Being in a sitting position for too long could make us feel uncomfortable. Especially to office workers who work full-time by sitting in an office chair. Wrong sitting position and office chair that is not applied anthropometry could increase early death risk. Anthropomethry office chair is significant.
Sitting position for too long causes body aches, this is a sign that something unnatural is going on. Once it got severe, the muscle will be got tense and causing back pain.
Too Long in Sitting Position could Increasing Early Death Risk
People in their productive age are often facing situations where they should sit in front of their computer for hours because of their workload. Backpain and numbness are unavoidable. Some of us probably thought this matter as something that negligible or insignificant because within some days the pain disappear. But it turns out that sitting for too long could cause early death risk.
Based on research results by Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University researcher in England published in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. It is mentioned that 11.6% of death cases in England during 2016 are caused by the effect of sitting for too long.
Diseases that Caused by Sitting for Too Long
Sitting for too long could lead to some serious disease such as :
- Diabetes type 2
- Lung cancer
- Heart disease
- Inflammation inside the body
- Increasing dementia risk
Cause of Back Pain
Sitting for too long could cause body posture deformed. When we sit for hours we change our sitting position frequently that will cause some wrong sitting position. The wrong sitting position could affect HNP or herniated nucleus pulposus. HNP is a serious condition that could lead to permanent nerve damage if the liquid is piled up and swollen.
The nerve that is affected is the sciatic nerve that is located in the lower back area, but it could also affect another area such as the neck or wrist. The wrong sitting position could give tense to tissues around the nerve like muscle tissue. This condition is usually indicated by symptoms like numbness and tingling.
Preventing Wrong Sitting Position by Paying Attention in Anthropometry
Office chair design that applies anthropometry could help minimize body aches risk or another serious disease as discussed in the previous article. Anthropometry measurement plays an important role because office chair is something that is used for long-duration, thus body shape and size should be detailed.
A body part that needs to be measured on anthropometry measurement for office chair design is upper back, lower back, sitting bones, thigh behind the knee, area behind the knee, arms, feet.
Anthropometry Measurement Tool that Enhancing Office Chair Design
Body measurement for office chairs should be accurate and precise. Thus, we need a measurement tool that enhances the accurate result. Here are the best measurement tools options that could be used :
1. Anthropometric chair
Anthropometric Chair produced by Solo Abadi Indonesia is an innovation on body dimension measurement in the form of a chair that measures the body in a sitting or standing position so that it is more comfortable and practical without being in need of more tools. It could measure up to 34 body dimensions. Check the tutorial here.
2. Portable Anthropomethry
Metresis – Portable anthropomethry produced by Solo Abadi Indonesia is a measurement tool derived from anthropomethry chair that packed as a portable tool. As how innovation should be, portable anthropomethry could be use to measure more than 100 human body measurement. Just how chair anthropomethry works, portable anthropomethry could be used in various field such as sport, forensic, industrial technic, product design, academy and military.
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