20 Best Desk Chairs For Scoliosis (2023 Updated)

BEWARE – THERE IS NO WAY TO ADJUST THE HEIGHT OF THE LUMABR SUPPORT ON THIS CHAIR – so, if your height and or torso isn’t the exact size this chair was designed for, the lumbar support will hit your back in the wrong place, making the chair uncomfortable and useless.

I have dreamed of owning a Herman Miller Aeron chair for a long time. My work has shifted to more computer and desk time. For my 50th birthday, I took the plunge and excitedly spent more on a chair than I could really afford.

My thinking was, this chair will last a lifetime and sitting comfortably and taking care of my body seemed like a good investment in me :). The chair came a few weeks earlier than the estimated delivery time, and my work/travel schedule prevented me from really giving it a try for the first month.

I noticed it was uncomfortable and the lumbar support wasn’t exactly right but the video I watched before buying it clearly shows the lumbar support as being fully adjustable so I didn’t worry about it.

When I was finally able to use the chair, it didn’t feel quite right, and I couldn’t figure out how to adjust the lumbar support. I wasn’t really concerned as the chair has the reputation for being fully adjustable and Herman Miller has an incredible reputation.

I re-watched the video on the Herman Miller website that shows the full adjustable lumbar support and began trying to adjust the chair. In the first section of the film it show how to increase or decrease the lumbar support anomy chair was able to do that.

HOWEVER, it the next part showing how to adjust the height of the lumbar support, it was suddenly showing the back of a different (older) model of the chair that does adjust. I called customer service to learn that the chair I spent nearly 1,700 for DOES NOT have an adjustment for the height of the lumbar support.

Further, because it took me two months to figure that out, my chair is beyond the return date – so I am stuck with an expensive chair that does not do what the website claims it does. Share on you, Herman Miller for making a chair that claims adjust to fit everyone but does not.

I know nearly everyone (Including myself) find the price of the Herman Miller Aeron to be completely insane when first looking at it. I had been aware of the chair for many years before finally deciding to purchase it at the start of this year, with the price being the only thing keeping me from buying one sooner.

I think I should first start with the cons, as whenever you pay this much of a premium for a chair, you will automatically expect it to be good, and want to find every reason to avoid buying it. Con #1 is the fact the chair gets very dirty very quickly.

Since the chair is made of a mesh material, the seat pan and backrest will act (and I will do my best at describing this) in many ways like a cheese grater. Shuffling from side to side will lead to small fibers of your clothing being torn off by the small holes in the mesh.

While this is nowhere near enough to actually damage your clothing, you will find that after a week, the area beneath the chair will be completely caked in dust. This may be a pedantic point, however it is something you should be aware of, especially if you are very sensitive to dust.

While I am not such a person, I am very sensitive to needing to vacuum my floor every few days for the sole purpose of getting rid of half a kilogram of shedded shorts and t shirts. Con#2 You must sit perfectly.

To give some background info on this chair, it was designed in the early-mid 1990s for office workers to sit in for 8 hours a day. Back then, the idea of sitting at a desk for “entertainment” was not really on the cards.

You sat in an office chair because you were working on your computer. As such, the chair was designed so that the person using it would not get tired or fatigued by sitting in a perfect/correct posture for 8 hours a day.

These days, it is far more common to watch films, TV shows, play videogames or generally relax while using a computer for leisure purposes. This means it is far more common today to sit in a more relaxed position in an office chair, either with your legs up, or reclined very far back.

However this is not really what the chair was designed for, and with it being as much an art piece as a chair, Herman Miller are somewhat restricted in being able to change the design to accomodate for the changing ways in which we use computers.

This means that unless you use the Aeron with perfect posture all the time (sitting with your lower back against the backrest, arms at 90 degrees and both feet flat on the floor), the chair is actually uncomfortable.

The chair is only as ergonomic and comfortable as you are willing to make it. If you sit exactly as it is intended, then you will have no issues, but if you deviate from this even slightly, the chair becomes more of a torture chamber.

If you were to sit cross legged on the chair, your ankles would be pressing up against hard plastic. If you try and slouch forward, you are sitting with pretty much no support for your back or bottom.

What I am saying is, unless you use the chair perfectly, it is not going to be very comfortable. However, if you do use it correctly, it is the most comfortable chair out there. As for the good aspects, there really are too many to mention.

Complete customizability of nearly every aspect means you can find the exact settings that are correct for you. The mesh design means you never get overheated while using it, and everything has a premium feel to it with no squeaks, rattles or clicks.

The 12 year Herman Miller warranty will also mean you wont need to go chair shopping for at least another decade.

Having like many others been WFH with long hours spent on video confs but also very often ending the day with a sore back and shoulders I decided to replace my 25 year old office chair. I had no idea there were so many models available nor in such a vast price range.

To shorten research somewhat I turned to JLP. After many hours of comparison I settled on the vast expense of this model. However, not many reviews of it but 3 things tipped it: well accepted expertise in ergonomics /design, place of manufacture, and guarantee.

Plus availability and I had some vouchers from earlier purchases. Money well spent. Instant comfort, lots of knobs to twiddle for teensey adjustments and no bad back/sore shoulders since. Cheaper than osteopath visits???.

The Steelcase – Gesture Shell Back Office Chair is a very nice high-end office chair that really has me wondering why I hadn’t invested in something like this sooner. I work a pretty standard 9 to 5 office job where the majority of my time is spent sitting in front of a computer.

Up to this point, I have mainly used cheaper hand-me-down office chairs for many years now, and this has taken its toll on my body. This has been my first experience with a truly high-end office chair and the difference compared to what I am accustomed to is staggering.

This Steelcase chair has so many adjustment options yet it is so simple to make whatever adjustments you may need to make to get the chair just right for you and your situation. As I typically do whenever I receive and open a new product, I first looked for some sort of instruction manual when unboxing the chair.

To my initial surprise, no such document came with the chair, but it didn’t take me long to figure out why. Assembling the chair was very easy to figure out since most of the assembly was already done.

All I had to do was place the pneumatic cylinder in the wheelbase and then line up the upper portion of the chair and place it on top of the pneumatic cylinder. The chair is pretty heavy but I was able to lift it and with the help of someone else who lined up the cylinder with the point where it is inserted into the bottom of the chair, I had it setup very quickly.

After assembling the chair, it was then easy to figure out what each of the adjustment knobs did and I really liked how smooth it felt when making any of the available adjustments. One of my favorite things about this chair is the wide range of adjustments that can be made to the arm rests.

This is often one of the hardest things to get exactly right on most chairs because of the limits most regular office chairs have when it comes to adjusting the arm rests. This is certainly not the case with this Steelcase office chair and now I have a chair with arm rests that are in the absolute perfect position for me and my needs.

Overall, the Steelcase – Gesture Shell Back Office Chair is an amazing high-end office chair and I highly recommend it!.

Chair designer failed miserably in not installing means to adjust height. All features are rendered useless through the fact that this chair is suited to provide comfort and support to only a person of a specific size, height, weight.

To that ONE PERSON it may be a dream to sit on, but to ALL OTHERS its a nightmare! How did the designer get away with omitting such a vital feature? What a waste of time, effort, materials, and money! Such a flaw in thought and design is ample cause for termination.

D. J. De Pree would surely be shamed by this disgrace!.

I keep reading about a massage feature in reviews, but after setting it up and using it, there is nothing of the sort here. It’s a good chair, I’m a 5’1 170 lb woman with wide hips, and I fit perfectly fine on it, it might not work with someone taller or bigger.

I do wish it was more “uncomfortable” which is what I was looking for in a chair. Something that doesn’t allow me to melt into the chair too much, and sit up straight. This kind of allows getting too comfortable, but if you have a firm pillow you can fit in the dip between lower back and the chair.

I have been using the plush luxury leather chairs most of my adult life for gaming and work on computer, and I have had nothing but back issues. My posture has gotten horrible. I recently sat in one of those cheapie little desk chairs that forced me to sit up straight, and it felt so good to have spine aligned right.

This inspired my decision to buy this, but it might be a bit too comfortable for me still.

So this chair is great for me but my 6’2 husband not so much, which is fine because I got it for me, it’s MY chair, so he shouldn’t be sitting in it anyway. I call that a win. I happen to think it’s actually really comfortable especially considering how cheap it was.

Looks nice enough and it was super easy to assemble. Seems pretty durable. I’ve spent a couple of days in this chair working and so far not one backache. Delivery was fast. No damages with any of the equipment.

I’m happy with it so far!.

The lumbar back part is amazing on this chair. Compared to my other chair which I very much like, the lumbar is much more significant on this Home Office Chair w Lumbar Support. The seat cushion is a little thinner and the actual size is smaller but not bad at all.

The arm rests are narrow on this chair. 3″ seems to be perfect and on this chair they are about 2″. None of these things mentioned are complaints, just observations to be considered. I would recommend this chair for sure.

If you are a very large person you may want a chair with a wider seat and thicker cushion. But this is very comfortable for small and average sized people. One big factor for me was the ability to raise it pretty high and that works great with this chair.

IšverstiShow in original languageConoscevo già la poltrona avendo provato quella di un collega, la versione precedente di oltre una quindicina di anni, ancora oggi pari al nuovo. Reputo il nuovo modello molto comodo ed equivalente anche perché non stravolge le caratteristiche di base del modello classico, già ottime per chi come me ha problemi lombari dovuti a postura errata e ernia del disco lombo sacrale.

Ritrovo la stessa solidità, traspirabilità della tela in rete, ergonomia e morbidezza della seduta: insomma, squadra che vince non si cambia. Il nuovo supporto lombare è molto comodo perché sostiene esattamente le vertebre della parte bassa della schiena, non so però se consigliarla a chi soffre di altri problemi, magari alla parte alta della schiena e al collo in quanto credo che lo schienale sia più corto rispetto ad altri modelli e non possiede poggiatesta.

Consiglio comunque di consultare un esperto per scelta della corretta taglia (A, B o C) e per la regolazione più adatta alle proprie esigenze e gusto.

IšverstiShow in original languageVery happy with this purchase. I work from home full time so a good chair is a must. This is the 3rd and final chair I’ve purchased over the last 2 years. Back in the office days I sat in a Herman Miller chair and didn’t think anything of it.

For the home office I bought cute chairs that killed my back and hamstrings. I was sitting on a seat cushion to alleviate pain. Then I decided it was time to get a really good chair. All the pain quickly went away along with the seat cushion.

I don’t think about my chair anymore because I’m comfy! This is definitely worth the investment if you work from home.

Fabric: Sync Everglade – tight & soft knit, like a fave shirt. I know this is a well designed chair that will serve for years. But it sure is hard to cross-shop now, so I can’t say if a LeapV2 would be better for me.

I got this since for all the money, I would at least be getting a solid option. I went for all the shiny extras (irrelevant to ergo) since I was going to be stuck with it anyway. I’m WFH and our rocking/kneeling chair was great for motion but unsupportive & bad for computing.

I appreciate the HM vision & feel is an opinionated design to encourage healthy positions rather than the Gesture, whose pitch is to support you in “”any position. “” It looks good, moves easily. No distracting sounds, yes it sometimes makes trivial ones when you move.

I guess it’s comfortable, only when I get up do I realize how long I’ve been sitting. There’s certainly the option for motion in the chair, but I’m looking forward to my standing desk for variety. My tailbone is bony & sticks out, so it’s difficult to sit fully into low back of the chair.

I have max backfit to get all the lumbar support, but the base curve starts very low and I have to push my hips down & back into it to get the most support for the rest of my back. As I lean past the second recline level, I feel my spine arch off the back, and wish there was more support.

I may pick up a cheap mesh lumbar support and see if that helps. I already located my local HM dealer/svc center to get lift swapped to the low height range one. I’m 5″”7′ but even at the lowest height my knees have a greater than 90¬∫ angle, and I can feel strain if I work in a deep recline.

I also got cosmetic arm plugs in case I go armless. The arms do not go as low as my thighs. I have long arms and really want a low desktop as close to me as possible. (Sadly low-height was not an online option here.

I really should have emailed/chatted various places about pricing on a full-out special order. ) Fully Assembled costs the same, just do that.

Needed to upgrade my office chair to one that improves my posture and can be precisely adjusted to my body shape. This is the chair. It’s not easy to dial it in to meet your exact needs, and it takes some time to get used to and some fiddling, because it’s so unlike any chair you’ve probably used before.

It can also change your work posture for the better, which at first can seem less comfortable, but once your body gets used to it, you’ll know it’s better. How? Well, for me, all of my hip and back problems gradually disappeared after switching to this chair.

No more strained neck and shoulder muscles from incorrect positioning, and no more weird back strain from a seat back tension that you just cant get right. My only gripe with this chair is that the seat could use a bit more cushioning.

And Im sure Im not the only one to figure this out, because Herman Miller now makes a logitech cobrand version of this chair, which, as far as I can tell, the only major difference is that it is cushioned better for long hours at the gaming PC.

Well, office people put in long hours too, so, perhaps eventually they will make that chair customizable, because for now it is all black, so if you want designy chair, you have to stick with the original.

I bought the Herman Miller Embody chair as a home office chair – I generally spend 5-10+ hours per day in front of my desk, and was looking for a chair that was more comfortable than your run-of-the-mill Office Depot chair.

The chair is aesthetically very pleasing – a good mix of 60’s / 70’s color palette with modern design. The way that the backing supports your back, even when leaning back or forward is great and also in general seems to provide really good lumbar support.

I can see myself using this chair for the entirety+ of its 12 year warranty, it is that comfortable. Now the downside – I chose the Balance fabric as reviews indicated it likely would have provided the most cushioning.

Generally the fabric is comfortable, but if one sits on it with a pair of shorts, the texture makes it a little uncomfortable after a while and the fabric leaves indentations on your skin. If wearing long bottoms, no problems whatsoever.

The other downside is that it’s a cat magnet (just mine maybe?) – I’ve had all 3 of my cats attempt to use it as a scratch pad when I left the chair out, so need to make sure the chair is tucked under the table, and backrest is covered with a towel.

Overall a fantastic purchase, though, as I can tell that my lower back soreness is already starting to dissipate, and the health aspect is what I really purchased this chair for.

RECENTLY BOUGHT 2 HERMAN MILLER AERON CHAIRS SIZE B ( AS PER THE DEALER). I HAD VISITED HERMAN MILLER BKC MUMBAI DEALER APPROXIMATELY 2-3 MONTHS BACK AND LIKED THEIR AERON CHAIR BUT AS THE CHAIR WAS VERY HIGHLY PRICED IT TOOK TWO MONTHS TO GET SOME DISCOUNT AND CLOSE THE DEAL.

WHEN I RECEIVED THE DELIVERY OF CHAIRS SOMETHING DIDN’T FEEL RIGHT, IT WAS NOT AS COMFORTABLE AS WHAT I FELT WHEN I VISITED THEIR SHOWROOM. SO I CALLED UP THE SALES GUY AND ASKED HIM IF HE HAS SEND ME THE SAME SIZE OF CHAIR AS WHAT I SAW AT THE SHOWROOM.

TO WHICH HE SAID YES THATS THE SIZE THAT I SAW SO I REQUESTED HIM THAT IT IS VERY UNCOMFORTABLE FOR MY HEIGHT MAN(ALMOST 6 FEET) AND I WOULD LIKE TO GO FOR A BIGGER SIZE OR SOME OTHER CHAIR COS IT DOESN’T FEEL THE SAME AND ITS LIKE ANY OTHER CHAIR THAT AVAILABLE FOR 20000-30000 RS IN MARKET AND I CLEARLY MENTIONED THAT I DON’T WANT REFUND BUT I WOULD LIKE TO GET WHAT I ACTUALLY THOUGHT I WAS BUYING.

AND ALSO FOR THE COLOUR I ASKED FOR BLACK COLOUR AND THEY SEND ME GREY COLOUR TO WHICH THE SALES PERSON SAID THAT THIS IS THE ONLY COLOUR AVAILABLE AND BLACK COLOUR CHAIRS NEEDS TO BE IMPORTED. THE DEALER GUYS COMPLETELY IGNORED MY PROBLEM AND JUST REVERTED THAT HERMAN MILLER DOESN’T HAVE ANY RETURN OR EXCHANGE POLICYI FEEL SO LOOTED AND DISSATISFIED.

PLEASE BE CAREFUL.