It's true ! I have all three, and now my legs and upper back hurt instead !

Thank you, ergonomics !

I'm using a "laying chair" which is superior for posture

Actually my back hurts because your mother damaged it with her large mass when we were engaged in coitus.

real solution for most people would be to start exercising

Your back hurts because you keep the same posture even when your body tells you not to.

When you have a job, and say work for 3-4 hours, your body will tell you to stop and do something else for a couple hours. But you can’t cause life.

The ergonomic stuff are fulfilling their purpose by giving you a decent posture, your just holding it too long.

This is also why being rich would be a solution, even those who are rich but work, they aren’t working 40 hours every week nonstop. It’s also why they are so keen that “golf meetings” are so effective.

If you can help it, taking short breaks in between long work hours and stretching goes a long way without buying anything outrageous.

RSIBreak on Linux Workrave on Windows.

I think both are multi platform but I've had problems making them work in the other OS.

I'm a personal trainer, I've destroyed two lumbar discs, gotten disc replacement surgery and currently working with a physiotherapist to get back on track. Back pain can have many causes. Anything from disc degeneration to muscle imbalances. If you're not in pain that prevents you from doing them, there are a few exercises my physiotherapist has me doing.

• Glute bridge to activate your glutes. Underactive glutes can cause you to compensate with your lower back muscles, causing overuse.
• Prone cobra for strengthening your back muscles.
• Plank and side plank for strengthening your abdominals, obliques and deeper core muscles
• Lying hamstring stretch. Tight hamstrings, common in people who are sedentary or sit a lot for work, can cause referred lower back pain.
• Kneeling hip flexor stretch. Hip flexors are also commonly tight in people who are sedentary or sit a lot. Can cause a muscle imbalance with the posterior chain, altering the length-tension relationship in the muscles.

But if you have more severe lower back pain, go see a doctor and get an MRI if necessary to find out if there's something going on with your discs. Don't just try to work through pain and ignore the problem. That's what I did, and it just made things worse. You may not necessarily need surgery, but it's good to find the root cause so you know what options you have.

have standing desk, always lowered

Nah it's because I don't have enough monitors.

Need a 4th one to balance things out nicely

TL;DR your back hurts because you're poor.

"Hmmm, I'm going to write you a prescription for 75% more RGB LED backlighting"

no, my lower back hurts because i got impaled there. it hurts less because i have a chair with a double rocker and well positioned monitors

I have all those things, but my back hurts because I fucked it up on my 20's moving file cabinets at a minimum wage job.

I do consider it the reason i don't have carpal tunnel after 30 years of IT/Code/Sysadmin though.

I hate that planking is the best exercise for strengthening your lower back. They’re just so boring to do.

No it hurts cause I do manual labor

While dumb expensive the Aeron chair makes sitting at a desk all day do able and not painful.

I use a trackball mouse. That must be why my back is doing great.

I could have sworn it was due to the severe injury I sustained, but who am I to argue with science?

What if you’re in construction?