The geoCentric:

• Offers multiple pneumatic cylinder height options. This allows users to be ideally positioned, feet firmly on the floor surface, for extended periods of sitting. This promotes ideal seated postures that decrease workloads on the user’s hips and lumbar areas.
• The design of the geoCentric high-back and tall-back backrest is ideal. It ensures maximum contact to the user’s spine from the scapular/shoulder blade area to the lumbar curve and follows the natural/neutral curvatures of the spine allowing spinal stability and comfort while in a seated position. The backrest is also highly adjustable in height.
• The Air Lumbar feature offers additional adjustability to the user’s lumbar spine. This ensures neutral lumbar curvature while seated.
• The seat pan can be customized to meet the user’s anatomical requirements. This is important as two bodies are not built identically. Employees who are similar in height may be very different in the bone lengths of their thighs. Seat pan depth can directly impact the user’s seated posture and the sitting forces that get placed on the hip joints and lumbar spine. Although many seating products, like the geoCentric, offer a seat-slider feature, where the seat pan can be moved back and forth, if the seat pan itself does not properly fit the length of the user’s thighs, when the seat slider feature if moved forward, it can produce a gap at the rear of the seat pan and under the bottom portion of the backrest. This gap can be felt by many employees when sitting and also decreases maximum support to the sacral area of the spine.
• The Triple Density Foam or Memory Foam offer excellent long-term support and comfort. Foam thickness and type will determine the type of pressure points that may occur to the buttock and thighs during extended periods of sitting. This type of foam also tends not to deteriorate/break down quickly from repetitive use or extended periods of sitting by the user.
• The different shaped levers on the chair are user friendly. Each different shaped lever is connected to a different adjustment feature option which is beneficial when training the user on the chair features.
• The padded, waterfall design and swivel 360⁰ arm caps and armrest height adjustability offer maximum support, comfort and positioning of the upper extremities during typing/mouse task. As an Ergonomic consultant, I cannot stress enough the importance of proper arm cap finish and swivel feature availability on armrests. The purpose of a good armrest, on office seating, is to take the weight of the arms off of the user’s upper back and neck structures/muscles during extended periods of typing/mouse tasks. The 360⁰ swivel feature offers the highest level of armrest adjustability which, when adjusted in conjunction with the armrest height feature, allows the user to position their arms close to the trunks of their bodies ensuring shoulder joint neutrality and decreased workloads on the neck, upper/middle back muscles. The soft, padded, waterfall design arm cap option decreases the amount of contact stress placed on the forearms or elbows when using the armrests. Contact stress occurs when the body accesses/or leans onto a hard surface/finish which can compress muscle tissue and tendons and may impact circulation during extended use.