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Children First Physio
Childhood conditions and injuries treated
There are a vide variety of childhood conditions and injuries that can be helped by Children First Physiotherapy. Please telephone if you require more specific advice.
The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
New research by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy shows that teenage lifestyles, including lack of exercise and carrying heavy schoolbags, are causing an avoidable increase in the number of people needing treatment for back problems.
The Department of Health
The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) has produced guidance designed to help young people avoid developing back and neck pain while at school.
Great Ormond Street Hospital
"Wearing backpacks improperly or ones that are too heavy put children at increased risk for spinal injury," said Mary Ann Wilmarth from Northeastern University in Boston.
Teaching Expertise
Schoolbags: many researchers have argued that the increasing trend in back pain in children is due to the heavy loads they carry in their school bags. Again, adults are protected by manual handling regulations, children are not.
SOS Centres
Various theories of the cause of low back pain in children and adolescents have been proposed. The most common causes reported in the literature are heavy school bags, poorly designed furniture at school, being tall and a sedentary life style e.g. prolonged seating in front of computers.