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Why should a trader have a
swing chair. The reason is that traders prefer sitting, because it requires less
overall effort by their large muscles than when they stand. Traders believe that
sitting stabilizes their posture and helps them trader better.
Research is
now showing that movement is necessary for well being especially a trader under
constant stress. Unfortunately, today’s trader is becoming increasing
constrained in his trading process. The trader usually only moves a mouse and
occasionally types on the keyboard. He is constrained in a chair all day, which
gives him discomfort and potential health risks.
It is now
recognized that the constrained posture of the trader can contribute to a broad
range of chronic disorders. This increases joint impairments (arthritis);
inflamed tendons and tendon shealths, chronic joint degeneration (arthroses),
and muscle pain. Static and constrained postures interrupt blood flow in direct
proportion to the loads acting on the muscles. Muscle oxygenation is reduced
with fairly low loads. The constrained postures of the trader can cause chronic
degenerative alternations of the cervical, thoracic and lumbo-sacral spine.
These effects can magnify over time. An accumulation of residual strain over
years may set the stage for serious injury.
One reason
that it is important for movement is that after the age of ten, the spine loses
its ability to actively feed itself (or, rather feed the inter-vertebal discs)
and eliminate waste products. After this age, the spine receives nutrients and
eliminates wastes through passive changes in osmosis that are induced by
movement. There is scientific evidence that prolonged static sitting may
compromise spinal structures by reducing disk nutrition, restricting capillary
blood flow and increasing muscle fatigue.
For a trader to keep his
health, it is important to have the right chair to trade in. As far as I know
there is only one chair out there that is safe for a trader sitting in it all
day long. It’s called the SwingSeat. I call it the Swing Trading Chair. Dr. Jon
Sterngold, an expert in this area, evaluated and treated thousands of people
with back pain during his 25 year career in emergency medicine. He also has
severe degenerative lumbar disc disease. He knows that the SwingSeat chair is
both comfortable and therapeutic because of two factors. First, it facilitates
ideal back/pelvis/thigh angles, reducing pressure on lumbar discs and supporting
comfortable tension of the back ligaments. Second, by both allowing and
encouraging back movement in the seated position, ligament pain and inflammation
is kept to a minimum. The cause of most back pain is damaged ligaments from
injury and strain. The SwingSeat minimizes strain on these ligaments and via
continuous motion, facilitates healing. |