Can a bag damage your health?

Posted on April 20, 2009
Filed Under Interesting to know

Big bags still remain actual and trendy. Women adore such bags, for they have enough space for many things to be put in.

However, since the fashion designers had proclaimed big bags as a new trend, women, that have constant headaches or suffer from spine problems, started to turn to the doctors more often.
It is not unusual, when a bag, a woman takes to her work with her, has the weight of three or even four kilograms. Carrying such weight brings no benefits for a woman’s health. If the bag in addition has long belts, than a purse turns into an albatross on the neck – though not on the neck, but on the fragile woman’s shoulder. Long belts increase the pressure on a shoulder, and thus a fashionable bag appears to be a threat for a woman’s spine.

According to Jane Sadler, a practice family doctor from Baylor medical centre in Texas, more and more women, that choose bags with longer belts, complain about constant and increasing headaches and pains in the neck. William Keis, a private pediatrician from Houston, Texas, adds to this, that carrying such bags regularly can result into serious spine problems.
Doctors believe, that a heavy bag hanging on one’s shoulder transforms the normal posture of the body. This causes dizziness and pains in one’s spine. The specialists in medicine consider the bags not heavier than two kilograms to be safe.