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Backpack as a daily load for schoolchildren
Lancet (London, England)
|January 6, 2000
Abstract:
34.8% of Italian schoolchildren carry more than 30% of their bodyweight at least once a week, exceeding limits proposed for adults. Given increasing evidence of back pain in children, the time has come to propose some limitations to backpack load.
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