Smartphones: more and more back problems

How much time do kids spend with their eyes glued to a mobile phone or tablet? What does this mean for their backs? Normal worries for an apprehensive mother, but nowadays they are also echoed by specialists in the field, who are sounding the alarm for children’s health. Recent sources (ISTAT data) confirm that over 300,000 young people (up to …

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Children go back to school. How much does their backpack weigh?

September is the month of restarts. For everyday life, it is like a second month of January. And the most important event of this period is the return to school. All over the world millions of children, of young people, are ready to resume their studies. Loaded with enthusiasm, with expectations. But also laden with worries. Worries also about health. …

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Returning to the office and posture problems

Office work generates physical problems mainly related to posture, pains that emerge slowly, but which can become chronic and cause us quite a few problems. Many of us took a rest in August and now start working full-time again. Are we ready to spend hours and hours in the office, sitting in front of a computer, without returning home with …

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Back pain, between stress and posture

Often there are elements that we do not put in close correlation, but that greatly affect our physical condition. A backache, for example, not only can depend on posture problems (problems that we can in many cases recognize even with the naked eye), but also on situations of extreme stress, especially if poorly managed. Anxiety, even if it may seem …

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Back pain in children

It is not always easy to understand the signals children send us. Back pain should always alarm a parent, but sometimes the child may not show signs of pain, and sometimes the parent may dismiss it as a tantrum. In the long run, back pain can have several unpleasant effects, such as sleep (and behavior) problems and difficulty finding concentration …

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Back pain in pregnancy: useful advice on remedies and prevention

The period of pregnancy is very delicate and can generate annoying back pain. We have already discussed this in a previous introductory article, but today we are going to go into a little more detail and try to understand what remedies are available to relieve the pain and what we can do to prevent it. There is no doubt that …

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