My name's Allison Heller. I am a, physical therapist. I have a
Master, MPT, and I've been doing that since, 1987.
And in 1993, I started Worksite International.
Which is a company,
that focuses on small to midsized businesses where we
provide ergonomic services and strategies to help
provide solutions for a healthier workplace.
I'm a board certified professional ergonomist and
also certified industrial ergonomist,
and certified disability analyst.
Worksite International Now,
has developed an ergonomics training academy,
and we focus on training professionals who are interested in,
using the science of ergonomics to also help companies,
whether internally or outside as consultants.
So today I'm trying the anthros chair,
and I'm totally excited about it.
The first time I sat on it,
wow, it just blew me away. The cushion comfort,
I felt like I was sitting on a cloud,
and then the back support is unlike anything I've ever experienced.
And when I say that,
I mean it sincerely in the sense that I've been doing
chair fittings, chair assessment and studying the
science of, chairs.
I call it the science of, sitting, chair assessment
selection fit literally since nineteen ninety three when I
started my business.
Everybody sits in a chair to perform computer work. So, as an ergonomic,
I've evaluated
thousands of people. Literally, if I was flying a plane,
you'd feel very comfortable because I've been evaluating
people thousands of hours, in chairs. And, matter of fact,
I am the inventor and creator of the chair assessment system.
Which is, aligned with our chair assessment specialist program.
But I came to that,
opportunity to develop a chair system because I literally have evaluated,
thousands of people, in particular,
when I was the ergonomics manager at the County of Monterey,
I evaluated
over seven hundred people,
seven hundred share fittings over a five or six year period.
And during that time, I had a chance to look at, really, in more detail,
how people were sitting and so bringing it back to what
Anthers has created here is something very unique, in the chair industry.
It's people have really not been able to innovate,
to the extent that,
possibly that answers is showing right now in the sense
that many of the features are similar. You've got the seat,
design, and you've got, cylinder,
and you've got a basic back crust,
often a single mesh component or two separate components.
You rarely see, three components, the seat with,
this lower sacral or lumbosacral support,
to support the the pelvis and the lower back. And then also
the thoracic component.
Most chair designs,
if you look they're kind of a sling almost with some too
much concavity in the upper back and a lot of convexity
or combination
concave and convex to create the lumbar support.
What I liked about this chair is that innovation and the
thought behind creating more of a a bunch of lower support
across the pelvic crest and the, the lumbos sacral joint itself.
And I'm on the theory that once you support the lumbar spine,
the rest of the spine follows,
which is accurate, but but to even make it more accurate,
it's really the pelvic angle that facilitates the lordosis,
and then
accentuates the natural contours of the spine.
And what the anthros chair has done is really just
facilitate it. More so than any chair I've sat in.
I don't,
you can get it with armrest or without, but I feel that
the flexibility I have with my arms to freely move them,
it feels very natural.
The other thing is that the the back width,
does not interfere with natural shoulder motion patterns,
and scapular motion patterns, which are essential
to, computer keyboarding and mouse use
Most chairs limit your opportunity to open the chest,
and allow shoulder range of motion. They also,
encourage arms a lot of rotational motions internally,
and that collapses the upper body and encourages louching.
So this chair I feel
has kind of extended my spine to the extent where
I can really,
perform and sit with significant more comfort
without worrying about my posture so to speak. Over time.
So if I had a long period of sitting, which is not
encouraged, but if I, most people do anyway,
I feel like I'm getting it's much harder for me to sit improperly,
in this way.
So,
if we look at it, I think it's just a beautiful, simple
design, just three pieces. That's really all we need.
It's easy to adjust.
The cushion is, amazing.
Even though I'm only five feet tall, I have plenty of, space,
posteriorly between my back by me and the front of the seat.
It feels so much support between my buttocks and
my lower back
and the upper back as well.
It's a sensation that I haven't experienced
or, felt with other chairs.
So for me, this is a game changer.
I think in the our marketplace, and it's something that I think
people aren't going to be used to, but I have to say that I
sat in this chair a few minutes previously on another day,
and I couldn't wait to get back to sitting it in again,
because of the unloading that I feel.
It's a very first unnatural, but then becomes very natural,
and supportive. Unlike I've experienced before.