Postural defect of school going children due to heavy weight bag

Posture is that state of body in which it moves around on two legs in erect position. We humans are unique in the animal kingdom, in that we move around on two legs than four as most other animals do. But due to uses of heavy weight bag which are full of books and copies it affect the children’s normal posture. Three type of bad posture has been seen, they are – kyphosis, lordosis and scoliosis. For the purpose of the study 30 school going children were taken randomly along with their parents responded to a self constructed questionnaire designed in the light of set objectives from three different schools namely Bolpur High School, Bandhgora Kalikrishna Vidyalaya and Srinanda High School, 10 from each school, Birbhum District, West Bengal, India, age ranged from eleven to fourteen years to observe postural deformities photographic method was used and obtained data was treated with percentage method only.