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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapists.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapists.
- And we are the most famous physical therapists
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- Yeah, that's right.
Today we're going to talk about seven critical features
your home office chair should have.
Especially if you want to stop pain or prevent pain.
- Right, and remember the number seven is complete so.
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All right, Bob, what are we gonna do here?
- Well, the first thing here
in regards to having a home office chair
I really wanna recommend that you stand a lot too.
Not only get the chair
but you probably should get a desk too.
A standing desk.
- Yeah - I know that's asking a lot.
They do have the ones
that you can put on an existing desk by FlexiSpot
and you can lift up.
- Right. They're a little cheaper.
- Yeah.
- These are, I gotta admit they're nicer
but they do cost more, but they're nice.
- They're at a good price now.
- And they'll last. - They'll come down, yeah.
- They are built very well.
- So yeah, this is a standing desk by FlexiSpot.
Comhar, I believe it's called.
It's nice, I like to draw on here.
- Oh yeah, that's right.
That is a nice option.
- And it's also got the charging ports there.
- Oh yeah, right here.
USB ports and then that third one is kinda like a newer one
but I don't know how that one works.
- Yeah, well, we're really smart here.
So, Brad show how this is different.
I know this is about a chair,
we're gonna get to the chair
but this is just--
- Well, that was for like a seat
and you can preset it
for your-- - Preset yeah.
- Yep, for your whatever level you want.
I have this one set
number four at the highest level.
It goes just so you can see,
but when you're standing you just push that button
and then there you go.
Woo up there and it's fine tuning.
- Yeah. And it's kind of nice.
- Now we get up to Robert's world here.
Yeah, there you go. (Brad's voice drowns Bob's)
- We're up to higher heights. - But yeah,
and so there's other levels you can get it.
If you wanted a stool,
you might go a little bit lower which...
I really do like a stool 'cause you can keep this the same
and stand and sit.
- Kind of a sit-stand.
- Right, mm-hmm. - Look, just like this.
I mean basically - There you go.
- You know you're not going all the way down.
- Yeah right.
- But, when you gotta have a chair too
these are the critical features you're gonna wanna have
- Mmh. - 'cause,
I know you're gonna sit,
but when you do sit, we want you to be comfortable
and be in the right position.
- Right.
Let's start.
You wanna get going on that, Bob?
- Yeah, let's keep going on then.
- Alright, let me see if I can get this thing
to behave and go down where it's supposed to.
So here we go.
- Yeah, here we go.
We're down at this...
Where should we start up? Up and down first?
- Yeah, let's go first height.
The first thing you wanna have,
the feature is you gotta be able to adjust the height
- Right. - Because if it's too low...
Brad can go low?
- Yeah, that's as low as it goes.
- Yeah if it goes really low,
like for me, my knees are going to be up like this
and it's gonna round your back out.
- Oh, yeah.
- And if you have a too high
you can get cutoff pressure underneath your thighs.
- Right here. - Yeah.
- If your feet are down.
Actually I like it right about here,
but yeah, if you feel like you're reaching down
just to touch the floor
and your pressure is here, cuts the circulation
off to your legs, - Yeah.
- It's no good.
- It's also, Brad, why I like the,
they call it the teardrop surface on the front.
- Oh, sure. Right here.
- Yeah.
- It tapers over. - Right.
- As opposed to...
It is padded, really,
all the way around there. - Yeah.
- It's not padded and then a sharp edge.
- Again, no cutoff pressure from sitting.
- Yep.
- So next one, adjustable backrest.
- Uh. - This is hard to find
in a lot of chairs.
- So this one has a couple of
different options here. - Yeah it has a lot of
different adjustments.
- Right. So you can either...
Uh right now it's locked, so it cannot go back.
- Right.
- There's on the left side,
you turn a knob and whoa.
We don't really recommend this,--
- Yeah.
- Unless you're gonna do a temporary stretch.
- I think if you want to relax back too Brad.
- Oh, sure. - Yeah.
- You could adjust the back and then lock it, right?
- Let's see, you know...
- You don't even know, do you?
- You better believe it. - Yes.
- Well, I would never do that,
but that's why I didn't care, but--
- Yeah. - I can see why someone
might want to.
- Or they wanna take a nap.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- What I like is you can adjust the spring level
three different levels.
Either really easy to go back, or there's much more
resistance. - Sure.
- That stretch we often promote in a seated position.
- Sure.
The hallelujah stretch. - The hallelujah stretch,
and that's when I would. - works really well for that.
Where you can get to go back
and it allows the lungs to open up
and breathe while you stretch for posture.
- But in addition to that,
you can adjust the lumbar support too, right?
- I really like that.
- This is really a feature you don't see very often.
- And it's really critical
to have the have it in the right position.
- Right. - So you can go down
and it's fully adjusted.
It's got a little detent in there, click, click, click,
so you can lock it.
It doesn't lock but it stays where you want it nicely.
- For most people,
it's gonna hit you around the beltline.
It should feel comfortable.
It's not something that you have to adjust to.
- Yeah. - It should feel good.
To me it feels like my back is locked in
when it's up against it. - Right. Yep.
- And it's got good pressure.
- And it's cause it's breathable cloth on here,
- Yeah.
- which allows so it doesn't overheat,
which is a really big plus in my mind.
I really liked that,
looks good too. - 100%.
I agree 100% that you don't need to have warm material
especially during the summer.
So, alright. - Oh wait Bob, there's more.
- Alright.
- Along with the lumbar support going up and down,
this can be adjusted this direction,
so how big the support is
or how much it supports.
And they do it in a really kind of a neat way to do it
as on here, look at the seat pan move forward and back,
which I really like.
- So it makes it nice
because let's say you feel like it was too much.
- Yeah, it's too big
of a bump. - Yeah.
You move forward a little bit. - Yep.
Then you move forward, and actually,
it's a neat way to go about adjusting that lumbar support
in this direction as well as up and down.
- If you have shorter legs
you may have to adjust it one way or the other,
so that you're, again, not getting the cutoff here.
- Yep.
And this is the thing,
when you get a chair with this many adjustments,
if you're not aware of how to make the adjustments,
it's really nil.
- Right, right.
You gotta get educated on the chair.
- And once you make the adjustments,
you say, "Wow, does that make a difference!"
- Did we say the name of this chair by the way?
I don't think we did.
It's the Soutien.
I don't know how to pronounce it.
- S-O-U-T-I-E-N, yeah.
- Yes. - So we need an English name.
- Maybe Sutien?
I don't know. - Sutien, there you go.
- Yeah. - Okay,
let's go to the next one. - Alright, next one, Brad.
We just did seat depth,
so how about breathable material?
We talked about that. - Oh, yes.
We covered that already Bob.
- All right, how about adjustable armrests?
- This is a big one.
I really appreciate it
cause if I'm working somewhere,
you wanna take the stress off the shoulder
as well as the neck.
So you wanna rest those arms on.
And this would be too high,
but if I had my keyboard in my lap,
which-- - Right.
- I like to have the wireless keyboard
and have it set on my lap.
You let your arms rest here and look at this.
If you want it to angle in it allows.
And this is a padded, it's not a hard arm rest.
It's cushion which allows that.
And you get three different detented positions
and the up and down, which is nice,
so that if you're taller...
That's a little low, I can feel it.
It just doesn't feel right.
Yeah, it's a little high.
So for me, it's right about
in the middle - Just right.
- And you can adjust in and out
which is nice depending on your mama bear, papa bear
and baby bear.
- Exactly. So, they're adjustable
in three different directions.
- I should say this, Brad, though,
armrests are a bit controversial
whether or not you should have them or not.
- Sure.
And then I always think I want them.
- Yeah.
- I feel like I start sagging without them,
so, I don't understand the controversy but there is.
- Yeah.
- Well, I think if you got them,
adjust them properly--
- Yeah. - And I have a feeling
you'll appreciate it.
- You're gonna like it.
So, the last feature,
you really should have good swiveled castors.
Because what's gonna happen
if you don't move around like that,
you're gonna move your back and twist your back.
- I've worked with people where they twist over
to get into a filing cabinet-- - Right.
- And they have a back problem
as a result of it. - Yeah.
- And plus their posture may not be good,
so here if you can do this--
- Well, then you start doing...
I think when you start going around the whole room with it.
You know just...
- Well it's fun. It is a fun thing.
I think this would go around a lot.
We could do a little experiment
but that would be silly.
- To see how long it goes. - Yeah.
So is there anything else that we missed Bob?
- There it is.
We'll have a link below for it.
It's a fine chair. - Oh wait.
There is one more thing, Bob.
We've got the headrest--
- Oh, the headrest, right. - Is adjustable.
Now, I think this is a nice feature.
I don't know if it's really necessary
'cause how often are you gonna let your head rest?
Again, Brad, if you get this for your home--
- Yeah. - You might be taking
your naps in there.
- It's definitely good for me lower.
Hits me in the right spot, supports it well, and yeah.
- It supports that heavy brain right?
- Oh, Bob.
I guess you can use it like in the head rest of my car.
I use it for a check on my posture.
- Right. - If my head is back here,
I know my--
- If your chin tacks against it.
- There you go, Bob.
For that, I would probably go up a little bit there
and I can do a little over pressure.
- Yeah.
- This actually is a good therapeutic chair
so I love it. - Check it out,
check out the desk,
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We check them out frequently.
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- Peace.
- Be careful.