Physiotherapists are sounding the alarm: School-age children are particularly vulnerable to the appearance of postural defects and the aggravation of existing ones. - The risk factor is primarily: adopting an incorrect body shape for many hours, while sitting in a school desk or in free time while using smartphones and carrying too heavy schoolbags, as well as low physical activity, says Wojciech Kiebzak, PhD, professor of the Jagiellonian University, specialist in physical rehabilitation, head of the Clinical Rehabilitation Department of the Świętokrzyskie Pediatrics Center, provincial consultant in physiotherapy.
- It is important to note that wearing backpacks is not an activity that is prolonged over time, as is the abnormal, hours-long way of maintaining body posture. Some authors from a review of scientific publications indicate that the impact of the weight of a schoolbag is important for the quality of health. Particularly harmful is the weight of a schoolbag above 10 or 15 percent of a child's body weight, but also the carrying of a bag on one shoulder, explains Professor Wojciech Kiebzak.
- The just mentioned factors, according to the mentioned authors, can cause the fo...
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