If/when I *must* go commercial, my back and Airbus seats don't get along. If I'm not "evil Reclining Guy" in those, I'll end up needing a Chiropractor after sitting in one for only two hours.
On our nice Boeing to Hawaii, I still couldn't do more than 3 hours in the seat, I had to get up and go stretch with my head hanging straight down while standing up. I was trying to be both out of the way and inconspicuous between the galley and the lavs in the back. I smiled and said, "Bad back" to the FA's who probably thought I was invading their gossip-space.
I've learned my lessons from previous flights... I won't be in pain for a month because of not pushing that little button.
I do try to move it very slowly and not when there's piles of stuff already on a person's tray table behind me, which is also different from the story above.
Ironically, most of these back/neck problems came from tossing people's airline luggage into the bellies of MD-80s in the early 1990s.
That and a sit-on-my-butt day job.
