Bags weighing 15% could affect head, neck, trunk, and the lower limb changing the overall posture of the child. Nandini Babhulkar, a city-based doctor specializing in children, said, "studies in ...

The campaign against heavy schoolbags continued in Mysuru on Monday with child rights activists and workers of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) weighing the bags of children outside a private school in ...

Children buckling under weight of heavy and poorly designed school bags, a charity has warned. Back health charity BackCare said as many as 80 per cent of children carry too much weight in poorly ...

Heavy school bags are damaging our children. This is the message from health experts who say eight out of every 10 schoolchildren are likely to suffer backache and headaches due to carrying the ...

Runyon said that children carry too heavy of a burden on their backs with packs stuffed with too much weight on growing and ... related to backpacks and book bags and half of those injuries ...

More than 80 percent of children are carrying school bags that weigh nearly a fifth of their body weight, putting more pressure on their backs, a new study conducted by charity organization ...

According to a father, the weight of bags being carried by his kids every day from home to the bus and from the bus to the class reaches 7kg for his son in KG2 and 8.5kg for his daughter in grade 3.

There are many things that can lead to back pain. However, most of our Guyanese children now have backaches because they’re lugging around their entire week’s worth of books, school supplies ...

School bags normally weigh anywhere between 1 kg to 10 kgs. In a cross-sectional study to understand the effects of the weight of schoolbags and musculoskeletal health problems in primary school ...

Weighing just 28kg, the girl had been carrying ... and even spinal issues like scoliosis due to heavy school bags. Children may also experience muscle strain, fatigue, difficulty in walking ...