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Patient spent $800 on a gaming chair advertised as 'ergonomic.' Has sat in it for, conservatively, 14 hours per day across two years. The lumbar support is, technically, present. Patient's posture is now permanently forward-rolled. A physical therapist has asked about the chair. Patient has defended it. The therapist has stopped asking. The chair continues to be described, in patient's vocabulary, as 'investing in my health.'
Chronic. The chair has outlasted the therapist's patience.
None. A standing desk has been considered and rejected as 'a fad.'
Patients with Advanced Gaming-Chair Posture Investment typically present with some or all of the following:
Advanced Gaming-Chair Posture Investment belongs to the Institute's growing taxonomy of behaviors that real medicine has declined to name. It exists, roughly, at the intersection of internet culture, interpersonal friction, and whatever is happening in the lives of our patients. It is fictional and it is everywhere.
Under its Latin label Sella ludica structura collapsa, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
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