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Promoting healthier posture whether sitting or standing. SpineSaver: It's Got Your Back!
The saddle design encourages users to adopt a position that reduces strain on muscles, ligaments and joints
Saddle height range: with standard cylinder: 21½" - 29½" with extended cylinder: 24½" - 34½" Saddle angle range: 20°rearward, 6° forward Backrest (optional): standard back: 12½" wide x 8" high high back: 12½" wide x 12" high Arms (optional): all Built2Last arm options are available Base options: black nylon (standard), polished aluminum, trumpet (fixed) Caster options: carpet casters (standard), polished aluminum, braking, reverse braking, glides (fixed)
Health Risks - See what major medical research is finding out about the health risks of sitting too much, sitting disease and more:
Profit Magazine - "Sitting At Your Desk Is Slowly Killing You" QZ.com - "Why Not Even Exercise Will Undo The Harm Of Sitting All Day And What You Can Do About It" NYU Physician, Fall 2012 – “Restoring a body in motion”
Mayo Clinic – "What are the risks of sitting too much?”
The Lancet – “Effect of physical inactivity”
BMJ Open – “Sedentary behavior and life expectancy in the USA”
Pennington Biomedical Research Center – “Cutting Daily Sitting Time Might Extend Life by Two Years”
British Journal of Sports Medicine – “Too much sitting: an important predictor of chronic disease risk?”
Archives of Internal Medicine – “Sitting Time and All-Cause Mortality Risk”
Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute – “Office study makes a stand for better health”
Forbes – “Get Up, Stand Up, For Your Life”Harvard Business Review – “Sitting is the Smoking if Our Generation”Washington Post - "The Health Hazards of Sitting"
- Sit for more than 6 hours a day & you are significantly more likely to die from a chronic disease
Fung TT., Hu FB., Yu J.,ChuNF., Spiedelman D., Tofler GF.,
Willett WC., Rimm EB. 2000. Leisure-Time Physical Activity, Television
Watching, and Plasma Biomarker of Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease
Risk. American Journal of Epidemiology. 152(12):1171-1178.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11130623Healy
GN., Wijndaele K., Dunstan DW., Shaw JE., Salmon J., Zimmet PZ., Owen
N. 2008. Objectively Measured and Sedentary Time, Physical Activity, and
Metabolic Risk. Diabetes Care. 31(2):369-371
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/31/2/369.full.pdfKatzmarzyk
PT., Church TS., Craig CL., Bouchard C. 2009. Sitting Time and
Mortality from All Causes Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer. Med Sci
Sports Exerc. 41(5): 998-1005
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19346988Owen
N., Bauman A., Brown W. 2009. Too much sitting: a novel and important
predictor of chronic disease risk? Br J Sports Med. 43(2).
http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/43/2/81.extractPatel
AV., Bernstein L., Deka A., Spencer Feigelson H.,CampbellPT., Gapstur
SM.,ColditzGA., Thun MJ. 2010. Leisure Time Spent Sitting in Relation to
Total Mortality in a Prospective Cohort of US Adults. American Journal
of Epidemiology. 172(4): 419-429.
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2010/07/21/aje.kwq155.fullPerry LS. 2012. Standing Up, Redesigning the Workplace to Address Obesity. Professional Safety. 52(6):77-84 http://www.ergostoreonline.com/media/pdfs/standing-up-to-obesity.pdf
- Sitting all day is dangerous for your health even if you workout & make healthy food choices
Katzmarzyk PT., Church TS., Craig CL., Bouchard C. 2009.
Sitting Time and Mortality from All Causes Cardiovascular Disease, and
Cancer. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 41(5): 998-1005
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19346988Owen
N., Bauman A., Brown W. 2009. Too much sitting: a novel and important
predictor of chronic disease risk? Br J Sports Med. 43(2).
http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/43/2/81.extractPerry LS. 2012. Standing Up, Redesigning the Workplace to Address Obesity. Professional Safety. 52(6):77-84http://www.ergostoreonline.com/media/pdfs/standing-up-to-obesity.pdfPatel
AV., Bernstein L., Deka A., Spencer Feigelson H.,CampbellPT., Gapstur
SM.,ColditzGA., Thun MJ. 2010. Leisure Time Spent Sitting in Relation to
Total Mortality in a Prospective Cohort of US Adults. American Journal
of Epidemiology. 172(4): 419-429.
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2010/07/21/aje.kwq155.full
- Stand & increase the blood flow to your brain, improving focus & alertness
Pronk NP., KatzAS.Lowry M. Payfer JR. 2012. Reducing
Occupational Sitting Time and Improving Worker Health: The Take-a-Stand
Project, 2011. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2012/11_0323.htm
- Stand & alleviate back pain & other repetitive strain injuries
Husemann B., Von Mach CY., Borsotto D., Zepf KI., Scharnbacher
J. 2009. Comparisons of Musculoskeletal Complaints and Data Entry
Between a Sitting and a Sit-Stand Workstation Paradigm. Human Factors
and Ergonomics Society. 51(3):310-320.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19750794Perry LS. 2012. Standing Up, Redesigning the Workplace to Address Obesity. Professional Safety. 52(6):77-84http://www.ergostoreonline.com/media/pdfs/standing-up-to-obesity.pdf
- Stand & improve your blood cholesterol, triglycerides & your blood sugar
Fung TT., Hu FB., Yu J.,ChuNF., Spiedelman D., Tofler GF.,
Willett WC., Rimm EB. 2000. Leisure-Time Physical Activity, Television
Watching, and Plasma Biomarker of Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease
Risk. American Journal of Epidemiology. 152(12):1171-1178.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11130623Healy
GN., Wijndaele K., Dunstan DW., Shaw JE., Salmon J., Zimmet PZ., Owen
N. 2008. Objectively Measured and Sedentary Time, Physical Activity, and
Metabolic Risk. Diabetes Care. 31(2):369-371
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/31/2/369.full.pdfOwen
N., Bauman A., Brown W. 2009. Too much sitting: a novel and important
predictor of chronic disease risk? Br J Sports Med. 43(2).
http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/43/2/81.extractPatel
AV., Bernstein L., Deka A., Spencer Feigelson H.,CampbellPT., Gapstur
SM.,ColditzGA., Thun MJ. 2010. Leisure Time Spent Sitting in Relation to
Total Mortality in a Prospective Cohort of US Adults. American Journal
of Epidemiology. 172(4): 419-429.
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2010/07/21/aje.kwq155.full
- Stand to enhance your bone strength & improve your muscle function
Bey L.,HamiltonMT.2003. Suppression of skeletal muscle
lipoprotein lipase activity during physical inactivity: a molecular
reason to maintain daily low-intensity activity. J Physiol.
551(2):673-682.
http://jp.physoc.org/content/551/2/673?related-urls=yes&legid=jphysiol;551/2/673Menshikova
EV., Ritov VB.,ToledoFGS., Ferrell RE., Goodpaster BH., Kelley DE.
2004. Effects of weight loss and physical activity on skeletal muscle
mitochondrial function in obesity. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab.
288:818-825.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15585590
- Standing during the workday will burn extra calories, approximately 96,000 a year (about 25 lbs worth!)
Ainsworth BE., Haskell WL., Whitt MC., Irwin ML., Swartz AM., Strath
SJ., O’Brien WL., Bassett DR., Schmitz KH., Emplaincourt PO., Jacobs
DR., Leon AS. 2000. Compendium of Physical Activities: an update of
activity codes and MET intensities.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10993420
- Limit sitting to no more than 3 hours a day... it could add years to your life!
Fung TT., Hu FB., Yu J.,ChuNF., Spiedelman D., Tofler GF., Willett
WC., Rimm EB. 2000. Leisure-Time Physical Activity, Television Watching,
and Plasma Biomarker of Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease Risk.
American Journal of Epidemiology. 152(12):1171-1178.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11130623 Katzmarzyk
PT., Church TS., Craig CL., Bouchard C. 2009. Sitting Time and
Mortality from All Causes Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer. Med Sci
Sports Exerc. 41(5): 998-1005
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19346988 Patel
AV., Bernstein L., Deka A., Spencer Feigelson H.,CampbellPT., Gapstur
SM.,ColditzGA., Thun MJ. 2010. Leisure Time Spent Sitting in Relation to
Total Mortality in a Prospective Cohort of US Adults. American Journal
of Epidemiology. 172(4): 419-429.
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2010/07/21/aje.kwq155.full Perry LS. 2012. Standing Up, Redesigning the Workplace to Address Obesity. Professional Safety. 52(6):77-84http://www.ergostoreonline.com/media/pdfs/standing-up-to-obesity.pdf
Sit to Stand potential solutions as posted on Ergoweb: http://www.ergoweb.com/news/detail.cfm?id=2702#!
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Description
Five Reference Postures The five reference postures represents a range of postures observed at computer workstations, but may be useful for many other common workplace
tasks as well.
Reclined Sitting Posture The user's torso and neck
are straight and recline between 105 and 120 degrees from the thighs.
Upright Sitting Posture The user’s torso and neck are approximately vertical
and in line (between 90° and 105° from the thighs), the thighs are
approximately horizontal, and the lower legs are vertical.
Declined Sitting Posture The user's thighs are
inclined with the buttocks higher than the knee and the angle between the
thighs and the torso is greater than 90 degrees. The torso is vertical or
slightly reclined and the legs are vertical.
Partially Standing Posture The user's torso and neck
are straight, the angle formed by the torso and thighs can range between 120
and 160 degrees.
Standing Posture The user’s legs, torso, neck and head are
approximately in line and vertical.
Reclined Sitting
| Upright Sitting
| Declined Sitting
| Partially Standing
| Standing |
Product Features • allows for varied working postures throughout the day to avoid static postures and negative health consequences associated with that • available saddle only, saddle with back, and saddle with back and arms • available in fabric, leather, medical vinyl and various other treatments to suit a myriad of applications • optional writing/data input/task tablet can be ordered along with armrest option • frames available in black or polished finish • various caster options to suit varied applications
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