An interview with the proprietor
Malcolm feels that his personal experience and subsequent Advanced DSE training put him in an excellent position to offer sensible advice to back pain sufferers and those needing specialist seating or posture guidance.
Kings College Hospital were pleased to have Malcolm participate in their neuropathic pain studies which involved being "Wired" up to test his sensitivity to pain.
With a strong exercise regime Malcolm is pleased to report that he is no longer on medication and carries heavy chairs around on a daily basis !
If you would like to talk with Malcolm please complete our 'Contact Us' form requesting a call from him.
Click here to read the article.
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The New Back Chair 007
27-01-2012
We are pleased to be in a position to finally offer what we believe to be a very high quality Office Back Chair within our ergonomic seating range. Following the launch of our new B2B corporate website http://www.officeposturechairs,co,uk/ this year, we asked our manufacturer to exclusively design and build a high quality back chair for a competitive price that we could list on the new website. We jointly decided to offer a purpose built back chair incorporating inflatable lumbar & a seat slide, so that the chair would suit a broad range of users within an average height/weight range.
The back chair was actually launched early in January 2012 and we immediately had an order for 27 from a company looking to upgrade their office seating within a tight budget. This was quickly followed by further sales which clearly demonstrated the manufacturer had designed an excellent product. Having listed the chair on the B2B website we could see no reason why we should not discount its full retail price to below £200.00 and offer as few options as possible. The client feedback gave us sufficient comfort to also list the chair on our main specialist website http://www.backchairs-direct.co.uk/ as a budget back chair. Essentially the pricing model we have adopted means we are giving away the inflatable lumbar support, the seat slide and an upgrade from standard height adjustable arms to ones with forward/backward sliding armpads.
This chair has opened the door for us into the corporate market at a wholesale pricing level, knowing that it is UK manufactured offering far superior components to cheaper imported ergonomic seating.
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Is Taking a "Tablet" the answer for "Text Neck"
26-01-2012
Recent studies now show that users of "Tablets" should avoid wherever possible using them on their laps which can cause painful hunching of the neck. Replacing the old faithful DeskTop may have many advantages but it certainly has some more serious disadvantages when it comes to posture issues.
The issues are all too similar to those highlighted in our recent Text Neck blog and recent studies by the Harvard School of Public Health clearly demonstrate this fact. We are often called to offices to carry out seating and/or desking assessments, but when it comes to muscoskeletal disorders, especially of the upper limbs, the source may not be in the office, but actually at home using SmartPhones or Tablets.
Given that very rarely are children taught how to sit correctly there is probably little hope that manufacturers will issue a posture guidlines to use the products safely. |
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Text Neck
18-01-2012
Your Smartphone and your upper limb problems.
You may not realise but when you are using your smartphone for texting, emailing or surfing you tend to lean forwards into a position that can cause or aggravate Neck, Shoulder and Back problems. You will be straining your muscles in those areas to accommodate this "smartphone" position. In the U.S. they call this the Cell Phone "text neck" as so many students are suffering from constant smartphone use.
Did you know that the average weight of a head is 10 lbs (4.5 kgs) and that for every
1" your lean it forwards the strain on your neck increases 10 fold.
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B2B Website Launch
Sunday, 1 January 2012
Backchairs Direct launch a new B2B Corporate Seating Website
We are pleased to announce our new B2B Corporate Seating website for companies wishing to upgrade their seating to improve employees posture and comfort. The chairs are priced for corporate purchasing and have upto 40% discount reductions. Further chairs will be added to the range in coming months but rest assured you are purchasing UK manufactured seating and therefore support our economy. Visit www.officeposturechairs.co.uk now! |
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Sacropaedia Support Springs - The ultimate in seating support.
INNOVATION - Tomorrows seating today
Sacropaedia
* Immediate Individual Contouring
* Improvement of Core Stability
* Improved Postural Support
* 72 Individual Pocket Springs
* Instant response to movement
* Reduction of skeletal compression
* Air flow producing Cooler seating
* 10 year guarantee
Sacropaedia has been developed between Backchairs Direct, Sit-Well Limited a specialist seating and desking DSE Assessor and the UK's leading back care seating manufacturer who specialise in sprung seating technology.
Sacropaedia is exclusive to Backchairs-Direct Limited.
Sacropaedia pocket sprung office chairs with their effective design provides high levels of comfort and support where it is needed most. This targeted support gives relief from various medical ailments as well as simply providing an extremely comfortable experience. The unique properties of pocket springs allow for individual sculpturing, ensuring that users of all shapes, sizes and weights are supported to the maximum, adapting instantly to your individual contour and body shape.
Our seats have 72 individually pocketed springs working separately and in conjunction with each other to provide exceptional support and comfort, a feat that foam alone cannot perform. From the moment you first sit on a Sacropaedia seat your individual contours will be supported and every movement , however slight, will be subject to the instant response that only springs can react to.
Due to the nature of a coil spring, the Sacropaedia will not collapse over time, unlike foam seats. Therefore we guarantee that Sacropaedia will not lose more than 3% of its height in 10 years.
Sacropaedia's ability to adapt the supportive nature instantly to any contour makes it ideal for all our seating range especially for multi-user environments or multi -shift operations, such as;
* Call Centres
* Control Rooms
* Multi-Shift operations
* 24 Hours usage
* General Office Use
* Home office Use
Copyright Backchairs Direct Limited 2012
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Jobri Kneeling Chairs
Saturday, 29 January 2011
Jobri Kneeling Chairs
Backchairs Direct Limited ("BCD") has been appointed as the sole UK distributor of this impressive range of kneeling chairs. Jobri International LLC has for many years been a worldwide distributor of Back Care products and asked us in 2010 to run trials in the UK to determine the demand for their kneeler chairs. BCD has been so impressed with sales that we are confident in our ability to appoint resellers around the UK. |
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Finally recognition for Taller people
Thursday, 14 July 2011
Finally recognition for Taller people
A new standard (BS EN 527-1 2011 has been issued to address the desking and table standards previously covered within BS EN 527 Part 1:2000.
A European office furniture standards committee found that over the past 30-40 years people have been growing taller but the industry standard for desk dimensions has not accommodated this change. Being 180cm (6') tall might have been rare in the 1970s but now you have to be 190-200cm (6' 4") to be noticed ! Taller users struggle with their legs hitting the underside of the desktop, knees knocking into structural beams and the inability to stretch their legs without hitting an obstruction or modesty panel. Low desk also are a major contributor to upper limb disorders caused by a negative posture.
Backchairs Direct Comment - "Fixed height desks will slowly disappear as more and more firms migrate to height adjustable desking to resolve all height issues for staff". Although not listed yet on our website we do supply a wide range of height adjustable desking, please contact us for further details. |
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The Benefit of a Forward Tilting seat.
Friday, 18 November 2011
The benefit of a forward tilting seat
Tilting Chairs
For generations, restless school children have been ordered to stop swinging on their chairs, but scientific evidence now suggests that what Sir and Miss dismissed as an annoying habit might have lifelong benefits. The action of tilting your chair forwards puts the body into a naturally good posture and prevents slumping.
With a growing number of children complaining of back pain it might be the quickest and cheapest remedy. The average school life means a youngster spends up to 10,000 hours at a desk. As many as 60 percent have admitted to some back problems and almost ten percent end up with serious back pain
The charity BackCare is lobbying ministers to make sure money spent on school furniture goes towards “back friendly chairs”. The charity believes teachers are now realising that a straight back can improve concentration, performance and behaviour. It wants the ‘ubiquitous’ plastic bucket chair to be replaced with adjustable, forwarding tilting chairs and angles desks, which were popular in Victorian times. |
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Glossary of Back Care terms
Acupuncture
A therapy using fine needles to control the body's energy flows.
Analgesic
Pain-killing.
Anti-inflammatory
Reducing the inflammation that causes pain.
Ankylosing spondylitis
A painful disease that causes the joints to swell up and the bones to fuse together.
Bilateral
On both sides of the body.
Cervical
Refers to the seven vertebrae that make up the neck.
Coccyx
The last bone of the spine, often called the 'tail bone', made up of four tiny joined vertebrae.
Congenital
Present at birth.
Conservative management
The non-surgical treatment of back problems.
Diagnosis
Identification of a disease or change in a person's mind and/or body.
Degeneration of the disc
The discs between the vertebrae break up as they become more rigid, restricting movement of the spine and increasing wear on the vertebrae.
Epidural
Drugs injected into the spine, for the relief of pain.
Facet joints
The point at which two vertebrae meet and move against each other.
Fracture
A break in the bone.
Herbalism
Use of plants and herbal remedies to treat illness.
Herniated
Bulging through a part of the body, such as the soft core of a disc through its tough outer coating.
Inflammation
The body's reaction to injury or disease, which includes swelling, pain, heat and tenderness.
Intramuscular
Given by injection into a muscle.
Intravenous
Given by injection into a vein.
Ligament
Bands of fibrous tissue that bind the bones together at a joint.
Lumbago
An imprecise term for low back pain.
Non-specific lower back pain
A name sometimes given to pain caused by damage to the muscles and ligaments in and around the lumbar vertebrae.
Nerve root
The start of a nerve as it leaves the spinal cord.
Occupational therapists
Health professionals, also known as OTs, who find ways to help people live at home independently, despite their illness.
Orthopaedic
Referring to the branch of medicine which deals with problems of the skeleton.
Osteoporosis
A disease which makes the bone less dense and more brittle.
Pathology
The branch of medicine concerned with the examination of diseased tissues.
Pelvis
The bony circle formed by the hip bones and the sacrum and coccyx of the lower back.
Prognosis
An assessment of the expected future course and outcome of a person's disease.
Psychologist
A specialist in the processes of the mind and behaviour.
Radiographer
The member of the health care team who takes x-rays and scans.
Radiologist
A doctor who understands and interprets a scan or an x-ray.
Radiology
The use of x-rays in the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
Sacrum
The solid flat area at the bottom of the spine forming the back of the pelvis, consisting of five fused vertebrae.
Sciatica
Pain along the length of the sciatic nerve running down the back of the leg. Often used to describe leg symptoms.
Scoliosis
A sideways curvature of the spine.
Shiatsu
A form of massage which works on the energy flow around the body, and which can be helpful for stress-related conditions.
Spasm
Sudden and/or continued contraction of muscles, which can cause immobilising pain.
Spinal canal
The hole running down the length of the spine, containing the spinal cord.
Spinal stenosis
Narrowing of the width of spinal canal, which may put pressure on the nerves.
Spondylolisthesis
A condition in which one vertebra slips out of alignment with the other.
Spondylosis
A condition of the spine resulting from wear and tear and degeneration. It causes the discs to narrow and extra bone growth to occur between disc and vertebrae.
Symptom
A change in the body and the way it works, usually indicating disease or injury.
Therapy
A word often used to mean treatment.
Thoracic
Referring to the chest area, or the 12 thoracic vertebrae to which ribs connect.
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