Backpack Awareness
Back Pain: A Quality of Life Issue for Children
In recent years, heavy backpack weight has become an issue of increasing significance, since it is known to have serious effects on health. Pain and other problems induced by heavy backpacks can affect a child’s quality of life in many ways; for instance, it may result in disruptions in daily activities and lost school time.
Your child may be experiencing back pain, and you may not even know it. The purpose of this site is to provide parents and teachers like you with information to help prevent back pain in your children.
This website is currently under construction. We apologize for any glitches it may have and for missing links or pictures. Please check back soon; we should have it complete by then. Thanks.
Website last edited on April 3, 2009
Carmen Hung and Safanah T Siddiqui
