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Comfortable seating
Are you sitting comfortably...
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Rise and recline armchairs
Fireside chairs and footstools
Chair raisers
Alternative seating
Suppliers of comfortable armchairs and seating aids. Clicking on a highlighted name will open their showcase page in a new window:
1st Call Mobility
Adjustamatic
BaKare Beds
The Bambach Saddle
Seat Company
Care-Knight
Careflex
Camelot Furniture
Drive Medical
Gerald Simonds
Heritage Homecare
JCM Seating Solutions
Mangar International
- lifting cushion and leg support
Molift
Sherborne Upholstery
SupaSupport - pressure
relief cushion
Promedics
Theraposture
Wilcare Wales
Rise and recline armchairs and sofas
There
are various ways to make sure that you can an enjoy a comfortable evening
sitting to watch TV, read a book, or chat with friends.
A chair or sofa with built-in recliner mechanism, such as the leather armchair shown on the right from Sherborne Upholstery, means that you can raise your legs to the height that suits you best.
If
you find it a struggle to get up from your armchair, then a powered rise
and recliner can make it very much easier. Available with one or two motors,
they allow you to recline the back and raise the leg rest - to a full
sleeping position if you wish - and when you want to get up, a powered
lift gently eases you back towards a standing position.
There is a wide range of models available, to suit all sizes of user. Shown left is Adjustamatic's rise and recliner, which also incorporates a massage unit, to help ease muscles and joints, and improve circulation.
Footstools and fireside chairs
More
low tech solutions are also available! An adjustable foot stool can be
used flat or angled, to position your legs as comfortably as possible.
This traditional style leg-rest stool is from Sherborne Upholstery.
A traditional fireside chair, such as this one from Drive Medical, right, with its high winged back, firm armrests and supportive seat - which is a bit higher than an easychair - can be much easier to get out of.
Chair raisers
If
you want some assistance that you can take with you wherever you go, on
holiday or visiting friends, perhaps, a portable aid such as Keep Able's
Uplift (left) could be useful, as it gently helps you up into a standing
position.
And
if you have a favourite chair which is just too low to be easily mananged,
leg raisers (right) can be a solution.
They hold each leg firmly, and give an extra two to four inches of height to the chair seat - which could make all the difference to rising from it unaided.
Alternative
seating
If the conventional sitting position provided by armchairs and sofas doesn't suit you, there are radically different alternatives that you can try.
A
height adjustable kneeling chair, such as this one on the left, aligns
the spine correctly, relieving stress and discomfort. Many people with
back trouble who have to sit for long periods find this more agreeable.
Alternatively, a saddle seat, inspired as the name suggests, by the shape of a horse-riding saddle, positions the pelvis correctly so that the spine is naturally held in the stree-free 'S' shape. Once again, for anyone sitting for long periods, this style of seat can help by relieving stress on muscles, joints and ligaments.