The Herman Miller Office Chair

The Aeron chair is a product of Herman Miller designed in 1994 by Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf. It is an ergonomic chair that is regarded by many users as inherently very comfortable due to its wide range of fit (available in three sizes) and adjustability. Its novel design has gained it a spot in the New York Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection. The chair's exclusivity became a symbol of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s.
The chair departs from a typical upholstery-over-cushioning-base design. Instead, the seat and back are made of a stretched, semi-transparent, and flexible mesh called Pellicle. It can be customized through modular extensions like lumbar support, sacral support (dubbed PostureFit), fixed or adjustable armrests and varied bases to accommodate diverse fields of deployment.
Malcom Gladwell tells the story about the development and marketing challenges of the Aeron in his book, Blink.

Office Chair Gas Lift Problems

Ever have that sinking feeling when your sitting on your office chair? maybe your chair is feeling spongy and won't sit up high enough for you. If this is the case you need a new gas lift for your office chair. At The Chair Hospital we can provide you with a new gas lift, fitted to your chair and height requirements, that comes with an impressive 4 year warranty. We can come to your office or workplace and repair your office chair by replacing it's gas lift or whatever else may need to be done with minimal hassle for you. If you need any chair repair work and you are in Sydney, or you feel it's time for a new office chair contact The Chair Hospital on 95223621.

Massive Reconditioned Office Chair Sale!!

I'm happy to announce for anybody looking for a bargain, high quality office chair at a fraction of the price of a new one......The Chair Hospital is having a huge clearance sale of reconditioned, quality office chairs. Give us a call now on 95223621 and make a deal with us. The more you buy the more insanely cheap the prices will become. So call now on 95223621 or call after checking out our website http://www.chairhospital.com/ . You won't be disappointed. (The photo is one of the styles of chair we have on sale now).

The Right Office Chair is a Must

The following article is from "The Times" South Africa. You may find it interesting if you are considering purchasing a new office chair. call The Chair hospital if you need further assistance.

Cheap furniture hurts productivity — especially when there’s stress involved, writes Margaret Harris.
We may not like to admit it, but those of us with office jobs spend most of our time sitting, while having breakfast, driving to work and most of our working day. Sitting requires less physical effort than standing or walking, but it puts a lot of stress on the lumbar area. A suitable office chair is a critical step in preventing health problems.
“Minor aches and pains are hampering people’s ability to do their jobs. They’re not going out to the doctor and they’re not losing time from their jobs. There’s just a leakage of productivity — a silent leak,” says Fabrice Ruard, managing director of workspace designers Inspiration Office.
Inspiration Office recommends a chair that does everything a spine does: it changes shape to mimic the way your vertebras move, giving you support in all the right places.
In a recent study, workers who used a chair like this, the Steelcase Leap Chair, didn’t experience the aches and pains other workers reported. Nor did pain grow much throughout the day as it did for others. And they responded with real productivity gains of 18%. This shows that seating is not an issue you can afford to ignore.
When we talk about stress and ergonomics — it’s hard to tell which comes first, the chicken or the egg. On the one hand, stress can cause various physical ailments such as fatigue, muscle tension, and weight gain, which contribute to the tendency to slouch and use poor posture. On the other hand, bad ergonomics and posture can cause physical injuries and discomfort that then cause health-related stress and anxiety, tension headaches, backache and other ailments” says Cyril Harrisberg, CEO of The Stress Clinic.
He also says there are emotional effects of stress. “Moodiness, agitation, restlessness, the inability to relax all take their toll on your body, causing you to fidget and shuffle around to find a comfortable position — often placing yourself in poor postural alignments that you feel you need to change two minutes later. It can be a vicious circle.” When restless enough, careless shifting about can cause pulls, strains and other injury to the muscles.
Stress is a psychological and physiological response to events that upset our personal balance in some way. But the problem with the stress response is that the more it’s activated, the harder it is to shut off.
Chronic stress wears you down day after day and year after year, with no visible escape. Under sustained or severe stress, even the most well-adjusted person loses the ability to adapt. When stress overwhelms our coping resources, our bodies and minds suffer.
The stress caused by an aggressive boss or pressing deadline may need a more serious intervention, but the stress caused by a bad chair can be addressed by getting a better one, though at a price.
Mariana Kruger, sales executive at Inspiration Office, says good chairs must be adjustable to suit the sitter’s weight and height.
“The Steelcase Leap Chair, for example, adjusts to your body, weight and tasks — using height, depth, other adjustments. It gives the correct support for your lumbar and thoracic regions.” What’s more, 98% of the chair is made from recycled materials.
If people are uncomfortable, productivity will be negatively affected over the long term — people will start to suffer from migraines, shoulder tension and constriction of their breathing areas, she says. Your colon, lower back and the free flow of blood will also be affected.
Companies need to be more supportive of their staff, and not only in terms of emotional support in times of crisis, but providing supportive office furniture.
Companies that try to save money by buying cheap, badly designed chairs with no support will find themselves having to pay up for higher stress levels and falling productivity.

Bad Backs and The Benefits of Ergonomic Office Chairs

Do you have a bad back?

Well if you do and you spend a lot of your time sitting on an office chair and it's not a very good one, you almost definately will be acsentuating the problem.

A well designed posture fitting office chair can save you a great deal of pain and will help you have a comfortable day and a pleasant nights sleep.

A quality ergonomic office chair can range from as little as $300 up into the thousands, but when you consider how much time you actually spend sitting each day, week, month and year in your office chair it is worth the price. It may be a little depressing but if you are a full time office worker you could be spending around 25% of your time sitting in your chair, which equates to around almost 3 continuous months a year sitting in your office chair.

So if you are looking for a new ergonomic office chair, visit The Chair Hospital or give us a call on 95223621 if you are in Sydney.

Great News if You Need Chair Repairs!

We've decided to do it again due to popular demand.

Free steam clean month is back.

So if you don't know how it works, what we are offering is a free steam clean with any chair repair for the month of March 08!

All you have to do is contact The Chair Hospital 0295223621 and let us know that you read this blog post and we will happily give your office or timber chair or chairs a steam clean for free with any repair or service.

So give us a call or drop us an email and take advantage of this great offer.

Here's an article I found on Wikipedia about the history of the chair.

History of the chair
Main article: History of the chair

Early twentieth century chair made in eastern Australia, with strong heraldic embellishment
The chair is of extreme antiquity, although for many centuries and indeed for thousands of years it was an article of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use. "The chair" is still extensively used as the emblem of authority in the House of Commons in the United Kingdom and Canada, and in public meetings. It was not, in fact, until the 16th century that it became common anywhere. The chest, the bench and the stool were until then the ordinary seats of everyday life, and the number of chairs which have survived from an earlier date is exceedingly limited; most of such examples are of ecclesiastical or seigneurial origin. Our knowledge of the chairs of remote antiquity is derived almost entirely from monuments, sculpture and paintings. A few actual examples exist in the British Museum, in the Egyptian Museum at Cairo, and elsewhere.
In ancient Egypt chairs appear to have been of great richness and splendor[citation needed]. Fashioned of ebony and ivory, or of carved and gilded wood, they were covered with costly materials and supported upon representations of the legs of beasts or the figures of captives. The earliest known form of Greek chair, going back to five or six centuries BCE, had a back but stood straight up, front and back. During Tang dynasty (618 - 907 AD), a higher seat first started to appear amongst the Chinese elite and their usage soon spread to all levels of society. By the 12th century seating on the floor was rare in China, unlike in other Asian countries where the custom continued, and the chair, or more commonly the stool, was used in the vast majority of houses throughout the country.
In Europe, it was owing in great measure to the Renaissance that the chair ceased to be a privilege of state, and became a standard item of furniture whoever could afford to buy it. Once the idea of privilege faded the chair speedily came into general use. We find almost at once that the chair began to change every few years to reflect the fashions of the hour.
The 20th century saw an increasing use of technology in chair construction with such things as all-metal folding chairs, metal-legged chairs, the Slumber Chair, moulded plastic chairs and ergonomic chairs. The recliner became a popular form, at least in part due to radio and television, and later a two-part. The modern movement of the 1960s produced new forms of chairs: the butterfly chair, bean bags, and the egg-shaped pod chair. Technological advances led to molded plywood and wood laminate chairs, as well as chairs made of leather or polymers. Mechanical technology incorporated into the chair enabled adjustable chairs, especially for office use. Motors embedded in the chair resulted in massage chairs.

Don't forget to visit The Chair Hospital for all your chair needs.