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  • Title: [Spinal load bearing during sitting in an office chair with a tilting back].
    Author: Rohlmann A, Wilke HJ, Graichen F, Bergmann G.
    Journal: Biomed Tech (Berl); 2002 Apr; 47(4):91-6. PubMed ID: 12051139.
    Abstract:
    Long periods of quiet sitting is considered a cause of low back pain. It is often assumed that spinal loads are high, especially when sitting erect. Modern office chairs with a tiltable back permit changes in the seated posture. In the most reclined position, some new chairs even match a kyphotic form of the lumbar spine. It is assumed that sitting on such a chair reduces low back pain. With the aim of determining spinal loading in different sitting positions, the loads acting on implanted fixation devices were measured telemetrically in two patients. Loads were measured in patients sitting on six different chairs with tiltable backs. In modern chairs, implant loading was always lower than while walking. In the end-tilt position of the chairback, loads were always lower than when the chairback was upright. Even when the lordotic curvature of the lumbar spine was "corrected", loads on the fixator were lower than when the subject was seated in the upright position. In a modern chair, spinal loading is no higher than with non-adjustable office chairs.
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