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From: ecl@mtgzy.UUCP (e.c.leeper)
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Subject: Re: Balans Chairs
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Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 20:37:37 EST
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> GET A _REAL_ BALANS CHAIR!  GET A _REAL_ BALANS CHAIR!
> For one thing, the copies are usually stiffer (less flexible) than the
> REAL ones.  This might seem safer when you sit down on it, and compare
> it to the wabbly feel of the original Balans chair.  But all those
> little motions are providing the exercise that your back needs, and
> encouraging your knees to tolerate the extra stretch.

Well, yes and no.  If you have a bad back and need the exercise, yes.  But
if your back is in reasonable shape, and your bank account isn't, the cheap
imitations are *still* better than a regular chair.  We have a cheap imitation
at the terminal at home and I have a real Balans chair at work.  Both are
much better than "real" chairs.  (My supervisor offered me a fancy terminal at
work.  I told him I wanted a Balans chair instead.  While we were negotiating
on just how much I could spend, I found one just sitting around in another
department because the person who got *his* supervisor to buy it left and no
one wanted it.  Except to laugh at.  The one problem with the Balans chair is
that *everyone* who comes into your office wants to try it.)

> By the way, there are models (including, I believe, one BY Balans)
> that have one shinpad rather than the two on the original.  It is
> impossible to settle onto this gracefully.

I have the one shinpad model at work.  In a skirt it's tricky; in pants you
just walk up behind it, swing one leg around and onto the pad, then kneel
forward and swing the other leg around.

I find it's easier to reach shelves from this also.  I just rise up on my knees
to get down the manuals that I would have to stand up for from a "real" chair.


					Evelyn C. Leeper
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