I have had an idea for a wonderful invention for the past 10 years.

I'm an occupational therapist, and a lot of my clients are women, who sit at computers all day.

They sit poorly, in stations that don't fit them, and get tendonitis in theirs hands, wrists, forearms, elbows, shoulders, neck, etc. As well as carpal tunnel syndrome.

After watching these poor women at their worksites, I started noticing that one common factor was a poor fit in their chair. Then I noticed men, sitting in these same chairs, and they seemed fine.

So I have designed the WOMAN'S OFFICE CHAIR.

(I have the licensing packet for prospective manufacturers in an adobe file... If you would like to see it, just give me an email addy, and I'll send it out to you.)

But, of course, I need to have as much hard data as possible to back up each aspect of my chair. Most are done, but one critical piece still eludes me....

My choice for the shape, and depth of the chair seat.

The unusual thing about the seat depth is that it is very narrow. (very comfy though) But my patent attorney says "comfy" isn't good enough. I need to have objective data to back it up.

The seat is about the same depth as the Kneeling chair:


http://digilander.libero.it/giambatorio/VARIER/rosso2.jpg


So I've been TRYING to find the inventors' original data on how they developed this size, and I'm getting nowhere


PLEASE, pretty please, how do I find it???

The names of the original developers of the BALANS CHAIR are:

PETER OPSVIK

and

SVEIN GUSRUD


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The original company that sold the chair was called WESTNOFA.


I've looked through google scholar. I've gone to the med school library here, and couldn't find anything. The people at the library said they could conduct a search for me, and charge me $80 per hour for doing it. (pretty pricey)


So, please, can you steer me in the right direction?

-or can you find the info?


I'll treat you to dinner, and take you to the hot springs the next time you're in Denver!


Thanks!