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The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2507" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/25/the-tyranny-of-chairs" target="_blank"><strong>The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design - The Guardian</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>Most chairs aren’t designed to serve human bodies – but a better seat is possible. </strong></p><p></p><p>‘Let’s face the considerable evidence that all sitting is harmful,” writes Galen Cranz, a design historian whose book The Chair traces this object’s long history. Not <em>all</em> sitting, of course. For people who use wheelchairs, they’re an elegant and crucial technology. And sitting itself is not the culprit; any unchanging, repetitive motion or posture fails to give the body the variation it needs. But Cranz, writing primarily for an audience of ambulatory readers in industrialised and therefore sedentary societies, is one of many researchers who have been saying for decades that chairs are a major cause of pain and disability. </p><p></p><p>Sitting for hours and hours can weaken your back and core muscles, pinch the nerves of your rear end and constrain the flow of blood that your body needs for peak energy and attention. Most people’s bodies are largely unsuited to extended periods in these structures. Extensive research confirms that sitting in chairs is correlated, Cranz notes, with “back pain of all sorts, fatigue, varicose veins, stress and problems with the diaphragm, circulation, digestion, elimination and general body development”. There is growing evidence that relentlessly sedentary jobs – in some, such as bus driving and forklift operating, bodies are literally strapped to chairs – are harmful enough to shorten life expectancy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2507, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/25/the-tyranny-of-chairs'][B]The tyranny of chairs: why we need better design - The Guardian[/B][/URL] [B]Most chairs aren’t designed to serve human bodies – but a better seat is possible. [/B] ‘Let’s face the considerable evidence that all sitting is harmful,” writes Galen Cranz, a design historian whose book The Chair traces this object’s long history. Not [I]all[/I] sitting, of course. For people who use wheelchairs, they’re an elegant and crucial technology. And sitting itself is not the culprit; any unchanging, repetitive motion or posture fails to give the body the variation it needs. But Cranz, writing primarily for an audience of ambulatory readers in industrialised and therefore sedentary societies, is one of many researchers who have been saying for decades that chairs are a major cause of pain and disability. Sitting for hours and hours can weaken your back and core muscles, pinch the nerves of your rear end and constrain the flow of blood that your body needs for peak energy and attention. Most people’s bodies are largely unsuited to extended periods in these structures. Extensive research confirms that sitting in chairs is correlated, Cranz notes, with “back pain of all sorts, fatigue, varicose veins, stress and problems with the diaphragm, circulation, digestion, elimination and general body development”. There is growing evidence that relentlessly sedentary jobs – in some, such as bus driving and forklift operating, bodies are literally strapped to chairs – are harmful enough to shorten life expectancy. [/QUOTE]
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