Tired
of lugging around huge purses, laptop and travel
bags? gogogear
owner and designer Katharine Marinaro created a
solution that will ease the pain in your back and
shoulders. It was after witnessing her children
carry around school books that weighed more than
them that inspired Marinaro. She decided to design
2 lines of savvy, stylish bags on wheels ranging
from the fun and casual gogogear for children, to
ultra hip and luxurious gogovoyage for women. This
former clothing designer and mother of three launched
gogogear kids in May of 2005. Because of the huge
success gogovoyage was created 6 months later.
The
backpacks/travel bags have two outside pockets for
cell phones and water bottles, a padded compartment
for a laptop, an id tag, coin purse and inside key
holder. To compliment your bag, gogogear also offers
extras like matching coolers, cosmetic cases, gorgeous
leather laptop envelopes, cell phone holders, giant
market totes and even portable iPod speakers.
Gogogear’s
mission is to save the backs of everybody with a
gogo lifestyle. It’s a perfect marriage of
style and practicality, fashion and function.
With
today’s fast paced, wicked hectic traveling,
on the fly, movin, shakin lifestyles, we urge you
always to
be
safe* be kind*be happy
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40
million children and teens carry a backpack each
day
By: Dr. Ron Marinaro
Chiropractor
The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) , believes
that Carrying an overweight backpack is a contributing
factor to back pain in children today and urges
the use of ergonomically correct backpacks as a
solution. According to the U.S. Consumer Product
Safety Commission, the use of book bags or back
carriers resulted in over 6,000 injuries in 1999
alone. The American Occupational Therapy association
has recommended that backpack loads carried by students
be limited to 15% of a child's body weight. While
teachers assign the same quantity of books to each
student , their body sizes differ, which results
in different weight distribution causing the child
to carry the bag at different angles.This is one
of the factors resulting in chronic back pain in
children. The use of a pull bag redistributes the
weight putting less stress on the spine.
This
Week In Health Nutrition and Lifestyle News:
Take a Load Off of Your Kid's Back
By: Dr. Andrew Weil
M.D
Middle school students are carrying backpacks that
are too heavy for them,some weighty enough to cause
shoulder pain or even low back pain if they are
unevenly positioned. A study at the University of
California, San Diego School of Medicine found that
the pressure put on shoulders by a backpack equal
to 20 percent of a child’s body weight was
enough to reduce normal blood flow to skin and muscle
in the area. They noted that a typical loaded backpack
equals 22 percent of a child’s body weight.
For the study, the researchers tested backpacks
on ten 13-year-olds, five boys and five girls. The
more weight the backpack held, the more pain the
children reported. To prevent injury, the researchers
recommended that backpacks should be positioned
high on the back, the straps should be wide and
worn over both shoulders, and the contents of backpacks
should be minimized to lower theweight. The Consumer
Product Safety Commission has estimated that nearly7,500
schoolchildren come to emergency rooms each year
for backpack-related injuries. The study was published
in the December 2005 issue of the Archives of Pediatrics
and Adolescent Medicine.
Source: www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_28459.html
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