Think about this for just a minute and you will have to agree that in many instances, time spent in an office chair staring at a monitor is not conducive to a healthy back, hips, and neck. An office chair is obviously something most people are intimately acquainted with, they are a central fixture in most of our lives. When I developed chronic upper back and neck pain, I had to really take a close look at the way my posture had degraded.

With a perpetually slouched posture, my upper back and neck had developed some real problems. When it comes to office furniture, the chair is not above reproach. A few years ago I discovered that the body can only take so many years of office chair abuse before it literally breaks down and becomes debilitated. In fact, many physical problems could be avoided if people spent much less time sitting at a desk. Sure enough, the many hours I spent hunched in a chair were indeed taking a toll.

For better or worse, they are something that is here to stay for a very long time.