Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!bentley!hoxna!houxm!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!alice!xchar From: xchar@alice.UUCP (Charles S. Harris) Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.med Subject: Re: British Design "Back" Chair Message-ID: <3192@alice.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Dec-84 00:50:47 EST Article-I.D.: alice.3192 Posted: Mon Dec 24 00:50:47 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Dec-84 02:39:35 EST References: <993@teddy.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 20 My wife has back trouble due to a "slipped" disk. She bought one of those cheap, imitation back chairs (on sale at $30 at Drug Fair) and assembled it. It wasn't too bad to look at, but in only 15 min of using it in front of the terminal, she started to feel pain in her sciatic nerve (the nerve which goes down the back of the leg and is often affected in cases involving disk problems). The discomfort persisted for hours after she got off the chair. We've returned it, and now wonder whether the problem was caused by the inferior design of the chair, the fact that my wife is short (5'2") and the chair wasn't adjustable, or other factors. Do back chairs help in ALL types of back trouble--muscular, disk, etc.--or just for certain kinds of back trouble? Would 8 hours of sitting in a back chair, in the only position that's possible, be any better than 8 hours of sitting in a regular chair, in a variety of positions? Has anyone with disk problems ever tried out the $175 Balans chair for a long period of use? --Charlie Harris, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (allegra|harpo|ulysses)!alice!xchar