
Office Chair Is Hurting You - jaden
https://elemental.medium.com/your-office-chair-is-hurting-you-882e07c20ff7
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m463
This makes me think about Wolfram's blog post about his "personal
infrastructure"

He found that for some reason typing while walking outside gave a much lower
heart rate than typing on a treadmill. So he worked out a system to walk
outside while typing...

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bigmit37
This is something I have been looking into as well. Those foods vendors carry
their supplies in that body addon but I wanted to walk around my apt and have
a couple of projectors setup so each wall has a copy of my monitor.

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poelzi
I had back problems from my crappy office chair that I used for more then a
decade.

I searched for month for a good replacement, sat on every chair I found in
nearly every furniture shop in town. After some month, I found the best chair
I ever sat on, and it's by far, not the most expensive one ;)

[http://www.officeline.se/products/hoganas-
eco/](http://www.officeline.se/products/hoganas-eco/)

This one is the hit, you can unlock the base so you can use it in different
heights. The backrest pressure you can adjust with a button, different locks
and full flexible arm rests. I let everybody test sit on it who cares and I
only heard excitement so far.

Combined with electric table I started to change my working position quite
often and my back pain was gone after a month.

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GoToRO
I bookmarked it, who knows. What I don't like about it is how wobbly it looks.
Also, why me, as a software developer do I need those wheels to move in any
direction. I just need to move back and forth and only when go or leave my
desk. On my chair I removed the wheels and put static legs and I put my table
on wheels that move only backward and forward. The wheels dig into the carpet,
so the table stays put if you don't push too hard.

For me office chair is one thing, and software developer chair should be
another.

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poelzi
They give 10 years warranty. I have quite some understanding in mechanical
systems and it is well build, thick steel plates.

The point is this, sitting long in one position is bad for your back and
general posterior. Of course you can change the rollers into static ones, but
I wouldn't recommend it.

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onemoresoop
It is true but one does not need a special chair as much as learning how to
sit on any chair. If the chair is really comfortable it invites the sitter in
really bad unnatural positions and in no time that creates a bad habit. During
my 20s, when I basically entered the workforce, I started having serious
issues with sitting. I tried a lot of different chairs and while they
ameliorated the pain and numbness something was still wrong. Now, almost at
twice that age I have very few chair/back related problems. When something
hurts I closely pay attention to how I sit. Of course, exercising with proper
posture has helped me overcome some of my issues as well. While most chairs
are really bad for most of us, I think chasing a perfect chair is not the
solution but learning how to sit and have a proper posture is the essential
part.

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blanche_
Sitting for extended period of time no matter how 'right' you do it is and
will be bad.

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onemoresoop
I agree. Breaks are a necessary part of the sitting hygiene no matter what
chair is used.

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kjaftaedi
_> Since yoga balls are made out of cheap plastic, it’s not a question of if
the ball will pop, but when._

I don't get the feeling this author has much experience with yoga balls, or is
just making a statement they want to believe is true and peddling it as fact.

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smileysteve
Anecdotally, I've had a yoga ball going on 4 years, though I only sit on them
occasionally. I've never heard of one popping, failure on the other hand, can
be a bouncing or tripping issue, also sliding off of the front. Though I
wouldn't call these catastrophic.

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SyneRyder
Leo Laporte's yoga ball popped live on air while recording his podcast. It
started with a slow leak:

[https://youtube.com/watch?v=S9A7ACL_n5Y](https://youtube.com/watch?v=S9A7ACL_n5Y)

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olyjohn
What about motorized desks that allow you to go from sitting to standing? I'm
not standing all day, and I'm not sitting all day. Plus I take a walk at least
once a day. It's helped me tremendously to have one.

I suppose it won't help that doctor sell his chairs, though.

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bigmit37
Standing seems to be the worst as it puts a lot of pressure on your veins.

With sitting if you sit cross-fold with legs not dangling at the edge it seems
to prevent v veins?

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Terretta
Highly recommend the Swopper ‘Active Sitting’ Chair if you can source it at a
reasonable price:

[https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=swopper+chair](https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=swopper+chair)

Bought one on Amazon in 2008, still love it.

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CrackerNews
The biggest takeaway from this article is the advice that you should not
adhere to the 90-90-90 sitting posture and instead raise your seat so that
your knees are below your hips. I've personally just tried this and it feels
much more comfortable.

I theorize that the 90-90-90 posture encourages bad habits where your spine
shifts backwards from the center so it is no longer supporting the upper parts
of your body well. By changing my sitting posture to the author's
recommendation, it feels easier for my spine to stay in the center and support
my upper body better.

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tboyd47
The chair looks awesome but unfortunately it's only 1/4 of the problem.
Schools need to change desks, keyboards, and the equipment itself, too.

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symmitchry
If standing is so terrible because of immobility perhaps a walking desk is the
ideal solution.

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