Backpacks are used these days as a most convenient way to carry accessories. But these days carrying backpacks has become more of a fashion statement than a mater of utility. Students these days give priority to the backpack's look and overlook the proper use of the item. I conducted a survey on campus and found that in recent times carrying backpacks has been a problem. Some of the solutions to this problem are carrying a backpack in a proper manner, having lockers in the school aisle ways, having electronic note taking and having our textbooks on websites or having a set of books left in class. .
Students carry around heavy backpacks because they have to bring their books and other items to school with them. However, heavy backpacks are the cause of most of the back problems found in today's students. From hours of studying, sitting at computers, sitting in class for hours, and carrying a backpack, students develop definite back injuries. Students carrying heavy backpacks damage their growing musculoskeletal systems (Lucas, 2002). Chronic neck and back pain, shoulder discomfort, headaches, muscle strain, and spinal damage are the result of heavy backpacks (Lucas, 2002). Textbooks, notebooks, folders, and other items make a backpack weigh five to thirty-five pounds; the average backpack should weigh around ten pounds (Lucas, 2002). Nevertheless, about half the population in the United States carry around backpacks that weigh more than fifteen percent of their body weight. Even carrying six percent of a student's body weight can cause minor strain and tingling feelings in the arms and hands. .
As per the recent survey I conducted at the Fresno State campus I learned that 90 percent of the students on campus carry backpacks and about 50 percent them experience back pain. A majority of them carry their backpacks in a stylish way and are ignorant of the fact that they are damaging their back in the long run.
