You may have learned some general knowledge for a better office posture from various online articles.
However, do you really know how to set up your office desk and chair properly for a better posture?
GDHERO will provide you FOUR secrets.
Adjust your chair as high as possible.
Use a foot pad to support your feet.
Shift your buttocks to therear edge.
Move the chair very close to the desk.
Let's explain those secrets ONE BY ONE.
1. Adjust your chair as high as possible.
This is probably the most important secret regarding the better office posture. Lowering down the chair is the most common mistake we see in the workplace.
Whenever you have a relative low chair, your office desk becomes relative high. Therefore, your shoulders stay elevated during the whole office hours.
Could you imagine how tight and fatigue your shoulder elevating muscles are?
2. Use a foot pad to support your feet.
Since we have elevated the chair in the previous step, the foot pad becomes essential for most people (except ones with very long legs) to alleviate the low back stress.
It's all about the mechanical chain balance. When you sit high and no support available underneath the feet, the gravity dragging force of your leg would add extra downwards tension at your low back.
3. Shift your buttocks to the rear edge.
Our lumbar spine has a natural curve called lordosis. In terms of maintaining the normal lumbar lordosis, moving your buttocks all the way back to the rear edge of chair is a very effetive solution.
If the chair is designed with a lumbar support curve, then your low back would become very relaxed after shifting the buttocks backwards. Otherwise, please but a thin cushion between your low back and the chair back.
4. Move the chair very close to the desk.
This is the second important secret regarding the better office posture. Most people setup their office workstation in a wrong way and keep their arm in a forward reaching position.
Again, this is a mechanical imbalance issue. Prolonged forward arm reaching could increase the tension of muscles located at the medial part of the scaular area (i.e. between the spine and scapular). As the result, annoying pain at mid-back area alongside the scapular occurs.
In summary, better office posture relies on the good understanding of human mechanical balance.
Post time: Jul-06-2023