{"id":410,"date":"2014-09-23T16:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/?p=410"},"modified":"2014-09-23T10:42:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T14:42:16","slug":"pack-it-light-wear-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/2014\/09\/23\/pack-it-light-wear-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"“Pack it light, wear it right.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Jennifer Bush, BS, MOTS ’15<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Backpack<\/a>
Jennifer Bush demonstrates how to wear and adjust a backpack to prevent strain and injury.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To highlight backpack awareness day (Sept. 17) and for my\u00a0advocacy\u00a0assignment in my O.T. Administration and Management course, I organized a backpack awareness event with the help of members of the Pennsylvania Occupational Therapy Association as well as Elizabethtown College students. To spread the word about our event and to raise awareness about backpack ergonomics, I created a flyer with the location date and time. The flyer was sent to local schools in the Lancaster County area; some schools posted the flyer on their website while others disseminated printed copies to students.\u00a0Daniel Panchik<\/span>,\u00a0who teaches Kinesiology for the occupational therapy department,\u00a0lent us\u00a0posters that his students created about backpack awareness, and we displayed the posters on our information table.<\/p>\n

We gathered at the Park City Mall on September 21st to teach school-aged children about backpack ergonomics.\u00a0School-age children passing by were invited to our table to learn how to wear their backpacks safely.<\/p>\n