Not one day goes past without one of my friends complaining about aches and pains in their backs, including me. Back pain is a common problem for most people over 20 years old. Since the abolishment of desks and the popularisation of homework, children's bags have got heavier and heavier. In the homework phenomenon that started around the 1980s, children have been straining with large rucksacks laden with textbooks and workbooks, pencil cases and folders
Pittsburgh Steeler, sports kit and lunch boxes. No wonder we now have a generation of cracking and twisted backs.
Back problems in young people aren't just caused by carrying around schoolbooks in their teens. After passing their driving tests at the age of 17 many teenagers (most often boys) will move their driving seats back until they are almost lying down. Car insurance won't pay for NHS treatments if your seat position is causing you back pain. It's up to you to make sure that you have the correct support for your spine.
With so many things that encourage us to be unhealthy, it is hard to change bad habits. Changing now may not undo all the harm that had been caused to your back but it could prevent an even more uncomfortable old age.
It should be mandatory that every student has free chiropractic appointments every month for the time they are at school. Children often carry heavy bags around with them all day. Even if the bag is a rucksack with two padded straps, all too often children will only carry the bag on one shoulder because they think it looks cooler. Girls' bags (especially satchels and handbags) can be designed more to look good than be practical.
Just because there's a recession doesn't mean that your beauty doc needs to suffer! For god's sake, sell your children to white slavers or the Pitt-Jolies if you must. Your husband only needs one kidney to effectively function, and your parents will be perfectly happy in a Medicaid run facility! It's not like they know where they are anyway, and since they already don't know who you are anymore,why not surprise them with a new look every time you remember to visit?Anyway, Ms. Howell took one look at my skin and said "Oh hell no, I'm not a magician." Okay
Coogi Men T-shirts, that's not what she said at all. She told me all about the wonderful Obagi Nu-Derm system, gave me a DVD to take home and scheduled me an appointment to taser my face. I did a series of intense pulsed light therapy sessions, aka Fotofacial, Photofacial, Photoderm and a host of other nicknames. IPL therapy is a non-ablative skin resurfacing tool.
I've used Retin-A since my teens, so that has probably helped somewhat with the problem. But since around thirty-six I have been plagued with ever expanding dark brown blotches that responded to nothing. You name a department store brand to lighten and clarify skin and I have used it, honey. You could finance a small country on the amount of money I've spent on products, including and not up to Tri-Luna which did nothing at all.Then Miss Christy came to town
Adidas Shoes, and like a bad ass skin care sheriff, took care of some business with my skin.Christy Howell is the new medical esthetician at my favorite Valdosta doctor's office; Azalea Center for Plastic Surgery. Dr. Bridgette Moore is the nip/tuck wiz that gave me my superboobs, and newly fleshed out lips. If you are considering any sort of cosmetic surgery, you need to check her first.
Computers can also take their share of the blame. After years of carrying heavy bags, driving whilst lying down and sleeping on cheap mattresses, we then enter the working world. Posh furniture shops are now selling all kinds of funky chairs and stools that are designed not just to look quirky but also to encourage people to sit properly at desks and computers. Looking through the window of one such shop in our local high street I see chairs that have a large hollow bouncy ball at their centre, chairs that you half sit on, half kneel on and even chairs with uncomfortable looking spikes coming out of the back rest...all to stop us slumping lazily as we work.
Another problem is the advent of cheap homeware stores that sell cheaply made mattresses. Cheap mattresses used to be rock hard but at least that way your spine could be supported. At the moment the cheapest mattresses feel as though they have been made out of two strips of soggy cardboard and a few weak springs. Light as a feather, you could spin these cheap beds on your finger like a flat of pizza dough. I spent many university nights on my cheap mattress, trying to avoid the points where the hazardous poking wire coils would graze my back and contorting into positions that I never would have thought possible to sleep in.