Posture Corrector Back Brace for Men and Women, Patented Back Support

I have struggled and suffered from back pain for most of my life. I remember being in school and my backpack being so heavy sometimes, that it was hard to carry on my back. I would have to rotate it from my back to my front while walking to or from school. The pain would be so intense sometimes it would distract me from class. All my brain could concentrate on was the burning and tingling sensation in my neck and in between my shoulder blades. I would try to massage it to relieve the pain but it was never enough. I would beg my little brothers, friends, and parents, literally anyone I could, to dig their elbows into my shoulder blade muscles. They could dig their elbow into my muscles for hours and I am telling you, it never was enough. The second they would stop the pain would be there again and hurt even worse. You know when your foot falls asleep and you get that fuzzy tingling feeling? Well it was like that, but more like pins and needles. It would tingle all day long and then burn all night from tingling all day it seemed like. Due to the heavy backpack, my posture was horrible. I constantly struggled with my posture, even into my adult life and to this very day. I try to roll my shoulders back on my own, but I always feel like I looked unnatural As if I was trying to hard, and trying to push out my chest. I have known for awhile now that I needed help with this, so I began to look for something to help me with my posture. My grandma use to warn me if didn't fix my posture, that I would end up looking like the hunch back of Notre dame! Nobody wants that! Plus in my adult life, my pain tolerance has dwindled from the many years of suffering from the constant pain in my shoulders. Enough was enough. I am so thankful I found this product! I have been wearing it ever since I bought it and I can already feel a huge difference in my posture and pain! So far the painful tingling and burning has almost completely gone away, as long as I have this brace on! It is so easy to use and put on, and even easier to adjust it all by yourself. The padding is great! Making it very comfortable, so I am able to wear this brace all day long without any discomfort. I was worried it would make me look/feel funny, but it helps pull back my shoulders and also looks helps me look natural while doing so. You can wear this easily over your clothes or under it, if you want or need it hidden. I especially love wearing this while working because I dont have to constantly think about and remind myself to pull my shoulders back, because this helps me automatically do so. Which also helps keep me pain free while I work. I can't say enough great things about this awesome product! If you struggle with your posture and keeping your shoulders rolled back on your own, then this is exactly what you need! Look no further! I promise you will not be disappointed. I have suffered for years with this annoying tingling and burning sensation and to finally have a break from it is Amazing! Beyond words! I am so thankful for this product and hope one day it completely trains my body into having and maintaining great posture. So thankful that it is comfortable to wear and easy to use, and that it ACTUALLY works. Thank you so much for creating such an awesome product, that actually does what it says. I couldn't be more satisfied and thankful for my purchase. Thank you thank you! A million times thank you!

Since leaving school and starting work, I've been having some of the same issues as "normal folks", that is, a more sedentary lifestyle mainly because I sit on my butt at work all day.As a result, my posture has suffered with the dreaded nerd hunch. I've been looking for different things that can help, and then found this device.The construction of this thing is pretty simple. There's the main body of the brace that sits on your spine, with velcro adjustable stretch straps that you put around your shoulders. It is essentially a pair of backpack straps (but without the weight and bulk, of course). There's not a lot of things to go wrong with this device, and at least for the device that I got, nothing that sticks out as defective. The only thing I find annoying are the velcro straps themselves, because if you are unfortunately just the right size that these go under your arms, they can be pretty annoying to have to adjust to get comfortable. I'm thinking that if the velcro straps were adjusted from the top anchor point rather than the bottom, that would actually be more comfortable.This device does two things. First and most obviously, it pulls your shoulders back. Secondly, the spine brace exerts most of that force into the area around the C7 vertebra (the one that kind of sticks out a bit from the 'bottom of your neck' between your shoulders- you also use this vertebra as a measuring point when you're fitting yourself for hiking backpacks). So what happens is your shoulder pulls back into a more normal position and your head/upper back is straightened out a bit more. You have to remember to relax your shoulders once you're in this pose (the one thing the device doesn't really do), and then you'll have a very normal posture.Anecdotally, I always find my posture to be much improved after I've come back from a backcountry backpacking trip (and my posture suffered after I stopped wearing a backpack and going to the gym for several months after leaving school), so the idea of backpack style straps putting corrective tension around the shoulders and upper back makes sense to me.What I typically do is adjust the device so that when I stretch my shoulders all the way back, they're loose. This gives me a moderate amount of pull and makes the device pretty comfortable to wear, but it still does a very effective job both correcting my posture and reminding me to correct my posture. When I first got it, I started wearing it for the entire work day, but afterwards it can be more occasional once you notice an improvement for your posture.Fighting "the slouch" is going to be a lifelong battle, and this one device is not going to be the cure-all by itself. I've had to make more lifestyle changes in order to not slouch. The first is using this device, which definitely helps. The second involves the usual diet and exercise. The third is to remind yourself not to get into bad habit of slouching when you're not wearing the device. And the fourth is proper adjustment of seating and work space.

Purchased this brace to improve upper back and neck posture. I’m 5”7’ 150 lbs. No pain issues. First time made a very noticeable improvement in posture although I needed help to donn the brace and several adjustment attempts until I got the correct one for me. After a week I was able to wear the brace for a couple of hours, but noticed the followings: 1. adjustment straps required more of a stretch to obtain the posture correction. 2. When moving around and about - I am always on the move at a small horse ranch - the brace shifts: looks like the center piece in the back rotates higher up to the very top of my upper back, and the adjustment straps rotate with it under my arm pits. This results in loss of posture correction and cannot be fixed by just just trying to derogate the brace. It has to be undone and then re-done. It’s been 3 weeks now and the straps have lost more elasticity. Donning the brace like a back pack doesn’t work for me and I follow the advice given in one of the videos. In summary: this brace worked very well for me for a short period of time and then it started losing its functionality. I would think that other posture correction braces with a similar design would have similar issues.