ADEQUACY ANALYSIS OF SCHOOL CHAIR MEASUREMENTS ACCORDING TO THE ANTHROPOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS

Vse več ljudi se sooča s poškodbami hrbtenice. Otroci niso izjema in starost pri kateri že tožijo za bolečinami v hrbtu je vedno nižja. Čeprav obstajajo standardi za oblikovanje šolskih stolov in se jih oblikovalci držijo, ostaja problem zagotoviti ustrezen stol za posameznega učenca glede na njegove antropometrične značilnosti. V diplomskem delu smo primerjali antropometrične značilnosti ljubljanskih otrok z otroki, ki obiskujejo Osnovno šolo Cvetka Golarja. Zbrane meritve telesne višine učencev smo primerjali z velikostjo stolov, ki jih uporabljajo. Poiskali smo vzroke za težave s hrbtenico, ki lahko prizadanejo otroke. Prikazali smo rešitve, ki bodo pripomogle k bolj kakovostnemu sedenju otrok in ne bodo preveč posegale v šolski proračun.More and more people are dealing with back injuries. Children are no exception and the age at which they start complaining about back pain is getting lower. Although there are standards for designing school chairs and designers do take them into account, the problem in providing the right chair for an individual pupil, according to his anthropometric characteristics, remains. In this dissertation we compared anthropometric characteristics of children in Ljubljana with the pupils in Primary school of Cvetko Golar. We compared gathered measurements of body height from the children to chair sizes that they are using. We found causes of back problems that children could have. We showed solutions, that will benefit in child\u27s seating, with the least intervention to the school budget