It’s that time of year again – Back to School! Help educate your local community with educating parents on proper backpack safety so their children may reduce possible injury from backpack poor-positioning and overweighting which can drastically changes the sagittal balance of the child possibly leading to repetitive injury and pain.
Using PostureScreen, you can quickly and objectively perform fast pre-post posture assessments to help educate your local community and hopefully prevent children from weighting their backpacks more then 10-15% of their body weight all while encouraging them to use both straps, and using rolling bags and lockers when at all possible. A good study to share and review is below.
How To Perform? Simply do an initial assessment like normal of your patient/client. Next do a follow up assessment with them with their backpack. Next generate a normal comparative report. Then educate the client/patient on the changes noted and offer suggestions based on your professional experience.
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