Ergonomic Office Chairs

And yet again, we come to a chair which is simply horribly misused!

Not necessarily by the consumer… you… but by those who sell them! (Me!… well, not me… or I try, anyway!)

 

I’ll start with this example- on my site SitBetter.com, I refuse to sell those knee chairs.  You know what I’m talking about?  those chairs you sit on a small frame thing and rest your knees on a pad.  They are ’supposedly’ good for your back, but don’t really do much, in actuality, and in fact.. simply damage the knees!  Why destroy your knees, and cut off circulation to the feet, just in hope of relief of another body part!  So I put up a picture of a rock… here…. see for yourself… heh!

Anyway, I try to be a bit more ethical about things… and ergonomic anything is such a hot thing right now that there’s a ton of companies out there which… will sell you just anything!

Here’s another example:

Honestly…. no matter WHAT other websites might tell you, this is NOT an ergonomic chair!  It goes up and down…. it’s meant to sit in for an hour….

Don’t use it as an all day chair!

Again, people go down to Officestaplesdepotmax and buy these things for their employees to sit in for 8 hours…. and don’t even consider what sort of harm their doing!

 

Ok, ok, rant over!

 

A decent ergonomic chair has multiple adjustments, you’re able to modify the position of how you sit fairly easily, has adjustable arms, and minimizes the damage done to the body by sitting down all day long!  And note I said minimizes, for the human body was not meant to sit all day, and no matter what you sit in, you’re going to have some bit of damage!

so find a chair like the 43808, reasonably priced, has some good adjustments and is decently comfortable!  Or the other end of the scale is the Freedom chair by Humanscale (fantastic chair, IMHO). 

So this topic is simply far too long for one post… More to come!