neck and shoulder pains and problems. One major problem this causes, since you are doing this everyday week end and week out, is the pinching of nerves at the front of the shoulders; which in turns can cause tension headaches and sever pain in the shoulders. When the weight is too heavy and you pick the book bag up and down several times during a day then that slows but surly starts to ef...