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How To Choose The Right Desk How To Choose A Desk Chair How To Style Your DeskTruth vs. Myth: Is Using an Exercise Ball to Replace Your Office Chair a Good Idea?by Matt Middlesworth Join +30,000 of Your OHS Peers Get free access to exclusive ergonomics and injury prevention resources. MSD Prevention 101 Workshop Step-by-Step Guides to Recommended Ergonomic Assessment Tools Educational Workplace Athlete HandoutsThe objective of the study was to evaluate the differences between sitting on a stability ball and in an office chair in terms of trunk muscle activation and lumbar spine posture.Stability balls have become increasingly popular as an alternative to office chairs to help reduce the prevalence of low back pain; however, little research has been conducted on their use as office chairs.The 14 participants (7 men, 7 women) were required to sit on both a stability ball and an office chair for 1 hour each while performing various computer workstation tasks throughout the sitting periods.
The activation of eight muscles and lumbar spine posture were measured and analyzed.Increased muscle activation in thoracic erector spinae (p = .0352), decreased pelvic tilt (p = .0114), and increased perceived discomfort (p < .0001) while sitting on the stability ball were observed.The small changes in biological responses when sitting on a stability ball as compared with an office chair, combined with the increased reported discomfort while on the ball, suggests its use for prolonged sitting may not be advantageous.Prolonged sitting on a stability ball does not greatly alter the manner in which an individual sits, yet it appears to increase the level of discomfort. Therefore, it is important to fully explore a new chair design and consult scientific research before implementing its use. I know sitting at a desk all day is really bad for me. Is sitting on an exercise ball any better? What if instead of sitting in an office chair, I perch with good posture on an exercise ball? Seems like sitting that way engages some of my muscles so perhaps isn't quite so bad (I hope!).
Reader Question • 432 votes Unfortunately, the answer seems to be no. “To be quite frank, I cannot see any advantage or reason for a person to be using an exercise ball as an office chair,” says Jack P. Callaghan, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Spine Biomechanics and Injury Prevention at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. Although you might expect that sitting on the ball would demand extra exertion to keep you upright and stable, when Dr. Callaghan and his colleagues had healthy young volunteers sit alternately on a ball, an office chair and a backless stool while machines measured muscle activity in their abdomens and lower backs, they found no meaningful differences in the seating options; sitting on a ball did not provide a mini-workout for the midsection. Ball chairs do not improve posture, either. Research by Dr. Callaghan and others have shown that people generally slump just as much on a ball as in a normal chair and that back pain is not reduced.
And, in part because sitting on a ball chair involves more contact area between the seating surface and your backside than a chair does — you sink into the ball somewhat — many new adopters of ball chairs report increased discomfort in their backsides. Not all news about ball chairs is bad, of course. In one study from 2008, clerical workers on balls burned marginally more calories -- about 4 per hour -- than those on chairs. But new research from Dr. Callaghan’s lab suggests that they may also have been putting themselves in almost comical peril. He found that when workers on ball chairs reach sideways for something, they risk toppling over. (A personal aside: My attempt to use a ball chair ended after my dog ferried a thorn into my home office and the thorn lodged beneath the ball. I still haven’t gotten the coffee stains off of the ceiling.) If your concern is with sitting too much, a better solution is probably to stand up periodically throughout the workday, which has been found to improve health.