Health experts said that parents and guardians should look for the following warning signs that a child’s backpack is too heavy. Dr. David Gentile is an osteopathic physician who deals with ...

Yet at St. Elizabeth School in Maryland, Rossen and Carr found kids lugging backpacks weighing 16, 19 and even 20 pounds. Experts say it's not just how heavy a backpack is: The way your child ...

As a ninth-grader, I know firsthand the burden of carrying a heavy backpack. Mine weighs close to 20 pounds, the same weight as a large watermelon. Upon returning to in-person classes after COVID ...

Thousands of children show up at the emergency room every year with backpack-related injuries. Now, a new study provides evidence that heavy backpacks really do strain children's spines.

It's time to think about heavy backpacks and its dangers. News 12's Carol Silva speaks with Dr. Vincent Johnson from New York Spine & Pain Physicians on the topic. Below find more information on ...

For years, students have been burdened with excessively heavy backpacks, which makes them slouch and walk at a slower pace. These huge bags on little shoulders may be a seemingly minor issue ...

Like adorable turtles, their little limbs poking out from under outsized shells, kids shuffle their ways to school bearing on their shoulders ever-heavier backpacks. Even high schoolers have to ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Now that kids in the DMV are back in school, doctors want parents to start looking out for signs a child's backpack is too heavy. Students come in all ages and sizes ...

Schlepping around a heavy backpack all day is tiring work. What makes is worse is that it's often hard to find a place to sit down and rest while you're on the go. A new backpack solves this problem.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Kids may think that wearing a heavy backpack low on their back or casually hanging over one shoulder looks cool, but doctors warn that there’s nothing stylish about the ...