Office Chairs for Back Pain

We are not going to promise that, and nobody honest will. What these chairs do is remove one common cause of discomfort: a seat that cannot be set up for the person in it. If there is a medical reason behind the pain, an assessment will get you further than a product page.

By what they adjust, not by what the marketing says. 21 chairs from £21, picked for adjustable lumbar support, independent seat and back angles, and posture mechanisms people actually use, plus kneeling and sit-stand stools for a change of position.

Because backs curve in different places. A fixed lumbar pad supports the average spine, which means it sits slightly wrong for most people and badly wrong for some. Being able to move the support to where your own curve is, is the difference between a chair that helps and one that nags.

Set it up, properly, before deciding anything. Seat height so feet are flat and knees are at about a right angle. Backrest height so the lumbar meets the small of your back. Tilt tension so the chair supports you leaning back without launching you. Most chairs blamed for back pain were never adjusted.

Changing position. A height adjustable desk, a footrest if the desk cannot come down far enough, and getting up now and again do more than any single chair. Our sit-stand collection covers the desks.

By hand, against what each product's own specification actually says rather than by a rule that guesses from the name. There are 21 listings in it at the moment, from £21. It is a curated selection rather than an automatic one, so if you think something obvious is missing, tell us and we will look.

Standard delivery is free on everything, and most of it lands inside a week. Express delivery is offered on much of the range, priced per item on the product page, and gets an order to you within two working days if you place it before 5pm. Twelve of the 21 products here are made to order rather than stocked, and those take 10 to 15 working days. The product page says which, and shows the date it will arrive by before you pay.

Yes, on everything here. The crew deliver it, build it, put it where you want it and take the packaging away. Installs usually happen within about 10 working days, and the team agree the day with you rather than simply turning up.

Each product carries the manufacturer's warranty and the period is stated on that product's page, often broken down by part: the structure for one length of time, the mechanism and the fabric for another. If something fails inside the warranty, report it from your order page and we deal with the manufacturer for you.

Eighteen of the 21 products in this collection have a 3D model on the page rather than only photographs. The viewer spins the actual model, and changing a colour or a size on the page changes the model with it, which is worth doing before committing a whole room to a finish.

On stocked items, yes: tell us within 14 days of receiving them and raise it from your order page, with the goods unused and back in their packaging. Most of this range is made to order, though, and made-to-order goods cannot be cancelled once acknowledged or returned because you have changed your mind. Each product page says which it is before you buy.