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Effect of Dynamic Sitting on Pain Development - Part 2
Led by University of Applied Sciences for Health Professions Upper Austria · Updated on 2025-09-29
20
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
98 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
As a follow-up project to the Dyn-Sit-Pain study, this research aims to investigate the overall health as well as the physical and mental well-being through dynamic office chairs. The development of an innovative dynamic office chair concept will be professionally and scientifically supported, and the developed prototypes will be examined within the framework of usability studies.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Effect of Dynamic Sitting on Pain Development - Part 2
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Signed informed consent
- Aged between 18 and 65 years
- Classified as pain developers (e.g., a 10 mm increase in pain on a 100 mm visual analogue scale)
- Employed as an office worker
- Working more than 25 hours per week
- Sufficient German language skills (minimum B2 level)
- Body height of at least 160 cm
- Electrically or manually height-adjustable table at main workstation
You will not qualify if you...
- Physical or mental limitations that make dynamic sitting or chair use difficult (e.g., wheelchair users, vestibular dysfunction)
- Pregnancy
- Sitting less than 20 hours per week at the main workplace
- Body weight over 110 kg and height over 195 cm
- Regular therapy or medication for pain or medication affecting pain perception (e.g., certain psychotropic drugs)
- Office chair incompatible with the swivel mechanism prototype
- Presence of chronic diseases influencing pain perception (e.g., chronic kidney disease, fibromyalgia, neuropathy, chronic fatigue syndrome)
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
University of Applied Sciences for Health Professions Upper Austria
Linz, Upper Austria, Austria, 4020
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
CROSSOVER
Primary Purpose
PREVENTION
Number of Arms
4
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