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Comment by nfw2

6 months ago

To a degree. I was tiny in school, always smallest kid in my grade, and lugging 30 pounds of books around every day means I now have scoliosis.

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Suppafly  6 months ago

>and lugging 30 pounds of books around every day means I now have scoliosis.

Doctors claim that heavy backpacks don't cause scoliosis, but can make the associated back pain worse.

BurningFrog  6 months ago

I would call it "schooliosis" if I were you.

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