Height-adjustable Desks vs Traditional Tesks

A height-adjustable desk or a Standing Desk can be easily elevated to suit the needs of people of varying heights, shapes, and sizes. In other words, it can be adjusted according to individual requirements. The desk adjusts to suit you. However, when you use a traditional desk, the onus of adjustment falls on you; It simply follows the ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach. This outdated approach means that a specific height adjustable chair is required. With a standing desk, it adapts to your needs at the touch of a button. 

Using a height-adjustable desk, you can easily counteract the slouch posture and develop the perfect posture for your back and shoulder health. The ergonomic design cleverly enables you to keep the elbows bent at 90° and in alignment with the keyboard – essential for correct posture. Consequently, your spine acquires the perfect shape while the neck and shoulders are afforded the space required to adopt a relaxed position. Traditional desks cannot offer the same flexibility and can never be customised to suit you. Wave goodbye to the neck tension, spinal discomfort and  visible hunch associated with traditional desking. 

Apart from neck and spinal discomfort, traditional desks are equally associated with pain in the wrists and arms, numbness, tingling, and throbbing. Traditional desks tend not to boast the same level of ergonomic design as the standing desk. In many cases, people develop chronic back pain, shoulder and neck pain and associated migraines. Of note, is the fact that such problems are rarely recorded by users of height-adjustable desks.

Height-Adjustable Standing Desks offer the option of switching from sitting to standing at regular intervals, thereby balancing the sit-stand ratio and encouraging you to be more active during your working day while counteracting the negative effects of a sedentary work life, such as weight gain, cardiac disease, diabetes and high blood pressure. Although height-adjustment might seem unremarkable, it is guaranteed to keep