Pilgrim<br><br>I am not saying that this is the norm for long hair to cause these problems, but the weight of long hair is a strain to these areas.<br>Not long ago, I saw a documentary that was basically on the use of back packs on our children. The weight of these back packs is causing back, shoulder and other problems.<br> During this documentary it also mentioned how in some cases long hair in women can do the very same thing.<br>I believe you can also find information about these problems on the web. (Try the American Chiropractic Association)<br><br>I don't want to speculate on why in some cases long hair can cause these problems and to be quite frank; maybe I shouldn't even have mentioned this before I checked out all the facts behind this. But I didn't anticipate that this would be questioned, because the way it was explained to me made so much sense. Unfortunately I can't remember any of the details.<br><br>Tom