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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. ๐
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Ah, good...I mean, bad, but I'm glad that it suggests that it might help.
One more suggestion
a number of sunloungers are available in (nylon, I guess?) mesh. For them, I think it's to help water drain if the sunlounger is outside and gets rained on.
However, mesh is also popular with some higher end office chairs, like Aerons, since it lets airflow carry away sweat; if someone is sitting on the thing for eight hours a day, it becomes a factor. I've used those (both Aeron and some more-affordable knockoffs) and I've generally liked them, other than the fact that I found the hard front edge up towards one's knees that supports the mesh to put more pressure on my legs than I like and get uncomfortable. However, if you find a sunlounger that doesn't have a bar sticking across your upper legs for supporting the mesh
and many seem not to
you probably won't run into that issue. Might be able to take advantage of some of the perks of pricy office chairs that way.
Also, I don't know if the cost is an issue. If this is a desk at work, if it were me, I'd probably just get it myself and cruise into the office with it myself so as to just choose whatever I want...but if you're (a) in the US and (b) it counts as being handicapped, I believe that there is some obligation under the Americans with Disabilities Act for your employer to make reasonable efforts to mitigate a handicap if you can still effectively do the job with those mitigations. I can't cite specifics off the top of my head, but it may include picking up something like this. Might be something to look into, if it's relevant to your situation.