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What are the Benefits of Ergonomic Office Furniture?

According to AccountancyAge, British employees work 84,365 hours over the course of a lifetime. Knowing that British workers spend an average of 1,795 hours a year at work, it comes as no surprise that ergonomic office furniture is extremely popular amongst business professionals and employers alike. After all, if you’re spending most of your time at work, why not enjoy it and be comfortable?

Read our blog to learn the benefits of investing in ergonomic office furniture and discover why more and more industry leaders are turning to Humanscale for award-winning ergonomic products. Back Care Online is a proud distributor of Humanscale products, so shop our inventory

What Can Orthopedic Doctors Diagnose?

Suffering from back pain and osteoarthritis has sadly become an everyday occurrence for a large portion of the UK population. According to the NHS, osteoarthritis affects more than 8.75 million people in the UK alone and has become the leading type of arthritis. You may know that orthopedic doctors diagnose and treat anything to do with the musculoskeletal system, including back pain and arthritis, but how much do you really know about what they treat and diagnose on a daily basis?

Risk of Child Back Pain from Backpacks

The jury is out - Children and adolescents who carry a backpack aren’t at a higher risk of developing back pain according to a recent study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM). After compiling data from 63 cross-sectional studies and five prospective studies that followed people over a period of time, the BJSM has confirmed that there is no clear link between carrying heavy backpacks and back pain in children and adolescents.

Product Spotlight: Sealy Pocket Springback Pillow

Do you struggle to sleep at night due to back, shoulder or neck pains? Then you may want to consider our Sealy Pocket Springback Pillow. This is a remarkable pillow that offers a superb level of support for your back and body. The pillow will help you main the correct positioning of your spine as you sleep soundly in your bed.

The pillow is pocket sprung. This offers a flexible yet firm pillow for your head. It will then instantly spring back into shape after use. Inside the pillow the pocket springs are nestled safely in layers of memory foam. These layers will aid air circulation for you and your pillow, resulting in a comfortable night’s sleep, night after night.

Product Spotlight: Humanscale Liberty Chair

We are proud to introduce you to the Humanscale Liberty Chair. This task office chair is like no other mesh chair you have seen or experienced. The back of the seat is made up of three panels of mesh that fit every contour of your body in a way that a single mesh chair just can’t achieve.

Just as a tailor uses multiple pieces of material to form the perfect suit, Humanscale have combined multiple pieces of material to support your body and back, with unprecedented comfort.

Product Spotlight: Bed Wedge - Acid Reflux

A recent review that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that cancer of the oesophagus, (also known as adenocarcinoma), has become the fastest rising cancer among white men in many countries such as the United States.

The cancer of the oesophagus has been linked to obesity and acid reflux, which is why we would like to look at how our back wedges can reduce the risk of acid reflux symptoms.

Product Spotlight: Humanscale Foot Rocker

If you work long hours at your desk you may notice pressure on your lower back which can cause pain when sitting. Here at Back Care Online we have a product that will help reduce this pressure and help increase your blood circulation. This product is the Humanscale Foot Rocker.

The award winning Humanscale FR500 foot rocker delivers effortless functionality with a simple and stylish design. The foot rocker gets your feet moving and encourages gentle rocking of the feet which can help provide instant relief from prolonged sitting.

Back Pain Recovery With Teeter Inversion

Begin your journey to back pain recovery with Teeter Hang Ups and achieve real, sustainable results. 

Unlike many other products, Teeter Inversion Tables don’t just cover up symptoms, they target back pain at its source. By using Teeter Inversion Tables for just a few minutes each day, millions of users have relieved back pain in the comport of their own homes. Just take a look through our reviews for more details on how Teeter has already helped so many other people just like you.

Humanscale Freedom Chair - The Gold Standard In Office Seating

With the average office worker spending between 6 - 8 hours a day (around 2,000 hours every year!) sat in a chair, surely you deserve to be sat in the gold standard in office seating? The New York Times reviewed The Humanscale Freedom Task Chair as exactly that; the gold standard in office seating!

Teeter Gravity Boots for Back Pain

Do Gravity boots help your back?

Teeter Gravity boots have a variety of amazing benefits, including the potential to dramatically improve users suffering from back pain. People that have spent years suffering with back pain on a regular basis and finally finding a way to reduce or remove this back pian; by hanging upside down!

Many back pain sufferers find that teeter gravity boots, as a form of inversion therapy, eliminates their back pain, when nothing else is helping. By wearing the boots and hanging upside down users are able to reduce the pressure on their spinal columns. This then allows the muscles in the body to relax and for the discs in the spine to be rehydrated.