Core Chiro

📚 Kids & Backpacks 📚
We've all seen the sea of schoolkids carrying their backpacks to and from school. Often the bags seem to be almost as big as the child carrying them. Overloaded, incorrectly packed and carried backpacks can lead to back, neck and shoulder strain and injury that can lead to ongoing issues that may last a lifetime.
Here are a few tips that your childs' spine will thank you for, even if your child doesn't 😉
🔹 Choose a backpack with compartments, wide straps, (about 5cm) and a waiststrap, to help distribute to weight.
🔹 Pack heavy items at the bottom and close to the back.
🔹 Tighten the shoulder straps so that the pack sits snugly, with the bottom on the waist and the top just below the base of the skull. Packs should never be carried over one shoulder.
🔹 Don't overfill packs. Consider using a second bag for carrying extra items.
🔹 Keep the pack weight at a maxium of 15% of your childs' body weight.
🔹 Encourage your kids to remove any items that are not needed for that day.

Our brains are extremely complex and powerful! Most people have never heard of the term “brain imbalance” and yet it is the root cause of so much suffering. The most common brain ” imbalance” occurs between the two hemispheres of the brain; the scientific name is a functional disconnection. Essentially it is a lack of connection, communication and integration between networks on either side of the brain.

This lack of integration is most commonly a result of a developmental imbalance or developmental asynchrony. This means that one side of the brain is delayed or slowed in its development which causes the other to mature and grow faster. This imbalance in growth and maturity prevents the two sides of the brain from properly integrating.

This results in an unevenness of functional abilities where one side of the brain is advanced or even ” too strong” relative to the other side which has skills and functions that are underdeveloped and weaker. Obsessive, compulsive or hyperactive behavior is an example of the left hemisphere being too strong and producing symptoms.