Background: Backpack loads of school students during school days have been suggested to
range from 10% to as high as 25% of their body weight and may have a negative impact on …

Low back pain (LBP) is the leading cause of disability worldwide. It often begins in
adolescence, setting a course for later in life. We have tracked the course of LBP in the …

Purpose: To evaluate and explore the influence of the weight of a backpack on standing
posture and gait in children and adolescents. Methods: We conducted a search of MEDLINE …

Background Low back pain (LBP) is highly prevalent in children and adolescents, while
psychosocial, anthropometric, developmental, and lifestyle factors have been associated …

Introduction: Speech sound disorder is one of the most prevalent developmental
communication disorders affecting approximately 8.7 percent of school-age children …

Back pain in children is a reality and various factors are involved in its etiology. The study's
aim was to analyze the relationship between the use and type of backpack and pain in …

Owing to the lack of longitudinal studies in Latin American countries, we aimed to evaluate
back pain and its risk factors in a 3-year longitudinal study of Brazilian adolescents. We …

Introduction: Researchers make an effort to the assessment of injuries prevalence in
different sports, to the find the cause of this injury and eventually to provide the appropriate …

Background: There is a paucity of data on the relationship between backpack use and foot
posture in children. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of a backpack on foot …

Background: Neck pain (NP), back pain (BP), and low back pain (LBP) are generally defined
as “pain in the spine.” With the increasing prevalence of childhood obesity, secondary …