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For those with lower-back issues, what's been the best work-chair for you?
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Me, I have a disease which is kinda wiping out my connective tissue over time, which includes those lovely soft discs in my spine, dammit. Biggest current issue with that is that it's getting harder and harder to sit at my desk for more than ~15min without lower back pain ratcheting up...
So I was wondering if anyone here with lower back issues has found a chair that helped them sit?
From L-R, T-B, chair #2 is a saddle chair, which looks kinda interesting. Chair #4 is one I used to have, which seemingly tries to keep the spine perfectly straight-up, but it was also hell on my knees.
Now, chair #3 kinda looks like a Star Trek-style bumper-car that I'd want to ride in my very last visit to an amusement park. π
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Exercise balls. After my boss bought a dozen for the workplace, I realized how much less my lower back was hurting. If I make an effort to also move my hip in various ways, it hurts even less. I decided to buy one myself to use when gaming on my PC. Works like a charm. Does my back still hurt? Yes. Has the exercise ball worked better and been more cost-effective than any other option thus far? Yes.
My problem is some kind of hypertension after overdoing cycling about six years ago. At least that's what they think. After having seen several specialists and doctors, they still don't know.
I have exercise-induced hypertension too and the docs can't figure that one either. It started around Covid. So did yours.
Covid killed everything. Nothing has been the same since.
People are... different too, and not in a good way either. I think we all died and this is purgatory or some shit.
And they're getting worse every time they catch it. Meanwhile, the UK government has found a solution! Tell doctors not to write sick notes π.
That thought never occurred to me. What the... Have you seen or heard or read any articles that talk about back pain among those that have been infected by covid or that have been vaccinated?
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8582844/
https://www.medbridge.com/blog/back-pain-a-lingering-effect-of-covid-19
Dang, I didn't know about this...
Damn, that's confusing.
So when you scale back with that specific exercise and test your blood pressure with a home kit, does it seem better..?
In the States, we used to have those as "Hobby-Horses" for us little kids to ride. I wouldn't even know how to choose one nowadays, nor what to do with one of those now, honestly.
i bought an exercise ball as a temporary measure until i could afford a decent chair but found it so comfortable i never bothered replacing it, until after about five years it lost its shape and became a big egg with an arse print in it. the problem with that is when it's warm you quickly get a sweaty undercarriage. so i bought a less complicated version of the kneeling chair in your fourth image like this one:
you can pay a fortune for a varier one or get one for a song from aliexpress etc. it has most advantages of a ball plus you can switch positions to have your feet on the floor, on the rails, on the pads, or some combination. i was worried i'd roll over my toe but it hasn't happened yet
I have a rocking kneeling chair from Sleekform, which I found a nice middle ground price and quality wise. I'm hyper mobile and have ADHD, so I appreciate being able to sit in a variety of ways on it. I tend to perch with my feet on the knee rests, tbh (I wear slippers in my office). I also rock in it when I need to fidget.
A lot of gyms and physical therapists have them, sometimes they're called "yoga balls" if you want to try one out. Just make sure you have something/someone to hold on to while you're trying it.
Some are advertised as "anti-burst" meaning if it breaks it's more likely to slowly deflate rather than pop - iirc bc it's made of thicker material. I had one of those and used it to sit on sometimes - it was fun but I ended up going with another chair.