One of the biggest mistakes college students make these days is not one that happens in the classroom, and it’s not one that they make when they’re studying for their classes. In fact, it comes from something that happens a lot between those two main components of college these days… it’s the way they carry their laptops around with them.
While many students have opted for the laptop backpack to carry their computers, it’s still shocking to see that many of them have not. And speaking from experience, the reluctance to use a backpack properly, with it carried over BOTH shoulders, is something that most students will not have a problem with today or tomorrow, but it is something that can catch up to them down the road. And often times, it’s not even all that far down the road before they start paying the consequences.
What kind of consequences? I’m glad you asked.
We’re talking about back and neck problems that can seriously put a crimp in anyone’s lifestyle, much less that of an active college student. It’s amazing what you CAN’T do when your back goes out or when you have a horribly stiff neck. And with the hours and hours that students these days spend in front of a computer, hunched over the keyboard whether it’s studying, writing term papers or playing video games and chatting with friends on MySpace, the fact is that they are setting their muscles up to become prone to imbalances. When you add the component of constantly carrying a laptop and books over just one shoulder (so often it’s always the same shoulder), you are a chiropractor’s dream patient waiting to happen.
The simplest thing to do to prevent the potential problems is to simply use a computer backpack, and to use it correctly. Let the weight be properly and evenly distributed over both shoulders and your back and you will keep that chiropractor at bay much, much longer.
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What do you think?