Chronic back pain is the process of bad posture developed as a habit over a number of years, and gets harder to correct as we mature into adults. As well, studies have shown that the peak age for the risk of posture disturbance is ages 9-11 for girls and 10-12 for boys. (Tambovtseva, 2000) By promoting back pain awareness starting from an early age (children ages 5-7, where habits start to set), we can nurture good posture habits in children and prevent chronic back pain in the long term.
Why?
Chronicle Back Pain
Target Group
Peak age for the risk of posture disturbance is 9-11 for girls and 10-12 for boys. Digestive and muscular somatotypes provide favourable prognosis respective to posture (in girls), while astenoid somatotype is the worst. Special type of posture defect is characteristic for each somatotype. In children with digestive and muscular somatotype primary posture defects disappear by 12-14. In children with astenoid and thoracal somatotype their number, in contrary, grows.