Seat cushions: why you need them and which one to choose

A seden­tary lifestyle is the scourge of mod­ern man. First we sit at a desk at school, then in the office, in the car… In the sit­ting posi­tion, there is more pres­sure on the spine and mus­cles than in the lying or stand­ing posi­tion, which means that the time spent on a chair should be treat­ed with spe­cial atten­tion.

If you sit a lot because of neces­si­ty, then you know how tired your back is from this. When you straight­en up, it brings only tem­po­rary relief. Some­one sets aside time for a lit­tle warm-up, some­one reminds him­self to get up and walk, but often such under­tak­ings lack reg­u­lar­i­ty — and peo­ple remem­ber that they should move when the neck is already stiff and the low­er back is stiff.

How­ev­er, you can make the sit­ting posi­tion less harm­ful and save your­self from future prob­lems with the spine — this is a spe­cial pil­low for sit­ting.

Seat Cush­ion Fea­tures:

- a spe­cial shape that allows you to take the cor­rect posi­tion on the chair;

- reg­u­lar use of the pil­low will help you for­get about old pains, and new ones will not arise;

- The pil­low will help peo­ple suf­fer­ing from pain in the coc­cyx.

Types of seat cushions

Anatom­i­cal­ly shaped seat cush­ion

The spe­cial shape of the anatom­i­cal seat cush­ion allows you to wrap around the body and thus sig­nif­i­cant­ly increase seat­ing com­fort; pro­tru­sions and depres­sions ensure the cor­rect posi­tion of the body. Such pil­lows often have holes that peo­ple suf­fer­ing from hem­or­rhoids will appre­ci­ate.

U‑shaped pil­low

For those who may not get up from a chair for sev­er­al hours in a row, a U‑shaped pil­low has been devel­oped — with a recess in the back, where the coc­cyx area falls when land­ing, which reduces the load in this area. The more even shape allows the sit­ter to change posi­tion repeat­ed­ly dur­ing long peri­ods of sit­ting.

Seat cush­ion “ring”

She is also a “donut” — it is this pil­low that resem­bles it in shape. The recess in the mid­dle of the pil­low allows you to dis­trib­ute the weight of a per­son on the hips, and the area that tra­di­tion­al­ly suf­fers from a sit­ting posi­tion — the sacrum, coc­cyx and pelvic ring — fall into the void.

wedge pil­low

The name speaks for itself — the pil­low has the shape of a wedge, the per­son sits as if slight­ly inclined, which cre­ates the effect of a knee stool. Can be used on a car seat or com­put­er chair.

How to properly use a seat cushion

- Consult with a specialist

If you are con­cerned about dis­com­fort in the back, then this is an occa­sion to con­sult a doc­tor. He will help you alle­vi­ate the con­di­tion and find the right pil­low for sit­ting.

– Start with the right furniture

The chair or arm­chair on which you place the pil­low should itself be com­fort­able. Please note that the height of the chair will change when you start using the cush­ion; it should be such that your legs in a sit­ting posi­tion are on the floor.

- Don’t make adjustments

If you have already cho­sen a seat cush­ion for your­self, do not add any­thing to it, do not put addi­tion­al struc­tures under it and on it, this will negate all the ergonom­ics of your pur­chase, because its shape will change.

- Use a pillow as often as possible

Buy­ing a seat cush­ion is half the bat­tle, it is impor­tant to use it reg­u­lar­ly, only then you can achieve max­i­mum results.

At home, at work, in the car — wher­ev­er you have to sit, it will be use­ful to install an ortho­pe­dic pil­low.