The guide to adjust the lumbar support chair for a perfect position
Sitting for many hours a day, as happens in most work activities, can be particularly detrimental to our physique: a wrong position can lead to pain and discomfort that can even become chronic. Let's see together what an office chair should look like in order to ensure the greatest comfort and health of our body. Come and discover all our office chair models that can be purchased online.
The first step is certainly to buy an ergonomic chair, which has therefore been designed to best accommodate our body, since we have to sit for a long period of time. Moreover, it is important that this chair is adjustable, so that it can be adapted to our "measurements" (in particular the height). Furthermore, choosing a chair with lumbar support will allow us to avoid the annoying back pain that often results from incorrect postures. Let's see then how to adjust an office chair.
After having purchased our office chair we could ask ourselves what the knob under the office chair is for: in fact, in an ordinary chair, you cannot find this type of control. Actually, this knob allows us to adjust the height of the seat from the floor, the first step to have a comfortable and optimal position for our health. To adjust the height of the chair in the correct way we must use an empirical method, evaluating that the best height is the one that allows us to keep our elbows resting on the work surface forming a 90° angle. The same angle should be the one maintained by the knees: in this case, especially if we are much taller than average, we could also consider the option of buying a higher desk suitable for our height.
A great importance for a correct posture is that the armrests of the chair are also adjusted to the right height, because it is true that they are useful to let the arms rest during breaks, but at the same time they should be at a height that does not hinder the movements of the arms themselves. If your chair has adjustable armrests, the right height is the height at which the armrests touch your elbows while you are working on the keyboard and mouse.
Also very important is the inclination, using, when available, the mechanism of oscillation of the chair: the best ergonomic chairs, such as the Harper Directional Chair, or the Denver operative chair, are in fact equipped with this type of system so that the backrest moves and tilts according to the weight that your body rests on it. This is very important from the point of view of posture, because the backrest ends up supporting your body's movements, thus avoiding incorrect or uncomfortable positions. The presence of a lumbar support, to be inserted at lower back level, makes the office chair even more ergonomic and is particularly important for those people who already have back problems.
As far as backrest height adjustment is concerned, this is also a possibility offered by high-end ergonomic chairs. Using this system it is possible to adjust the backrest so that it follows the shape and curve of the back. Moreover, the possibility of adjusting the backrest also allows people of different heights to use the chair in the best possible way. To complete a perfect posture it is also important to adjust the height of the headrest, when present, in order to reduce neck problems.
