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Working long hours in a standing position can often be done without strain on your lower limbs and back, but it can also lead to discomfort in the muscles and joints of your lower limbs, as well as symptoms in your hips and back. Common issues include pain in the small joints of the lower limbs, swelling, stiffness in the ankles and knees, muscle tightness, and fatigue or tension in the glutes and lower back. These symptoms are often the result of prolonged standing that requires static muscle effort.

Discover tips for relieving and preventing lower limb pain.

If you’re trying to find a solution to bring variation to your positions during your day at the office and to make standing work more pleasant, you’ve probably come across standing mats and different kinds of boards. There are lots of options for standing and antifatigue mats on the market and also more and more different kinds of balance boards that are suitable for standing work. Because Gymba board is in its own league what comes to standing desk balance boards, we’ll publish later on an article concentrating to the differences between Gymba board and other balance boards. But this article however is focusing comparing Gymba board and standing mats providing also a chart of their features.