| See PainScience for a thorough discussion: https://www.painscience.com/articles/chair-trouble.php Relevant excerpts: > The importance of extremely comfy and ergonomically dazzling chairs is exaggerated. There is simply no such thing as a perfect chair: your body isn’t comfortable with any position for hours at a time. The problem isn’t the position that your body is in, but the lack of motion, exertion, and variety of stimulation, and no chair can solve that. > The best chair might just be two or three simple-but-different chairs used in rotation, including or used in conjunction with an destabilizing cushion, such as a Disc-O-Sit or Sissel Sit, or a fitness ball. > In my office, I have a standard office chair and a stool, both of which I use in combination with a Disc-O-Sit for plenty of variety. > And, if you still want a good chair, and if you’ve got the cash, by all means — get yourself a fancy chair! I did. I worried about the cost until I sat in it. I’ve now been sitting in it without buyer’s remorse for about 12 years. (The chair he bought and is referring to is the popular Aeron chair) |