| Ergonomic chairs are used for the purpose of | | | | pressure of your body weight depletes oxygen |
| supporting the skeletal posture, when sitting to | | | | from the tissues around the pelvic bones and |
| perform work-based activities in daily living. | | | | starves them of oxygen. Your body will tell you |
| In many situations, the ergonomic chair is used by | | | | when the area needs more oxygen, by your |
| different-sized people, which means that it should | | | | need to change positions. |
| have a mechanism to adjust the chair to fit all | | | | If you do not change positions, then the tissue |
| their comfort needs. | | | | cells will be starved of oxygen and the tissues will |
| To do this the ergonomic chair must have a seat | | | | 'necrode' or begin to die. This is a danger in people |
| slide mechanism. This type of mechanism will | | | | with spinal cord injuries, who sit in wheelchairs; |
| shorten or lengthen the base in the chair, for | | | | because they have lost the vital nerve |
| reducing or lengthening the basal support that to | | | | information that informs their body they need |
| accommodate different height people. | | | | more oxygen in the cells. |
| The seat slide is a mechanism (as shown in the | | | | If people with spinal injuries do not learn a strict |
| resource page box) fitted to an ergonomic chair | | | | regime of lifting their pelvic area at least every 5 |
| that easily changes the seat length to be shorter | | | | minutes that relieves pressure off their pelvic |
| or longer, so that your correct basal support is | | | | area; they will suffer bed sores, which is the |
| accommodated. | | | | beginning process of necrosis or death of tissues. |
| The correct seat measurement for your seat | | | | Ergonomic chairs are vital for people who have |
| length is measured by placing four fingers in the | | | | any discomforts in their skeletal joints which |
| space between the seat and the back of your | | | | impairs functional mobility. They are important to |
| knees. | | | | provide the correct skeletal support, so that any |
| Anything shorter than four fingers in length will cut | | | | pressure is evenly distributed throughout the |
| off the blood supply to your legs for prolonged | | | | whole body. |
| sitting. And anything longer will provide inadequate | | | | Every person is a different shape and size, which |
| support in the base that supports your body in | | | | means the ergonomic chairs need to |
| the pelvic area for long-term sitting. | | | | accommodate all proportions, if they use the |
| The reason that you're basal support is so critical | | | | same chair. A Seat Slide fitted into the seat |
| in an ergonomic chair is because the greatest | | | | mechanism will provide the necessary changes to |
| proportion of your body weight is directed to this | | | | the ergonomic chair, so that it will adapt to the |
| area. Your body weight needs to be distributed | | | | shape of each person sitting the chair. The chair |
| across the largest surface area possible in the | | | | will then provide the correct ergonomic basal |
| base, for comfort and support in the pelvic region. | | | | support and comfort to their pelvic region. |
| When you are sitting on your abdomen, the | | | | |