ROANOKE, Va. – Medical experts warn parents to pay attention to how heavy their child’s backpacks are as students get ready to head back to school.
Dr. Zachary Williams, who is the interim emergency medicine medical director at Lewis Gale Medical Center, said students come in with neck, back, and shoulder pain linked to heavy backpacks.
“I think across the nation and even at the emergency department on rare circumstances, but not infrequently, we see kids come in with neck pain, back pain, shoulder pain, and some of that can be contributed to backpack use and the overweight or the amount of weight that’s in the backpack,” said Williams…