| Ergonomic seating refers to chairs that are | | | | muscles. |
| designed to make the user as comfortable as | | | | Ergonomic seating supports better blood flow |
| possible at the same time enabling the user to | | | | through the legs and supports the natural S-curve |
| work from that chair with the least amount of | | | | of the spine. As a result, workers using ergonomic |
| tension and stress on their bodies. Ergonomic | | | | seating experience fewer tension headaches, back |
| chairs provide both psychological as well as | | | | aches, sore necks and shoulder muscles as well as |
| physical benefits to the user because its design | | | | fewer strained muscles throughout the course of |
| accomplishes a number of positive things. This | | | | their work shift. Most importantly, ergonomic |
| type of seating helps to distribute the user's | | | | seating helps to eliminate the problem of workers |
| weight more evenly over the entire chair and | | | | developing repetitive stress injury due to |
| helps to reduce the amount of pressure felt by | | | | improper placement on the seat. Given a choice |
| any particular body point, resulting in a more | | | | between spending an endless amount of company |
| tension free work experience that reduces or | | | | funds on sick days, health insurance and physical |
| eliminates pain and stress on both the nervous | | | | therapy sessions to address such repetitive |
| system and the musculoskeletal framework of | | | | stress injuries as carpal tunnel syndrome, rotator |
| the body. | | | | cuff syndrome and chronic back pain or investing |
| Employees in offices where ergonomic office | | | | in ergonomic seating, many companies realize that |
| chairs has replaced a haphazard assortment of | | | | switching to ergonomic seating offers a lot more |
| regular office chairs at computer and typewriter | | | | benefits for the amount of money spent. |
| work stations report that they experience fewer | | | | Ergonomic seating is a proven method to |
| aching muscles after being seated for extended | | | | increasing not only worker productivity and |
| periods of time. Because each worker who uses | | | | satisfaction, but in reducing absenteeism as well as |
| ergonomic seating can adjust the height of the | | | | the amount the business must pay out in |
| seat to fit their body, they are no longer | | | | healthcare costs. It's healthy to workers as well |
| uncomfortably squashed into a generic chair in | | | | as advantageous to businesses to address stress |
| which their feet dangle over the sides or their | | | | injuries suffered by employees sitting on chairs |
| knees are bent at an uncomfortable angle. While | | | | that do not accommodate their bodies or the |
| seated in an ergonomic chair, the user feels well | | | | physical repetitive motions necessary to complete |
| balanced, with no undue strain or stress | | | | their tasks. Ergonomic seating provides pluses for |
| pressuring the neck, shoulders, arms, legs or back | | | | both employees and employers. |