3. Sit up straight
You were probably reminded about sitting up straight all the way through your childhood and well into your teens. The truth is that everyone needs to maintain good posture at all times to help ward off the threat of all different kinds of back pain.
Sitting can be an especially big challenge for back pain sufferers when it comes to achieving a correct posture, as in many cases sitting up straight can feel like the thing that is causing the pain. The short term awkwardness and discomfort of correcting sitting posture is worth it for the long term impact that this could have on reducing upper back pain.
Humans weren’t really designed with sitting in mind and so in many respects, we have to make the best of a bad job, by maintaining an upright posture most of the time in an attempt to stop our backs from irregular bending or twisting.