[pct-l] Heavy Backpacks May Damage Nerves, Muscles and Skeleton, Study Suggests

[Brick Robbins]

if you want to read the whole article, not the puf piece in the pop
journal, you can find it here
http://0-jap.physiology.org.library.pcc.edu/content/112/4/597.full?sid=3ed39998-2ce2-42cd-8611-0a761af2f0d9

me? I'm going to avoid heavy packs

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Rod Miller <rod at rodmiller.com> wrote:
> On 2/26/13 1:13 PM, tsparks56 at aol.com wrote:
>> I guess this means I am finally going to get rid of my 1975 vintage Jansport
>> pack, that thing must weigh 4 pounds!
>>
>> Seriously though, anything we do, including a hard workout is "damaging" our
>> bodies at some level, as well as being a couch potato watching Looney Tunes
>> all day long.
>>
> I wouldn't take that study seriously until there is
> more information about it.
>
> I read it and didn't see any information about how much weight
> was considered, nor the subjects' ages.
> So, how much weight? How old were the subjects, e.g., were
> they of an age where their bones were still growing and
> sensitive to unusally placed loads on the skeletal structure?
>
> We all get a little shorter as we age because of age-related
> compression of the spine which occurs all the time we're
> vertical, not just when we're backpacking.
>
> I'm not worrying about it.
>
> Rod
>
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