| > | | | | alternative of some sort. When I first identified |
| Home office furniture should not make us suffer. | | | | my chair as a problem, I bought a large exercise |
| Here are some alternatives to relieve pain due to | | | | ball to use. Using this instead of a chair is |
| use of poorly designed furniture. As someone | | | | supposed to increase core strength, which is |
| who has worked at home for many years, I find | | | | supposed to help align the back and neck. Great. I |
| home office furniture to be both rather mundane, | | | | found that that was the case for approximately |
| yet at the same time, important. Mundane, | | | | two seconds. Maybe I just didn't try hard enough, |
| because it's just stuff. Important, because it's | | | | but I found that before I knew it I had figured |
| stuff we need to help us be more productive and | | | | out a way to return to my old familiar, damaging, |
| comfortable. However, sometimes the need leads | | | | posture. |
| to problems that can plague us, and even alter | | | | My acupuncturist suggested a kneeling chair. This |
| our lives. I am talking about physical difficulties like | | | | is sort of a unique piece of home office furniture |
| carpal tunnel and back pain. Nobody should have | | | | that was in vogue a few years back. I see why |
| to put up with furniture that causes pain. | | | | these would be good. Knees lower than hips, no |
| One of the central pieces of home office furniture | | | | back to lean back against, and an angled seat that |
| that has given people more grief than perhaps | | | | pretty much forces one to sit upright. I |
| any other is the office chair. We plop down in our | | | | remembered that my Grandpa had one of these |
| favorite leather office chair and assume the | | | | so I borrowed it and gave it a whirl. I soon |
| position. Rounded back, slouched, head cranked | | | | realized that, while it did solve some of the |
| back. Wow! Perfect. Yeah, perfect for back and | | | | problems inherent with regular office chairs, it also |
| neck problems. I am currently dealing with the | | | | had a few of its own. I didn't like the pressure on |
| effects of sitting for too many years in front of | | | | my knees, and I found the tendency to lean |
| a computer without paying close enough attention | | | | forward to be irritating and distracting. |
| to my posture. I am in pain all the time. My upper | | | | A unique piece of home office furniture that I am |
| back suffers from postural kyphosis and I am | | | | seriously considering is a standup desk. This would |
| searching for an answer. I am but one. There are | | | | mean that I would no longer sit to work at all. I |
| thousands, if not millions, of people who can relate | | | | would have to get used to it, but from what I |
| to what I am saying. So what is the answer? | | | | have read, this is worth the discomfort in the end. |
| I don't know what the solution is for everyone's | | | | My work surface, keyboard, and monitor would all |
| postural related pain, but I do know that there | | | | be at standing level. Sounds pretty cool. |
| are some home office furniture options that can | | | | Home office furniture is what we make it. It is |
| be considered. One of them is to get rid of your | | | | best if we make it serve us as effectively as |
| chair and replace it with something else. Give it to | | | | possible, with as little negative impact on our |
| someone, throw it away, donate it to charity, or | | | | health as possible. |
| whatever. Instead of using a desk chair, get an | | | | |