Modern Express News (Reporter Yang Xiaodong Wen / Photo) Every day, you have to sit in a chair for a few hours? For many office workers, sitting at their workstations for a third of the day, low back pain has almost become an occupational disease. In order to alleviate the problems caused by sitting for a long time, the ergonomic chair is becoming more and more popular with everyone, so is it really talented or vain?
The ergonomic chair has become the first choice for many people to shop
With the emphasis on health and efficiency and the continuous upgrading of consumption levels, the demand and penetration rate of ergonomic home products is continuing to grow. On March 8, a Modern Express reporter came to a shopping mall and saw the ergonomic chairs being sold, and many customers were trying to sit and choose chairs that suited them. The reporter also chose two chairs to sit down, and by mediating the angle of the back tilt, the height of the back and the depth of the seat, he really felt that the waist was more comfortable.
△ Office chairs and e-sports chairs sold in shopping malls
According to the staff, these office chairs and e-sports chairs with adjustable height and depth adjustment and reclining back are considered ergonomic chairs. "These chairs are more suitable for sedentary people and have become the first choice for everyone to shop." He said that for many office workers, sitting for a long time is harmful to health, and these chairs have a more suitable spine-like waist design, adjustable cushions, armrests, and foot rests to make everyone feel more comfortable.
△ Ergonomic mouse
In addition, the reporter also saw monitor brackets, lifting tables, ergonomic mice and other products with "ergonomic" labels in the market. It is reported that ergonomics is essentially to make the use of tools as suitable as possible for the natural form of the human body, so that people can work, study, body and spirit do not need any active adaptation, so as to minimize the fatigue caused by the use of tools.
Xiao Li, who came to shop, told reporters that he just wanted to buy a moderately priced ergonomic chair to put in the office. "Many of my colleagues have bought new chairs, and I want to buy one, after all, the body is my own." Xiao Li said that he has been engaged in video editing for a long time, staying in front of the computer for seven or eight hours, "My colleague told me that there is no harm without comparison, and the chair he bought is much more comfortable than the original office chair." "
"Now more and more people buy their own ergonomic chairs to replace office chairs." Mr. Wang, an office worker, said that while making himself comfortable and improving work efficiency, why not enjoy this double thing?
If you want a good waist bar, lean on the chair and lean more on sports
"An ergonomic chair can reduce the fatigue of sitting in a chair for a long time to some extent." Yuan Bin, deputy chief physician of the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology of Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, told reporters that long-term sedentary, low-headed work will bring harm to physical health, injuring the cervical spine, injuring the shoulder, injuring the lower back, compressing the muscles behind the thighs, reducing perianal blood circulation to induce hemorrhoids, etc., so it is important to choose a chair suitable for yourself.
There are many kinds of chairs on the market, how to choose the right chair for yourself? Yuan Bin said that the chair does not have to be expensive, but it must be suitable for yourself, when buying a chair, you must personally try to sit, pay more attention to the following points: First, the height ratio, the height of the chair can be adjusted, choose the right height to place the arms on the workbench, the angle between the arms and the torso on the front chest should not exceed 60 °; the second is that there are armrests, the armrests on both sides of the chair can make the shoulder joints have support points, standing to support the knee joint burden; the third is to look at the backrest, the design curve of the chair backrest is more suitable for the spine, It can give the spine better support.
At the end of the day, it's not hard to have a good chair, but a good waist bar depends on the right work and study habits to really achieve the goal. "The way to avoid the dangers of sitting for a long time is to get up and exercise more." Yuan Bin said that just like students in class, every 40 minutes or so of sitting, they get up and walk, activities for 3-5 minutes, and do more exercise between work breaks in order to truly reduce the office diseases caused by sitting for a long time.