Back to School Chiropractic Treatments for Stress and Injuries
As the school year kicks off and your children had back to their friends and their studies, they may be overwhelmed by the sudden onset of homework and classroom stress and injured from heavy backpacks. Chiropractic care can help alleviate your child’s back injuries and soft tissue damage, and it can help provide stress relief from the hectic school days.
Back, Neck Pain and Soft Tissue Damage from Backpacks
With the increase in homework and classes, children’s backpacks have gotten heavier. This leads to back injuries and soft tissue damage and can throw your child’s developing spine out of alignment, causing acute and chronic pain.
To prevent these injuries, teach your child how to properly lift and carry their book bag. Lifting a heavy backpack requires bending at the knees, grasping the pack and standing. Your child should also use both straps on their pack and the waist strap, if the book bag is equipped with one. This will distribute the load evening and prevent the bag from shifting while walking, running and getting into and out of the car.
Chiropractic Care for Stress Relief and Health and Wellness
Chiropractic adjustments can alleviate your child’s back pain, correct any misalignments and heal backpack injuries and help lower your child’s stress levels. Chiropractic adjustments are a completely natural way to reduce pain and heal accidental back injuries.
When backpacks are overloaded, your child may compensate by leaning forward. This places addition weight and stress on the back and can result in pulled muscles and soft tissue damage. Reducing the weight of your child’s back pack and scheduling regular chiropractic adjustments can heal the injuries so that your child is not plagued with back pain.
Additionally, chiropractic care has been shown to reduce overall stress levels, which helps your child think more clearly and lowers the level of stress hormones in your child’s blood, which can improve your child’s immune system.
Would you schedule an appointment with our chiropractor to alleviate your child’s back pain and stress?