Best Office Chair

I cannot begin to tell you how important having a good ergonomic office chair is.

Most of us who spend hours in out chair on the computer will suffer some degree of back related pain and suffering sometime in our lives.

The main reason most of us will end up with back issues will not be because of how much we lift, or how much we bend or a slip and fall, but because of a poorly designed and manufacture office chair.

If you spend more than 2 hours a day 4-5 days week in computer desk chair, weather in your home office or at work, then you must have a properly designed and tested to ergonomic, adjustable office chair.

Most of the generic office chairs you get in a Office Depot or a Staples or Wal-Mart will not give you the back support or the wide range of adjustment you need to have the office chair perfectly contoured to fit your unique body type.

Sure you can go out and get a office chair for $45-$100 bucks but the pain and suffering you will have in a few months time, and the time and money spent in the chiropractor will most certainly be counter productive.

Here are a few things you need to look out for when purchasing an ergonomic office chair.

You need a chair that does not force you to sit too far below the surface of your desk; this will cause you to shrug your shoulders in an effort to keep your hands and arms on the desk. Over time, this creates problems with a completely different set of muscles and tendons. Your chair should allow you the choice to raise or lower the height in accordance with the height of your desk.

In addition, your computer monitor should be in the centre of your natural eye view.

Support for the natural S-curve of your back is key to long term seating comfort and to eliminate lower back strain and discomfort, especially for extended sitting. The backrest of your chair should be able to recliner up to recline 25 º angles easily. The best office chairs should have a tilt mechanism that allows for a full 45º of recline for total relaxation to give your back a rest for a few minutes.

The armrest of the chair should also be adjustable and should be able to lift to the height of your desk or keyboard.

Make sure the backrest can be adjusted up or down to properly adjust to your height, and that the support section of the backrest is right at your lower back S-curve for maximum support.

The backrest should not stop half way up your back but extent all the way up to cover the full length of the back and lower neck.

So make sure that all the basic elements are present in the chair that you will spend a lot of your time. It will be well worth it and your back and neck will thank you for it.

Edward Knight