Many children today complain about back pain from carrying heavy backpacks to school. Health experts are now sounding the alarm about this growing problem, advising parents to double-check their children’s book bags.
They say that overweight book bags can impact children more than people realize.Data from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission paints a clearer picture of the severity of the problem.
The agency estimates that an annual average of 7,500 kids under 19 years old had serious backpack-related injuries from 2017 to 2019.
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