Effect of Dynamic Sitting on Pain Development - Part 2
Effect of Dynamic Sitting on Pain Development - Part 2 - a Randomized Controlled Cross-over Study
University of Applied Sciences for Health Professions Upper Austria
20 participants
May 12, 2025
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
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
Inclusion Criteria8
- 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
- Employment status: > 25 h / week
- Sufficient knowledge of German (min. B2 level)
- Body height of at least 160cm required
- Electrically or manually height-adjustable table at main workstation
Exclusion Criteria7
- 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
- Regular therapy or medication for pain or medication that affects the perception of pain (e.g. certain psychotropic drugs according to the package leaflet)
- office chair to which it is not possible to attach the swivel mechanism prototype
- Presence of any chronic disease that may influence pain perception (e.g., chronic kidney disease, fibromyalgia, neuropathy, chronic fatigue syndrome)
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Interventions
The dynamic office chair has a typical office chair design (e.g. seat pan and a lumbar support). The seat pan is mounted on a flexible mechanic construction that allows hip movements in the frontal plane while sitting.
The dynamic office chair has a typical office chair design (e.g. seat pan and a lumbar support). The seat pan is mounted on a flexible mechanic construction that allows hip movements in the frontal plane while sitting.
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NCT07197879