Getting old?

My laptop sits on the kitchen counter and I spend a huge portion of the day sitting on one of the barstools typing away. Usually, I will be in mid sentence and wonder why does my back hurt and then notice that i am curved over the keyboard like a "U". I straighten out, push my shoulders back and vow to keep better posture, but it never lasts more than a few seconds. In fact, i have straightened up four times since beginning this post!

Part of me thinks it might be the bar stool that contributes to the bad posture and resulting sore back, but realistically, where the laptop is, the barstool is the only kind of chair that will fit! I tried some stools out with backs (the ones we have a plain jane wooden stools, no padding, no backs) But I felt that if i made use of the back on them i would be too far back from the laptop and that would mean I would stop using the back and then what is the point of buying them in the first place?

(run on sentence much LOL)


So. Because I am suffering more and more from a sore back, I am thinking about getting a posture correction brace. I wonder if it would be too hot to wear in the summer? I have heard that if you wear a brace for a few months your body eventually re learns the proper posture it needs and then you can go off it....

Do any of you use anything like that? Should I get one? Hubs thinks it would be a good idea...