New Delhi, May 11 -- justify;">A constant worry for parents of school-going kids is the ever-growing size of the school bag and the stresses this may place on the spine. Parents are worried that poor posture and heavy school bags would cause permanent damage to their child's spine but experts claim nothing could be further from the truth.

Let us take posture, for example. In an interview with HT lifestyle, Dr Parthasarathy Srinivasan, Senior Consultant - Orthopaedics at Rela Hospital in Chennai, shared, "Posture is a function of situation, confidence, muscle strength and fatigue. Most children will slouch when they are at home or around their parents and will sit upright at an examination or when in the presence of authority, they fear. ...