Effect of Dynamic Sitting on Pain Development - Part 2

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Conditions studied: Lower Back Pain

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07197879

Run by

University of Applied Sciences for Health Professions Upper Austria

People needed

20

Starts

2025-05-12

Expected to finish

2027-03-31

Last updated by the study team

2025-09-29

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 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

You may not qualify if…

• 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)

Where it is running

• University of Applied Sciences for Health Professions Upper Austria — Linz, Upper Austria, Austria (enrolling)

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