Good chairs for people with Sciatica?

[seepy83]

I'm looking into buying an office chair for someone who suffers from sciatic nerve pain pretty regularly. Anyone have recommendations?

 

[seepy83]

Anyone?

 

[BoomerD]

I have a bad back that includes sciatic pain. I bought a chair at Office Depot several years ago that has "open arms" that allow me to stretch out the leg that's most affected.

No longer available though.

Similar to this, but not the same:

 

[Howard]

I would suggest perhaps getting a professional opinion from a doctor or PT.

 

[Scotteq]

Been there, done that, and I have the scars (plus knowledge that morphine makes me violently ill) from the surgery to show for it.

IMHO - a good chair helps, and a Standing Desk helps more; since the sufferer can move back and forth between the two and still work. But ultimately it's on the sufferer to do their stretching and core excercises so their muscles can carry the load that their discs can not.

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[DrPizza]

I had a friend who was looking for one of those kneeling chairs; they're supposed to be good for sciatica (according to her.) I know nothing about it, so you can do your research on those chairs yourself.

 

[nanette1985]

My autistic teenager has sciatica. Best chair for him, after much research and testing, is a rocking chair. Allows him to keep moving and keep changing position, which helps his pain.

Sciatica comes in several different flavors. There's no one best chair for all.

 

[seepy83]

Thanks for the input. I was trying to get some input out of the person that I wanted to buy it for, but it doesn't seem like she's spent much time finding out what's best for it. She basically just said some chairs are better than others. But she wasn't sure if good lumbar support helps or what. I get the impression that it's just very uncomfortable "condition" (if that's the right word for it), and what works to ease the pain one minute might not work the next.

Scotteq - I know there are a handful of stretches/exercises that a doctor recommended she do every morning, but she doesn't do them often enough (I think because it only acts up a couple of times a year, so she becomes complacent).

 

[TecHNooB]

oh god, i don't want to hear the word sciatica ever again.

 

[BoomerD]

Thanks for the input. I was trying to get some input out of the person that I wanted to buy it for, but it doesn't seem like she's spent much time finding out what's best for it. She basically just said some chairs are better than others. But she wasn't sure if good lumbar support helps or what. I get the impression that it's just very uncomfortable "condition" (if that's the right word for it), and what works to ease the pain one minute might not work the next.

Scotteq - I know there are a handful of stretches/exercises that a doctor recommended she do every morning, but she doesn't do them often enough (I think because it only acts up a couple of times a year, so she becomes complacent).

I agree with a couple of above posters. There is no one chair that's going to work for everyone because (among other reasons) there's usually no one single cause of sciatica. What works for me, might make someone else miserable as hell.
Yes, your friend SHOULD do her stretches and exercises to take the pressure off of the sciatic nerve...IF that's the cause of the pain. (sometimes, what seems like sciatica is actually caused by something else, such as SI joint dysfunction)