New realizations of the spinal column research force office chair manufacturers to the reorientation

Galileo (openPR) - back pain is considered nowadays as an economic problem of first rank. Nearly ten per cent of all loss of working hours days 2005 decreased/went back according to the current BKK health report to problems with the back. Thus this illness stands with the losses of working hours at the point. Cause each year medical treatments, false hours and early retirement costs from 20 to 25 billion euro. After upright for many decades sitting was regarded as the best Vorbeugung against back pain, this conception from medical view is considered meanwhile as outdated. Not the wrong attitude is the problem, so the realization, but the long, rigid seats in the same position. As one of the first seat furniture developers the Sato Office GmbH from Ebermannsdorf already adapted to the new results from the research.

An inquiry of the Federal association of the staff sickness funds (BKK) according to 70% all Federal citizen feel occasionally pain in the back, at 15% are even chronic the pain. The concerning mostly indicate their occupation as reason for the illness. Particularly the long seats in the office developed for the enemy picture of different working groups for the back health. Sit, so the general Credo, forces the spinal column into an unnatural attitude and is unhealthy therefore. However actually organic causes can be discovered only with 15% of the back pain patients.

Movement for the volume disk

„Harmful sitting gives it not “, means the spinal column researcher to Professor Dr. Hans Jochim Wilke of Institut for accident-surgical research and bio mechanics at the University of Ulm. „This conception of unhealthy sitting decreases/goes back to attempts from the 60's. “The measurements of the Swedish researcher Professor Dr. Alf Nachemson, which measured the volume disk pressure with different activities and to the result came, are meant seats are a larger load than a standing. Since that time the if possible upright seats was still considered as imitation of the attitude when standing as the unschädlichste seating position. 1998 however repeated Wilke the attempt with most modern measuring techniques and partly came to completely different results. Upright sitting fared somewhat better than a standing. Best was however the leave seat attitude, which one takes usually completely automatically.

The occasional back pain comes against it less from the volume disks than from spanning, which result from to long remaining in a position. „A change of the attitude is always also a change in the load of the volume disks “, means the bio mechanic, „and that is it, which wants nature. “However this mobility must also of the chair, on which one sits is supported.

For the manufacturers of office chairs the realizations of the science mean a substantial conversion of the usual construction guidelines. So far for instance a stable support was in the Lendenwirbelbereich, with which the here natural Vorwölbung of the spinal column could be held, one of the ideals ergonomic Designs, prevented it nevertheless dropping back into the allegedly harmful round back. If one considers however to the new discoveries, the perfect office chair must support each kind of attitude and movement, all the same whether with straight or round back, upright or back-leaned.

Sitting the future

An outrider in this area is the Sato Office GmbH from the Bavarian Ebermannsdorf. The enterprise, which belonged in former times to the steeped in tradition vehicle seating manufacturer Grammer AG, aligned already two congresses for renowned spinal column researchers, in order to always remain on the newest medical conditions. Among the participants also Professor were Dr. Hans Joachim Wilke and Professor Dr. Alf Nachemson. From this proximity to the research world already early an orientation developed for flexible sitting. One of the first developments was the AirShape Wirbelsäulenstütze. As simple as effective idea consists of four Luftkammern in the lower range of the backrest. If one leans back, air between the chambers distributes itself automatically over, until the support matches again perfectly the curvature of the Lendenwirbelsäule.

The recent result of the ergonomics research with Sato Office, a chair with the name „Galileo “, goes meanwhile completely new ways. Under that Design of the French star Architektin Francoise Hélène Jourda grazilen unusually hide themselves most modern technology. Apart from the Glide Tec mechanics already worked in other chairs, which push the seat forward with the Zurücklehnen, so that one can work also in a relaxed attitude further comfortably on the desk, are the Lordose Kyphose adjustment of the three-dimensional variable backrest the special highlight of the chair. Two patents were developed alone for this artificial spinal column. Mobile plastic elements rest on two bent metal seaweeds, which turn, as soon as the user back-leans. Thus the carrier elements are bent in such a way that the form of the backrest matches perfectly the respective seating position. With this system each part of the back has contact to the chair and the spinal column is always relieved.

Two further patents facilitate an adjusting of „Galileo “on the personal requirements. After psychological tests showed that most humans at their seat adjust hardly more than the height individually, one did not want to leave with Sato Office the healthy seats also in this regard to the coincidence. So seized now an innovative Federsystem already when putting the weight of the user and adapts automatically the counter-pressure of the mechanics to it. In order to change the seat depth, one rolls simply the flexibly arranged front edge of the seat face as desired in or out. Marion short, marketing directress with Sato Office summarizes: „Nearly everything knows ‚Galileo'. There is only one lever, and that is for the seat level. “

To reorient one's opinion time

„The biomechanical structures of the body are to be made, changing loaded and moved “, explain Professor Wilke. „With bone stand and volume disks it does not hold back view differently than with our muscles. They need training, otherwise they diminish. To “are appropriate modern trend of chair concepts as of „Galileo “to energize also in sitting for the movement and attitude change and to support the spinal column thereby in each position as well as possible. The best chair uses however nothing, if not first in the heads of humans in the offices a reorientation takes place, away of rigid, upright seats and to the healthy Lümmeln.

Sato Office GmbH
Marion short
Jubatus avenue 1, 92263 Ebermannsdorf
Tel: 09438 949-0, fax: 09438 949-40
E-Mail: info@satooffice.com, Internet: www.satooffice.com

Press office Gebhardt soul
Nymphenburger STR. 14, 80335 Munich
Tel: 089 500315-0, fax: 089 500315-15
E-Mail: pressebuero@gebhardt-seele.de

The Sato Office GmbH separated 1996, at that time still under the name Grammer of office chairs GmbH, from the nut/mother enterprise Grammer AG. While the Grammer AG belongs for decades to the world-wide largest manufacturers of vehicle seatings, one concentrates with Sato Office since that time on office seat furniture after most modern standards as well as on Festbestuhlung, approximately for theatres, lecture-rooms or cinemas. 2003 received the enterprise to one of the desired places in the rank list of the 100 innovativsten companies of Germany and by the Business magazine „Capital “as one of the best employers in Germany were distinguished. The newest product of Sato Office, „Galileo “, is available for October with selected dealers.

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