Effect of Dynamic Sitting on Pain Development - Part 2

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18-65
SponsorUniversity of Applied Sciences for Health Professions Upper Austria

About this trial

As a follow-up project to the Dyn-Sit-Pain study, this research aims to investigate the overall health as well as the physical and mental well-being through dynamic office chairs. The development of an innovative dynamic office chair concept will be professionally and scientifically supported, and the developed prototypes will be examined within the framework of usability studies.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Signed Informed consent

People aged between 18 and 65 years

People classified as pain developers (e.g.: a 10 mm increase in pain on a 100 mm paper-based VAS)

Office workers

Disqualifiers

Physical or mental limitations that make dynamic sitting or use of the procedure chair difficult (e.g. wheelchair users, vestibular dysfunction)

Pregnancy

Sitting for less than 20 hours per week at the main workplace

Body weight over 110 kg and a body height over 195 cm

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Dynamic office chair (saddle chair with standard pendulum mechanism)
  • Dynamic Office Chair (office swivel chair with integrated newly developed pendulum mechanism)

Treatment groups

20 Participants
are divided into 4 treatment groups