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Finally, it’s gone. My big, state-of-the-art chair – the one with all the levers and sliders and knobs that was supposed to banish my back pain? I fired it. I replaced it with something small, sleek and Scandinavian, called an Iloa. It’s a stool, on wheels. I’m not saying that it’s magic, but it might be.
I should back up. The chair that I just made redundant wasn’t my first. If I remember correctly, it was my fifth, each purchase meticulously researched and custom-ordered, with a single goal: To sit comfortably for hours in front of my computer monitor, and not be miserable afterward.
With the help of some really smart people at Fully, a furniture company that is dedicated to the principles of active sitting, I realized that I had the whole thing wrong. I’d been searching for a chair that did the work for me. I wanted it to hold my body upright, with plenty of lumbar support, so I could ignore my skeleton. It had to cushion my tush in high-density foam, so that I couldn’t feel my sitting bones. But my body never wanted that. All along, it wanted freedom and movement, and I refused to listen.