Since our Oslo meetings with Hans Christian Mengshoel in the early 2000's, we have loved the kneeling chair concept as have our customers. Over the years, we have imported numerous kneeling chair brands from around the world including balans, Varier, Stokke, Jobri, and HAG. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, a kneeling chair is an ergonomic chair that provides a kneeling-like sitting position. It increases the angle between the torso and thighs by tilting the pelvis forward and dropping the thighs below the hips. The shins provide a second point of contact with the chair, via a shin pad, so the body does not slide forward off the chair. This sitting position encourages correct spinal alignment. Despite the name, the knees do not bear any of the body’s weight. Rather, weight is distributed between the back, thighs, and shins, instead of solely in the lower back. As a result, compressive forces in the spine and associated back pain are minimized while sitting. Kneeling chairs are known by many other names including yoga Chair, knee chair, balance chair, balans chair, kneel sit chair, posture chair, and Norwegian chair. more
The kneeling or ‘seiza bench’ has been used for centuries in Tibet.
Furniture for sitting, patented in Rome, Italy, on November 17, 1970.
J. Harding Vowles, U.S patent no 3669493, June 13 1972, Canada. This chair was designed to reduce pressure on the posterior during extended periods of sitting by transferring some weight to the knees.
Knee–chair by Peter Gillings Jr. April 17. 1973 US patent no 3863978. Originally designed for a snowmobile.
Hans C Mengshoel, June 15, 1979, U.S. patent no 4377309.
Balans chairs — Peter Opsvik, Varier — 1979, Norway
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