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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Jeffrey_Friedl on 2025-10-29 13:39:16+00:00.

Earlier this year I developed serious neck pain. Crunching noises as I turned my head side to side. Increasinly painful. Unbearable. The fourth doctor I saw prescribed one of those neck braces that car-accident victims wear. The future looked bleak.

Fifth doctor said that my head-forward posture was the problem. A lightbulb went off. I’m a self-employed programmer, and for the last decade I’ve done my work at home on a laptop while sitting in a very comfortable La-z-Boy recliner. This posture, as comfortable as it is (very), requires my head to lean foward, and a decade of that posture had caused my condition.

(I went directly from the doctor to an electronics shop to buy a monitor and stand, and within three months of normal working-at-a-desk posture, my issues was completely cured. So lucky to have found that fifth doctor.)

TL;DR: a decade’s comfortable posture for computer work lead to life-changing pain (until a doctor set me straight).