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Effects of a Dynamic Chair on Chair Seat Motion and Trunk Muscle Activity during Office Tasks and Task Transitions.

  • Nüesch C Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University Hospital Basel, 4031 Basel, Switzerland. corina.nueesch@usb.ch.
  • Kreppke JN Department of Sport, Exercise and Health, University of Basel, 4052 Basel, Switzerland. jan-niklas.kreppke@stud.unibas.ch.
  • Mündermann A Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University Hospital Basel, 4031 Basel, Switzerland. annegret.muendermann@unibas.ch.
  • Donath L Department of Intervention Research in Exercise Training, German Sport University Cologne, 50933 Köln, Germany. l.donath@dshs-koeln.de.
  • 2018-12-06
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  • International journal of environmental research and public health. - 2018
dynamic sitting
inactivity
muscle activation
office chair
sedentarism
Electromyography
Ergonomics
Female
Humans
Interior Design and Furnishings
Male
Motor Activity
Muscle, Skeletal
Posture
Young Adult
English Employing dynamic office chairs might increase the physical (micro-) activity during prolonged office sitting. We investigated whether a dynamic BioSwing® chair increases chair sway and alters trunk muscle activation. Twenty-six healthy young adults performed four office tasks (reading, calling, typing, hand writing) and transitions between these tasks while sitting on a dynamic and on a static office chair. For all task-transitions, chair sway was higher in the dynamic condition (p < 0.05). Muscle activation changes were small with lower mean activity of the left obliquus internus during hand writing (p = 0.07), lower mean activity of the right erector spinae during the task-transition calling to hand writing (p = 0.036), and higher mean activity of the left erector spinae during the task-transition reading to calling (p = 0.07) on the dynamic chair. These results indicate that an increased BioSwing® chair sway only selectively alters trunk muscle activation. Adjustments of chair properties (i.e., swinging elements, foot positioning) are recommended.
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