Ergonomic chair

I have home office, badly need some decent ergonomically-correct furniture. Any suggestions where to buy?

There's a shop in the ground floor of Ocean Terminal that sells ergonomic office furniture, excellent quality and not badly priced.

Check out our DuoRest and Duoback range. Award winning design from Europe for over ten years Very very different from anything you have seen anywhere else. Part of what we do here is a combined osteopath, chiropractic, orthopedic centre. We sell these chairs AFTER we have been using them and we recommend them to all our patients. Search for them on the web or go to our website www.gaiatherapy.com.hk There are some pictures but it's best if you just drop by. We have about 15 of these here that we use. Ring first or email. I am not at the centre all the time. Address is on the website. It is the best chair I have sat in to work. We are not a retail shop and we sell these as part of our principle here of providing every aspects of treatment and care for back problems. You know the problem is that the back, in the seated position, has 7 times the presure in it then when we are lying down and almost double that of standing up. The so call ergonomic chairs in the market are generally ones that give direct support to the lower back. There is a problem with this design. The back is shorten at the point of the support but the rest of you is relaxed. The presure has gone up but you are temporarily being assisted. In the meantime your supporting muscles are relaxed. It is being TAUGHT not to support your weight. So when you are in other chairs or standing up, you feel worse and want to get back to your 'ergonomic' chairs. I have always been baffled by this. I don't encourage assistance externally for the body unless in cases of severe trauma or there is a danger of the condition deteriorating. We are only in Central by Exit A. Drop in, even if you don't get on with the chairs, have a coffee and chill out here. Seems like half our mates come over at lunch time to have a coffee and read our papers.

You will need a comfortable chair which works for you and a right workstation. Try out and compare the various brands.

The company that I worked for, does provide standard cubicle workstations & ergo chairs to all the 1000+ office dwellers( reputable brand)& ergo training. The ergo training included - laptop/keyboard layout, do & donts to avoid repetitive motion injury, exercise charts etc. No kidding ! - Daily, annoucement thru the paging system will prompt us to do a 5 mins exercise.

But, there had been feedback to the ergonomist that the ergo chairs are not comfortable, does not fit to their body and moans on back aches.

If you do go to the shop, ask for a consultation on overall workstation layout, not just the ergo chair.