By
Dr.K R P Chapman
I am sure most Sri Lankan parents would be aware how heavy their child’s school bag weighs. The other day, I was helping my 8 year old niece to get her school backpack on and it seemed quite heavy even for me as an adult. It seemed very unreasonable that such a small growing human being should be subjected to carrying such a “necessity” to school everyday. As a doctor, I could well imagine what harm this could do to the growing spine of a child in the long term. Chronic back problems, although not very common among children, could well have their origins in early childhood spurred on by such unbalanced influences on the vertebral column. Scoliosis, pathological lordosis and kyphoscoliosis, subclinical stress fractures can exacerbate chronic spinal problems.
The need arises to have a standardised weight that a school going kid can carry with regard to that particular child’s body mass index. The bodymass index (Kg/M2) is calculated as the ratio of weight (Kg) divided by the height of the individual squared (M2).
Indeed a study has to be first done to analyse data regarding the following issues and then propose an optimum weight around which children would be comfortable carrying.
Study growth patterns of school going children and spine related disease spectrum over a statistically significant time period. Psychosocial analysis of the problem Explore what alternative measures can be taken to resolve the problem. However it would be unfair by school staff if such limits are enforced on them haphazardly. There should be forums where doctors qualified in the particular fields such as orthopaedic surgeons, neurologists, community medical specialists, general practitioners, teachers, physiotherapist, parents and school administrators as well as bag manufacturers be welcomed to share their experience to arrive at a sustainable solution to this “growing problem”.
Dr.K R P Chapman
I am sure most Sri Lankan parents would be aware how heavy their child’s school bag weighs. The other day, I was helping my 8 year old niece to get her school backpack on and it seemed quite heavy even for me as an adult. It seemed very unreasonable that such a small growing human being should be subjected to carrying such a “necessity” to school everyday. As a doctor, I could well imagine what harm this could do to the growing spine of a child in the long term. Chronic back problems, although not very common among children, could well have their origins in early childhood spurred on by such unbalanced influences on the vertebral column. Scoliosis, pathological lordosis and kyphoscoliosis, subclinical stress fractures can exacerbate chronic spinal problems.
The need arises to have a standardised weight that a school going kid can carry with regard to that particular child’s body mass index. The bodymass index (Kg/M2) is calculated as the ratio of weight (Kg) divided by the height of the individual squared (M2).
Indeed a study has to be first done to analyse data regarding the following issues and then propose an optimum weight around which children would be comfortable carrying.
Study growth patterns of school going children and spine related disease spectrum over a statistically significant time period. Psychosocial analysis of the problem Explore what alternative measures can be taken to resolve the problem. However it would be unfair by school staff if such limits are enforced on them haphazardly. There should be forums where doctors qualified in the particular fields such as orthopaedic surgeons, neurologists, community medical specialists, general practitioners, teachers, physiotherapist, parents and school administrators as well as bag manufacturers be welcomed to share their experience to arrive at a sustainable solution to this “growing problem”.
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