kneeling chair

A kneeling chair helps tilt your hips forward, taking pressure off of the lower back.

The 1970s gave us the posture friendly kneeling chair.

However, it is not proven that kneeling chairs are an optimal solution.

Kneeling chair, recommended for certain diseases or injuries of the backbone.

A kneeling chair adds an additional body part, the knees, to support the weight of the body.

Reason for its lasting acceptance seems to be on one hand its unique design and the kneeling chair function, combined with the values of active sitting.

The Kneeling chair (often just referred to as "ergonomic chairs"), was designed to encourage better posture than the conventional chair.

A misconception regarding kneeling chairs is that the body's weight bears on the knees, and thus users with poor knees cannot use the chair.

The Variable balans is the original kneeling chair , designed by Peter Opsvik.

Peter Opsvik is also the designer, in cooperation with Hans Christian Mengshoel, of the original Balans kneeling chair.

The intended purpose of a kneeling chair is to reduce lower back strain by dividing the burden of the weight to the knees as well as the buttocks.

Peter Opsvik's kneeling chairs were originally manufactured by Stokke (now Varier), Håg and Rybo.

A proper kneeling chair creates the open body angle by lowering the angle of the lower body, keeping the spine in alignment and the sitter properly positioned to task.

A more recent study from 2008 confirms that "ergonomically designed kneeling chairs set at +20 degrees inclination do maintain standing lumbar curvature to a greater extent than sitting on a standard computer chair."

Drury and Francher studied the original Balans kneeling chair in 1985, concluding that overall it was "no better than conventional chairs and could be worse than well-designed conventional office chairs."

Mengshoel initiated the concept of kneeling chair posture in Norway, and Peter Opsvik was one of three designers who developed chairs based on this principle that all had Balans in their names.

"Although often referred to as a 'kneeling chair' or 'knee-supported chair', the actual focus of lower leg support on the balans seat is below the knees and at the shin to reduce potential loading at the knees".

Some people still swear by the Norwegian-designed Balans chair, also known as the kneeling chair - a backless stool in which the sitter half sits and half kneels, presumably forcing the spine into a healthful posture.

The original kneeling chair was the Balans chair, which was developed in 1979 by Hans Christian Mengshoel and the designers Oddvin Rykken, Svein Gusrud and Peter Opsvik.

In a proper kneeling chair, some of the weight bears on the shins, not the knees, but the primary function of the shin rests (knee rests) are to keep one from falling forward out of the chair.

To sit in a kneeling chair one rests one's buttocks on the upper sloping pad and rests the front of the lower legs atop the lower pad, i.e., the human position as both sitting and kneeling at the same time.

Lander et al. conducted another experiment in 1987 comparing the kneeling chair with a conventional chair and concluded that their experimental data "do not support the manufacturer's claim that the Balans chair is likely to decrease complaints of [lower-back pain]".

A kneeling chair is a type of chair for sitting in a position with the thighs dropped to an angle of about 60 to 70 degrees from vertical (as opposed to 90 degrees when sitting in a normal chair), with some of the body's weight supported by the shins.