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Eliminate back pain with the Swopper chair that promotes active sitting Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

I've tried several active sitting products over the years, and I know quite a bit about back pain as well. Let me share with you why this chair could be the single most important investment you'll ever make in protecting the health of your back and eliminating back pain for the rest of your life. But, before we get started, let me remind you that this is an unpaid, unsolicited product review as are all my product reviews. The manufacturer of the Swopper chair isn't even aware that I'm doing this review. I did not get a free chair or any compensation.

When you're sitting on the Swopper, you're engaged in active sitting. You are forced to hold up your own back and to assume good posture in this chair, whether you want to or not. Failure to hold your back up will mean you just fall off the chair. If you're going to stay in this chair, you're going to engage those muscles. Now this is not necessarily an easy thing for people to do at first. In fact, people who've been sitting in traditional office chairs or what I call "lazy chairs," will find it exhausting to sit on the Swopper. They may only be able to sit on it for one minute.

But here's the most important part: if you're like most people, your lower back pain will either be reduced or eliminated from this active sitting exercise. And by the way, this occurs even if you've had a surgeon diagnose you with a physical defect in your spine. Many times, spinal and lower back pains are actually misdiagnosed, and often doctors can take an X-ray or an MRI and even show you something that looks like a physical defect. They then tell you "Look! See here, there's this gap or here's this thing sideways... and that's your pain right there!

Now, with all of that said, the Swopper is, in my experience, the very best chair that I've ever tried for training the back and engaging in active sitting. It is constructed of high quality materials, made with robust German engineering, of which I'm a great admirer. This is not some cheap plastic chair. And it better not be since it costs about $500! But let's talk about that for just a moment. I've seen lazy chairs priced as much as $1,000. They have all these hydraulics and cushions and backs and other features, but really all they do is allow you to sit in a lazy way with greater comfort.

The Swopper is the only active sitting chair I'm recommending since I've used it for several months and I've seen the quality of construction -- it is a high quality chair that looks virtually unbreakable. My one complaint is that the chair is a bit hard. It's hard on your sitting bones and may take a bit of getting used to, especially if you've been sitting in luxury chairs. But, even though you might feel like you're roughing it for a time, in the end the investment will be well worth it.

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