What type of chair do you use as a Reflexologist

[aloha]

Hi guys

I posted a thread in the business and marketing forum... but not much response so I am hoping I might get a better response in this subforum....

As a nearly practising Reflexologist (my exams are in May), I have been working on my case studies using a computer chair.

I would like to know if you use a "professional" chair or do you use a normal computer chair, saddle stool etc.. I get back ache with mine and am looking for a decent chair with good lumbar support.

Any advice gratefully received.

many thanks

Liz

xx

 

[SmokeLine]

Hi liz,
I too am doing my itec exams in may.At college we have swivel chairs with backs on them that adjust up and down for height comfort.When i started my case studies at home, i just got one from the argos catalogue.Its black swivel with height adjustment.At the start my shoulers used to ache but my tutor helped me correct my posture.I do think it's really important to have a good chair,breathe correctly(when i get tense i forget to!)and to sit straight.Y'know my tutor says she can sit on anything when doing reflexology but i can't so i know how frustrating it can be.I hope a few more people will respond to you,and maybe have some more ideas.
Best of luck in examM

 

[Kuro Yuki]

If people come to me then I have a normal dining chair I use, but i make sure I am as comfortable as my clients as no support for your back could turn into long term back problems.

However, if I'm visiting clients at their home, sometimes they don't have a suitable chair so I often sit on a sofa, and just make sure I keep my posture in mind during the treatment. I have thought about taking my own chair but it's too much hassle and too much to carry.

 

[discodaug]

Hello Lizzielou,

I use a lafuma folding chair which fits into the lafuma bag. It's light weight if you're planning on working mobile.

Wesam

 

[Megan S]

Hope to do reflexology this year, so interesting post

Barbara x

 

[Zane Peterson]

I am doing Itec Reflexology at the moment and I do the same as Wesam

Caz

 

[JDB]

Hi Liz

I've got a lafuma chair and find it much easier than a massage couch, much lighter and easier to move around, as I'm mobile. I found a sadle seat on ebay but most of the time I sit on a clients chair, as I find the saddle seats a bit uncomfortable after a while.

Hope all goes well with the exams, hard work but well worth it

Deannah

 

[dartthrower22]

Hi lizzielou,

Sorry I think I may have misled your thread , the chair I sit on is a folding Lafuma camping chair, it fits in the bag with my recliner.

Cheer

Wesam

 

[synisterkat]

I use a la fuma chair for the client to sit/recline in and I use any chair that is available to me.

In my therapy rooms I use a massage couch for the client to lie/recline on and I sit on a professional stool.

 

[Irish Girl]

I actually use a wooden padded stool, which came with my recliner chair. It's about the most comfortable chair I possess! Although it hasn't got a back, I find when I sit on it I naturally assume a good posture. I can sit on it all day!

 

[she loves spreadsheet]

Hi

I have a lafuma for clients to sit in, and a lafuma stool for myself, but I do find that I get some hip problems if I use it regularly.

I have since found a tiny fold-up kitchen step kind of arrangement, which I use a cushion with, and that means my eyes are about the same height as the client's feet, so I don't have to lean over. If cost about a fiver from a little cheap-y shop and it fits into my lafuma case.

When my knees are bad and I can't get down to the little stool (or up off it without going on all-4's!), I use the lafuma again. So swapping and changing is what seems to work for me!

Good luck with the exams

Lesley

 

[Ashlene Nicotine]

I use one of those director style chairs if clients come to the healing rooms and if I do a home visit, I just use one of the clients chairs or stools.

 

[Karla Reyna]

Hi,

I have 19 years experience as a Reflexologist & Tutor and have found the most comfortable chair for the practitioner to be a saddle stool as they ensure your correct posture. These aren't practical, though, if you are doing mobile visits to clients, just too much to carry! In this case, I use a ''fisherman's box'' from Argos! It is the ideal height for working with lafumas or foot-stools and they have 2 detachable trays which click onto the side to put your talc, oils, pens, etc. The carry strap enables it to be easily carried whilst carrying your own lafuma or foor-stool & leaves one hand free to open garden gates, etc.

Hope this helps.

Grahame

 

[dragnei]

Thanks guys - really helpful. I must confess I have never heard of a la fuma chair - will investigate!!

Thanks for all the good luck messages too - appreciated!

xx

 

[Uche]

Have you thought about sitting on a Gym ball ? I have been using one for the last year and find it really comfy.

If you want to try it make sure you get one that is small so that you can fit your knees under the LaFuma, Kirtsy do one that is smaller than most (I got mine at Argos).

The only downsides are the inevitable noise it makes when you get off it - always good for a laugh and the fact that I am so comfortable treatments often last a little longer than usual, no complaints from clients about that !

ta ra


Lou xxx

 

[Bexalicious]

And you're toning up your core muscles at the same time!

 

[Rwindshadow]

I have a lafuma and matching chair for visits and and padded redlining couch and saddle stool that has lumbar support in my clinic, gorgeous I love it

 

[B.Lieve]

I use a cheap computer chair from IKEA - Traktor. The chair can go quite low which is really good. A friend has the same chair and got her husband to cut some of the tube that goes down the middle so it could go even lower. As you can see it doesn't have a back so it may not work for you but I don't find myself leaning back during reflexology treatments so don't miss a back.

I don't often do mobile visits but have got a folding Lafuma chair which I could use although I'd actually forgotten about it until now. I've had some very uncomfortable times at other people's houses!

I like scoobylw's idea of a gym ball (for home, not mobile) and may well give that a go.

 

[Cecil]

Hi

If anyone has found a good chair I can use for reflexology please let me know - I'm working mobile and presently my clients have to sit on their couches and I use one of their dining chairs but its not ideal. Needs to be really, really cheap though. Any advice would be great.

Debsx

 

[Laodhradyn]

A computer chair is perfect and you can get them cheap at Argos......