What makes children develop bad habits that produce chronic back pains along the years?
Several factors that contribute to the formation of these bad postural habits are listed by specialists. The first of them is imitation. The learning process in childhood comes through the observation of people’s postural habits, of their physical and mental reactions to day-to-day situations and of adults around them (3). Another factor can be found in fear, as a physical and mental defense mechanism that the child activates along the years in order to deal with stressful situations, uncertainties and the threat of failing. Another cause of bad postural habits and poor movement is found in classrooms: inadequacy of school furniture for the child (4), sitting in classrooms for long periods of time to complete school hours (5), weight of the rucksacks that carry educational material (6), and introduction of the use of computers (7), among others. All these factors facilitate the development of harmful postural habits that lead to lack of balance and organization in the child’s coordinat
