What is the most comfortable height for your desk and chair?
How hard should the mattress be, how high should the pillow be, and how high should the desk and chair be for the most comfortable working conditions?
The reporter learned that the hospital's orthopedics team recently opened China's first personalized spine health measurement clinic, which can provide personalized plans based on the patient's sleeping habits, work and study scenarios, spinal lesions, etc. based on diagnosis.
A 35-year-old patient with "lumbar protrusion" could not straighten his waist and had numbness in his lower limbs. He was diagnosed with lumbar disc herniation. The doctor performed minimally invasive surgery on him and reminded him: "Surgery is not a one-time solution. You still need to take good care of your spine and change your lifestyle."
"The longer you sit for a long time, the more likely you are to suffer from this disease. Nowadays, the trend of younger patients with lumbar herniation in outpatient clinics is very obvious." In clinical practice, we often see that some 30-year-old people have a "waist age" of 50 years old. After examination, it is found that the lumbar spine has Early degeneration or intervertebral disc herniation. "Office workers tend to sit with their shoulders shrugged, chest held, and body leaning forward, which increases the burden on the spine, especially the lumbar spine. Muscles are easily strained if they remain in one position for a long time. All the weight of the upper body is pressed on the vertebrae, and the intervertebral discs As the stress increases, the wear becomes more severe.”
At the spine health personalized measurement clinic, the doctor measured the patient's spine-related data. After filling in the patient's height, weight, sleep preference and other data, the doctor wrapped a special measurement belt around his waist and affixed a marking device. It only took 2 minutes to take a set of sitting and standing photos, and through background AI data learning, an exclusive health report was generated.
The report shows that for patients, the optimal height of a standing desk is 110 cm, the optimal height of a sitting desk is 71.5 cm, and the optimal height of a chair is 40.8 cm. The recommended sleeping mattress is "standard on the firmer side" and also provides A series of data including optimal pillow height for back sleepers and side sleepers.
Some people say that "low back pain requires sleeping on a hard bed." To this, a doctor said: "The harder the bed, the better it is for the spine. Different mattresses are suitable for different people. The normal physiological structure of the human spine is S-shaped when viewed from the side. If you sleep on a bed that is too hard, it will not match the normal curve of the human spine and your waist will not be supported. At the same time, a bed that is too hard will have an impact on the protruding bones and joints of the body. Sleeping on a bed that is too hard will cause the spine to become stiff. It’s quite a tense state and cannot achieve the desired relaxing effect.”
Over the years, the concept of spinal health management has been continuously promoted to prevent patients from going to the stage of surgery. However, surgical patients still need health management after surgery to reduce the recurrence of disease.
"Currently, most of the patients who come to our outpatient clinic for experience measurement are people who already have spinal pain. Spinal health requires professional management and products must be customized. This concept is not yet accepted by many people, but I believe it is a way to delay The key to the onset of spinal diseases." He further stated that in the future, the team will also cooperate with relevant companies in industry, academia and medical research to develop personalized customized products that are more in line with the medical concept of spinal health and better serve people's spinal health.
