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Assuming you're a fairly typical poster here and you're someone in your mid-30s and you're able-bodied and uninjured, but you have back pain.

Nor is it sore because of your posture. Humans requiring a specific posture to stand or sit at is nonsense.

It's sore because it's weak. It's tired. it's sore like your forearms get sore when you carry all the shopping inside in one trip. You have a weak back, so any time you use it at all it gets sore.

The reason your back was sore from gardening or carrying boxes or doing any activity isn't because you're past your prime and that's just normal for someone in your grand old age. It's just because you don't do any activity and now you've done activity and it's sore. That's the same kind of sore you get when you do some squats and your legs are sore. You did something you're not used to. It's no different for your back.

If you want to fix your chronic back pain, try training it. Do some deadlifts. Do some rows. Lift some stuff occasionally. Your back pain will largely go away. Ta-da.