| Did you know one of the biggest health issues | | | | I speak of this problem somewhat farcically but it |
| plaguing office workers is lower back pain? Why | | | | is definitely a real problem throughout the office |
| would this condition most would attribute to lifting | | | | world. There are all kinds of expensive classes |
| heavy objects be such a prominent condition | | | | you can take to help with posture and breathing: |
| among those working in an office environment? If | | | | Tai Chi, Qigong, Alexander technique. While very |
| you are sitting down reading this, look no further | | | | helpful, these classes are quite expensive and |
| than right behind you. Office chairs are not | | | | time consuming. Why not fix the problem at its |
| designed to give proper support during use. They | | | | origin? If not, you will have invested all that time |
| are designed to provide a place to sit, however | | | | and money only to step into that office and sit |
| uncomfortably, and at the least cost possible. | | | | down in the same uncomfortable chair that |
| Your boss' big comfy chair is more suited to | | | | started the pain. Something as simple as a lumbar |
| provide adequate support on those long days | | | | pillow can make a world of difference to an old |
| meeting with current or potential clients, reading | | | | uncomfortable chair. For the same price as a |
| through reports, or talking on the phone to a | | | | weekend of breathing exercises and posture |
| facilities manager in China for two hours. Well | | | | techniques you could have a permanent solution |
| guess what, he is the boss so he is entitled to | | | | to a recurrent problem. A well manufactured chair |
| that $2000 chair that massages, heats, cools, and | | | | with a built-in lumbar support can turn a long, |
| probably dispenses coffee from a tap in the arm. | | | | painful week behind a desk into a long, productive |
| We have all tried to sit up straighter and take the | | | | week behind a desk. I am sorry to say a new |
| occasional stretch break, but by the end of the | | | | chair won't make the job any easier, but it will |
| day, even a Monday, we all find ourselves | | | | leave you feeling a little more rejuvenated by the |
| slouched over our keyboard wondering if 5pm is | | | | time 5 o'clock rolls around. |
| ever going to come. | | | | |