![]() ![]() The truth is we just took it off, because the the guy who’s going to be sitting in this chair is quite tall, and it hit him right in the middle of the shoulder blades. When I first saw it, it mounts on the back of the chair and you can change the angle of it, but you can’t raise it up and down. The final feature I wanted to show you with this Hyken Ergonomics Chair from Staples is this head support. It doesn’t often give you as much support as you might think. If you unlock the tilt, it does allow you to tilt back, but it doesn’t allow you to lock it in more than one position, and sometimes with these single lock tilts, there’s a little give to it even when it’s locked. Ideally, in some of the nicer chairs, the whole lumbar section will raise and lower.Īnd then there is a tilt feature. We looked at a person who was 6′ 7″ and 5′ 1″, and for both of them we had it in the highest position. They usually have some mechanism to kind of push on the mesh, but it’s not very supportive, and if you look at the adjustability of it, it’s a minimal range. The lumbar support in this chair is one of its weaker points and I think that’s true of many of the mesh chairs. This again meets the minimum requirements of adjustability up and down. So if you’re a little bit more narrow, like this guy is here, it might be helpful to have an armrest that swivels in. The other thing is there are some chairs that have the armrests that might swivel in. I wouldn’t share with people and adjust it frequently. In this case, the adjustments are a little bit tough and it’s been my experience that these less expensive adjustments can often wear out, so this is a chair that you can get for yourself. ![]() If you’re not going to share the chair with somebody, then you set them and forget them. You want to have at least the minimum adjustability of up and down, and how to do that. Looking at the arm rest, you want to have minimum adjustability. Sometimes the the mesh is cooler, but it might not be as comfortable. Keep that in mind for some of us older guys or older women that that have lost some muscle growth. ![]() This guy here doesn’t have a lot of girth on his rear end, so he might get a little uncomfortable. It is made of mesh, which some people really enjoy. It can fit some larger people, particularly tall people. This particular seat pan is designed to fit a majority of people. When you when you choose a seat pan, obviously your body size is important – the length and the width of your body size. Then this is the locking mechanism here that allows you to lock the lumbar support, so that’s a nice feature, because when you’re not working on the computer, sometimes it’s nice to be able to lean back if you’re having a conversation with somebody. What I’ve noticed with these tensioners is they don’t they don’t really increase the tension of the tilt that much, but it it is kind of a nice feature in a chair that’s this inexpensive. This has a tensioner that you can tighten. This has the typical hydraulic piston right in here and those will often wear out in a chair that’s under two hundred dollars, but they’ll usually last at least a couple years depending on how heavy you are. Most chairs, even the less expensive ones will have that. Again, that’s a minimum that you want to have is a chair that comes up and down. This has a hydraulic piston that raises it up and down with this control here. Sometimes it’s difficult because they all have different different sizes to replace those. The plastic casters – one of the things to keep in mind is if that if you’re a woman and you’re working from home or in an office that has carpet, what will tend to happen is hair will get caught into these wheels and they will break down fairly quickly. We’re going to start looking at this ergonomics chair – the Hyken from Staples – from the wheels up.Īll chairs you get are going to have wheels on them. There’s a lot of ergonomics chairs out there and people are all different sizes, so I want to talk about what the minimum requirements are if you’re going to go purchase a chair. I’m a physical therapist with Petersen Physical Therapy in Arizona, and we’re going to review the Hyken Ergonomics Chair that we purchased from Staples. ![]()
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