As the time for the new school year has come, a specialist who is part of the union of physiotherapist masseurs has given his advice to Francetvinfo to help your children better support the load of their schoolbags. He insists on practicing physical activity to remedy this.
After eight weeks of vacation, the students have returned to school. A return to school which once again raised the debate on the weight of the school bag, a subject on which the Minister of National Education, Gabriel Attal hopes to quickly find a solution “to halve the weight of the school bag”. This Sunday, September 3, he spoke on M6 in this sense, ensuring that he wanted to “move forward during this year”.
A subject that concerns both parents and the government since according to the latest data retrieved by France Bleu, a schoolbag weighs between 8 and 13 kg, or nearly 17% of the weight of the child. Alarming figures since it is recommended not to exceed the figure of 10% as explained by Guillaume Rall, president of the union of masseurs physiotherapists re-educators: “When children carry schoolbags which represent 15, 20, or 25% of the weight of the body, we have to think of solutions to ensure that this schoolbag can be a little lighter”.
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Exercising and practicing physical activity
If several solutions are available to schoolchildren, the specialist affirms that it is not necessary to rely on this figure of 10%: “there are children who will tolerate 15 or 20% very well and that is not bad. for their backs. The most important thing is the practice of a physical activity to strengthen the back muscles of the child. Indeed, if a child practices a physical activity and moves regularly enough, the load of their schoolbag will be much better supported and not bad for the back.
As the physiotherapist explains: “What can cause concern is precisely this balance between the number of hours to remain seated and the moment when we will ask a child to carry a load”. It is therefore strongly advised to move more and push your child to be in constant physical activity, playing in a garden daily is enough for example, no need to enroll your child in a specific sporting activity.
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