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Hi Ann

Sorry been out for a meal so just seen your comment.

The kneeling chair looks odd but is amazingly comfortable to sit at and yes it would be fine for working on a computer. That would be a similar position to me working at my desk with my engraving.

They vary quite a bit in price. The blue one on this page looks like mine. (Sorry it's a long link!). This seems to be one of the middle range in price.

http://www.furnitureatwork.co.uk/WebConnect/MainServlet?storeId=FaW&catalogId=webconnect&langId=en_GB&action=CategoryDisplay&screenlabel=index&categoryId=000859&route=000148.000708&gclid=CLylqMu2l5ECFQVaMAodVm-iIA

Here is a bit more information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneeling_chair

If you Google "Kneeling chair" you can find more types.

Sue
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Lots of tips and info on here thank you. Sue (in Somerset). By a kneeling chair is that the chair that you sit on sort of backwards? would it be any good for working on the computer?

Ann
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About 14 years ago I ruptured a disc in the lumbar region of my back and was crippled for months. Apparently the jelly-like substance in the centre of a disc had oozed out through a crack and solidified around my sciatic nerve.

There was no option but to have surgery, despite warnings of paralysis etc. but it did alleviate the terrible pain I was in.

However, I still have back problems with some degree of discomfort almost always present, and occasionally (about twice a year), it becomes excruciating again, and I can't even stand upright. Sitting down is also a problem.

Valium (diazepam) helps because it is a muscle relaxant, and eases the spasms, but really it's a matter, for me, of waiting 2 or 3 weeks for the worst of it to go.

Only tip I can give is, as someone said before, when you are in bed, put a pillow or cushion between your knees as this helps to keep the spine straight.

Dee
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My back can sometimes go for no good reason. I can understand the times when I've been doing something silly like shifting rocks but just reaching into a cupboard did it once.

I'm a glass engraver and need to sit and work very close to the glass. I was finding that I could only do an hour or so before my back started to ache. Then a physiotherapist friend recommended one of those kneeling chairs.

I've got one I use for work now and it's great. I haven't had a bad back for months now (touch wood!).

I do tend to work for an hour or so then take a break and wander about for a few minutes before going back. That means I can now keep going for several hours.

So if you have a sedentary job and haven't tried a kneeling chair it might be worth doing so.

Sue
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I have started waring a magnetic belt for mine it does help you can get them from Kleeneze or ebay there is a person selling them in a shop on there if you just put magnetic belt in the address he will come up I think they are £12 but well worth it for lower back it also makes you look slim by keeping your tummy in lol

Sue

nudge for good thread

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If I run my hand down my back there is a real dip around my waist band area where the spine curves inwards.

Ann
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lisa thats what my hubbies got, he says he feels 90 at times...lol
they said to me to have op for slipped discs and the nerve damage but ive heard so many bad reports of it not working or total parallasis i said no....
i was on diazepam, got taken off them....shame worked...only time since is when i had hosp op last year, they gave it instead of diclofenic...weeee was i happy..
theve just stopped my dla as my doc had put down the medication im on and they came back and said due to meds they feeel i'm ok......................???????.. trying to appeal not heard anything yet been 2 months and last payment was beginning of jan... so dont think i'll be getting nothing untill i hear, then iff they say no, i have to reapply and working it all out i'll have 1 months lost payment ....
i was on paroxatine, but after having 1 to 1 with doc they said it was best for me to manage the back pain and the depression was because of it......some days are awefull, and i confess to having a sneaky fag.....changed doc's, not very helpfull, just tells me to get on with it...i suppose he has a point....
my family help alot....and baby keeps me going, but that blinkin pain shoots up when i forget and twist to grab somthing or pick him up...lol
gawd blimey just seen how long this is...lol
xxxx

I suffer with a lot of pain in my back as I was born with a condition called Scoliosis, I was told that they would eventually operate to straighten my spine but 33 years later I am still waiting, I had it mentioned to me again by my doctor last year about been referred to see someone about having op done but said no as I have lived with this condition this long theres no point in having it done now.
Sometimes the pain in my back is awful and my OH has to help me a lot when I am suffering.

the only thing that helps me is diazepam:

3 disc had to be repaired that op was a joke


now they want to do somemore handy work
today i couldnt get out of the chair

its awful isnt it ann

i suffer with my back,
i assume its part of fibromyalgia,
everything else flippin is,
lol

like you say hot baths help,
i find moving round slowly helps, but its the getting up thats hard in first place,
ave you tried a cream instead of a tablet,
liike voltarol or patches like curaheat,
you can get them in wraps too,

take it easy and dont over stretch,
or bend

But you didn't right? You are a gardener and ran a landscaping firm. Does your back still trouble you? Was the op for disc trouble? I have heard before that they don't always work.

Ann
Glos

bad backs now heres where keith can talk for ever
15 years ago i had to have op on my back ( wrong move ) iif i knew then what i know now i would have told them to stick it

9 years ago i had more problem with my back
they said i will never work again and told me to stop work

The strange thing is that after a while the pain becomes normal. I find I am quite surprised when I actually can't feel the pain!! Like something is missing. A lot of the time it is more a stiffness than a pain, then I twist round suddenly and boy does that make me jump when the muscle 'twangs'.

Getting in and out of cars I feel about 90.

ann
Glos

ann, both me and hubby suffer from back probs, he's got a curviture of the spine had since birth and i've got slipped discs stiffness and at the mo their looking into arthritis...
pain same as you around the groin area, was on diclofenic but when pregnant they gave me parcetamol, now i'm on amitriptyline to help me sleep....
not many people do say they have a prob, even if its mild, hope this thread can tempt them to post..
xx

It is the base of my spine that curves the wrong way Lorraine. seems like most people on here don't suffer with their backs. yours sounds very painful.

Ann
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I HAVE STENOSIS OF THE SPINE a very painfull condition, at the bottom of my spine where it curves mine is straight and is thining, didnt know i had it till i had a exray as always had pain there and thought it was paert of fibro one of the reasons why i use morphine would be intereted to hear from anyone else who has it xx puss x

Obviously not as many sufferers as I thought.

Ann
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