As the new school year begins, school backpacks should fit correctly, an expert says.

As students prepare to go back to school, an expert is warning that lugging a heavy school bag could become a pain in the neck for some children.

Classes at Victorian state schools resume for 2016 on Thursday.

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Lower-back pain is one of the top three reasons that Americans go to the doctor. But the solution can be a DIY project.

Lower-back pain is very democratic in the people it strikes.

“It’s a universal experience. You’d be a really uncommon person never to have had an episode of back pain,” says Chris Maher, a physical therapist turned health researcher at the University of Sydney in Australia. “It’s a common problem across the whole of the globe,” he says, whether it’s North America, sub-Saharan Africa or rural India.

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