As part of Chiropractic Awareness Week (april 14th to 20th), we at Cliffs Chiropractor Southend on Sea are encouraging parents to limit the time their children spend using technology and instead encourage more active pastimes over the Easter holidays.
In a recent survey undertaken by the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) nearly half (46%) of parents questioned acknowledged that their children don’t spend enough time exercising, despite NHS guidelines stating that children and young people between 5 and 18 years old need to do at least one hour of physical activity every day.[1]
Our team of experienced chiropractors in Southend on Sea are seeing more and more people under the age of sixteen with back and neck pain and technology is so often the cause. Young people are becoming increasingly sedentary which is damaging their posture.
We encourage parents and kids to get some exercise this Easter and one of the best and most overlooked forms of exercise is walking.
The great news is that there are some great places to take walks around Southend on Sea.
Here is a link to the WalkinginEssex website which has a list of walks around the Southend on Sea area includding:
- Benfleet to Leigh on Sea train walk
- Hadleigh walks
- Hockley walk
- Leigh on sea walk
- Rochford to Burnham on Crouch train walk
- Southend on Sea to Hockley train walk
So come on all you parents and kids – get outdoors this Easter and take some exercise.
Research was commissioned in 2014 on a sample of 461 UK parents with children aged between 11 and 16 from a wider sample of 1000 parents.
* Statistics taken from 2014 BCA research of UK adults – sample of 152 adults from the East of England.