The Via Swopper Chair provides a practical alternative to more traditional ergonomic chairs.
Today I’m going to review the VIA Swopper Chair. Though at first glance it may not seem like a traditional office chair, the Swopper is certainly intended to be something that you would use at your work-station for 8 to 10 hours a day. The Swopper chair is an excellent therapeutic intervention for those of you who suffer from lower back pain. It does this by addressing the root cause of lot of the problems that we’re seeing in the work environment today as a result of static posture; it encourages core-strength stabilization, improving strength and conditioning of the lower intrinsic muscles of the back on a lower level of conditioning adds. At the same time, extremely multidimensional as it aslo allows for a lot of movement while still stabalizing the core muscles. It moves both vertically and laterally in a similar fashion to the Physio Ball. So think of this in terms of all the health benefits you would get with the Physio Ball combined with all the adjust-ability and stability of a task chair.
The height of the Swopper Chair adjusts without the need for a pump. The spring tension is adjustable, so you can increase or decrease the tension on the spring. And what this is doing is; think of the spine. What’s happening here is this gentle low impact subtle motion, which is the healthiest kind of motion for the body, is loading, offloading, loading, offloading on the disk tissue between the vertebrae and your spine. This motion is critical for providing nutrition to the disk. So, it’s like hydraulic action—pulling nutrients into the disk tissue and getting rid of waste products. So, that’s occurring just very subtly as you bounce on the Swopper. That tension is adjustable so you can increase or decrease the resistance on the spring by turning this collar here. So you can adjust this to suit somebody from 120 lbs up to 290 lbs depending on their stature. In addition, you can increase or decrease the lateral motion you are experiencing here. Again, this is 360 degrees movement with lateral capability which is brilliant in terms of when you lean forward, the unit moves with you. Your pelvis has the opportunity to roll forward. So you’re decreasing the strain on your lower-back and maintaining that curve of lower-back very easily. So you can increase or decrease this movement by adjusting this under here. It only weighs 23 lbs. It’s very easy to handle and move around. There’s a plus and minus sign here. Turn this, to increase the range of motion towards the plus sign or towards the minus sign to decrease the range of motion. You’ll never have it completely still because the whole idea is to have that low-impact, subtle control of motion occurring but brilliant in terms of overall health and wellness and improving posture. So if you’re having body ailments (especially lower-back pain) from sitting in more traditional ergonomic chairs, I highly suggest you check out the VIA Swopper Chair.
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