Anyone use an exercise ball for a chair?

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After 8+ hours in a computer chair almost every single day for 15 years, I'm starting to get some serious lower back pain. I can't sit for 30 minutes before it becomes too uncomfortable and I have to get up.

I've used $50 chairs and $800 chairs and they are all the same. In fact, I got a Herman Miller aeron chair for Christmas, but returned it today, because it didn't help at all.

Anyway, I just talked to a friend of mine who uses an exercise ball as a chair for 8 hours a day at her job and she says it's comfortable. However, I found conflicting information online as to it being good or bad for your back... Does anyone here use one? If so, for how long have you been using it?
 


both my brother and father use it. i dont use it- and its not really necessary. What i'd say to this? make sure to workout every day. this can be small increments of time each day but work on your core and this will be a whole lot less of a problem. The longer you stay static, the worse it'll get day to day.
 
I do sometimes too. I find it helps keep me alert and spend less time drifting off looking at pictures of pretty things.
 
Get yourself a 1 to 1 pilates instructor and work with them once a week for 6 months. Do some of the exercises they give you daily and you'll more than likely be able to manage most types of lower back pain. The exercises are very small and subtle so quite different from the types of exercising most active guys do eg youre looking to work your transverse abdominals rather than the normal rectus admominals. Also your pelvic floor which we tend to think of as a woman's exercise.
 
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subigo said:
After 8+ hours in a computer chair almost every single day for 15 years, I'm starting to get some serious lower back pain. I can't sit for 30 minutes before it becomes too uncomfortable and I have to get up.

I've used $50 chairs and $800 chairs and they are all the same. In fact, I got a Herman Miller aeron chair for Christmas, but returned it today, because it didn't help at all.

Anyway, I just talked to a friend of mine who uses an exercise ball as a chair for 8 hours a day at her job and she says it's comfortable. However, I found conflicting information online as to it being good or bad for your back... Does anyone here use one? If so, for how long have you been using it?
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Consider getting a Steelcase Leap chair and the unified reclining mechanism should help tremendously. Stretching your quad and hamstring should also help since your lower body is pretty tight from doing nothing for 8 hours.

This is the exact chair I have from steelcase in elmo leather white. It was a custom order that costed me $1300 shipped.
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