Seats and Cushions – Buyer’s Guide
If you spend your working day seated at a desk, or driving a vehicle, there is a possibility that you will develop back pain as a result of poor posture. The best way to prevent or relieve back pain when seated is to make sure you have a good posture by maintaining the natural forward curve of your lower back. Corrective seats and cushions, lumbar rolls and back strengthening exercises can all help you to maintain a good posture.
The aim of this Buyer’s Guide is to help you to choose the best products to help you prevent or treat back pain, whatever your working situation.
Coccyx Cushions
Designed to relieve back pain when you’ve damaged your coccyx (tail bone), a wedge-shaped high-density foam cushion with a cut-out coccyx area removes all pressure on your coccyx. The wedge shape improves your sitting position by raising your hips in relation to your knees, tilting your pelvis forward and restoring the natural curves of your spine. The coccyx cushion can prevent and relieve back pain when you have to spend long periods in your car or at your desk.
Coccyx Cushions Product Range
Supporting Rolls
Supporting lumbar (back) rolls are foam or inflatable devices that you can attach to the back of your chair to ensure that your lower back is pushed forward, ensuring good posture and preventing back pain.
Supporting Rolls Product Range
Car and Office Seat Cushions
Having a correct sitting posture is important in the treatment of low back pain such as degenerative disc disease, facet syndrome, sciatica and spinal stenosis. In all of these painful back conditions it is important to maintain the natural forward curve of the lower back. Because they raise the hips and tilt the pelvis forward, corrective seats and cushions can prevent and relieve back pain when you have to spend long periods in your car or at your desk. An alternative to corrective seats and cushions is a back support. Low Back and Wide Back Supports feature a moulded internal frame that is both firm and flexible, improving your posture and providing support and comfort. Back supports can be used in the car or office, with or without a corrective cushion, for the prevention and relief of lower back pain.
Car and Office Seat Cushions Product Range
Swiss Balls (Gym Balls)
The Swiss Ball (also known as a gym ball, physio ball or fit ball) is a versatile fitness tool that can be used for core strength, core stability, stretching, yoga and Pilates type exercises. All these exercises improve your posture and strengthen the back muscles, preventing low back pain. The mere act of sitting on a stabilised Swiss Ball can promote good posture. Once you have a back injury or are suffering back pain, the Swiss Ball can be used in the home to relieve the symptoms of low back pain, sciatica, herniated disc, facet syndrome, posture-related back ache and sacro iliac joint dysfunction.
Swiss Balls (Gym Balls) Product Range
