As the title suggested, we’ve reached the good part, what we’re all here for, some of us after a really swift act of scrolling!

I will give you a summary of what was above: ergonomic chairs good, neck pain bad. I can’t promise you that using these 10 chairs below will save all of your 99 problems, but at least you will know neck pain won’t be one of them… Possibly purchase budget as well – since I included in the list all kinds of ergonomic chairs from low-end to high-end – to turn your frown upside down at the sight of the figures.

Well, let’s dig in.

We start off the list with one of the most famous ergonomic chairs, the Freedom by Humanscale. This Humanscale’s chair is one of those top end office chairs that is actually worth your money – if you’re rich enough to buy it of course.

Created by the famed and revered designer Niels Diffrient, it’s beautifully designed with high-end materials, especially in the back functions that can be vertically adjusted easily and freely (no puns intended) to accommodate most body heights and builds.

Its built-in lumbar support is firm while the entire backrest curves inward at the lower-back, providing great support for the neck. When you recline your head, it will still face forward, instead of upward like most chairs, due the headrest being designed to have an upright position always.

Thus, your whole head weight is supported when you’re trying to both relax in a back leaning position and still read or view something on a monitor. However, that’s not to say it can’t be adjusted to be slightly reclined to your likings either.

The gel armrests are creative additions and they recline with the back which helps keep your arms comfortable, however these can be adjusted as well if you want to rest your arms on level with the keyboard stand. As a whole, this is a true ergonomic chair that can be crafted and adjusted in any way to your needs. Its great recline features makes it a fantastic chair for those who don’t want (or is suffering) from back and neck pain. Again, top end, so expensive.

Built-in, reclining mechanism

Adjustable backrest

Adjustable headrest

Gel seat

This is another chair that is extremely adjustable, and the price is quite lax too, even compared to the average ergonomic chairs.

The contoured seat cushion is one of its strongest aspects, it’s made of premium fabric and feels nice to sit on, pillow-like yet firm, so your butt doesn’t fall into it, which prevents tailbone pain.

The multifunction mechanism makes the back angle adjustable relative to the seat, tilted or locked, coupled with the cool, breathable mesh makes for a satisfying experience leaning… back. The whole chair has a good height adjustment system that allows high limits, and it suits most individuals who are fairly shorter or taller than 6’.

This Alera Elusion chair comes with no headrests – however, one can be easily installed for about $20.

With the adjustable back angle, you could have your skull hitting the base of the top of the seat if needed, and thus the inclusion of a headrest will work beautifully to support your neck. The assembling is fairly easy too. As a whole, I would recommend this chair for almost anyone, from gamers to vloggers to office workers, just for the tasty price to adjustment level ratio.

It’s actually currently the chair I’m sitting on while writing this.

Highly adjustable multifunction mechanism

Cool high mesh back

Ergonomic contoured seat cushion with premium fabric upholstery and waterfall edge

Very good ergonomic chair with decent price. Its built-in headrest can be adjusted nicely in any angle and height. With the pivot points behind allowing for some nice supports to the neck, reducing muscle pain around it, no matter if the headrest is reclined into a forward position or back slightly to your working needs.

With its sturdy carpet casters, this Staples office chair’s seat can support up to 250 pounds a full work day, with reclining resistance and adjustable lumbar support mechanism and armrests.

It gives a great leaning experience for both large and small built people, and even if you’re too tall or too short, the said awesome headrest can be adjusted or uninstalled entirely to accommodate. The technical mesh back creates a nice and cool airflow to combat the heat as well.

Easy to assemble, and a highly adjustable task chair, this Staples Hyken beauty is super comfy and as ergonomic as any – if not more! Perfect for “involuntarily” rebellious sleepers.

Technical mesh breathable seat and back

Adjustable height, tilt, tilt tension, arms, and lumbar support

Unlike its best selling fabric chair counterpart, this one flies very low under the radar. But it’s more expensive, so it’s better.

Just kidding. It’s better for your neck, however. The former doesn’t necessarily have a bad neck support, just that this one is much better in that aspect, with the optional headrest and all that jazz. Along with the patented LiveBack technology, the chair gives us a very convenient system that allows the back of the chair to mimic the movements of our spine, and thus both correcting our postures and supporting our weights no matter if we’re leaning back or not, in turns preventing back pain. The armrests are highly adjustable and they telescope in and out, move both forward and backward, or up and down to our needs – very similar to the Freedom chair above, extremely suitable for office workaholics.

The seat depth and height (pneumatic) adjustment for this version of the Steelcase Leap is almost picture perfect.

With exceptionally wide range of adjustments, and well tried and tested weight limits, it can deliver full support for all body shapes and sizes, so you can get it to fit you even if it does look bigger or smaller than your body at first. Adding that to a fantastic, optional headrest that also has a wide range of adjustments (vertically up to 6’, and designed to stay upright with some recline resistance) your heads weight is supported at all times, and as a whole, your body is not at any time tempted to break out of the likened posture either.

A plus, the chair is really pretty too, expected of a high end ergonomic chair, satisfying both your mental and physical comfort.

Live Back technology mimics movements of the spine

High range of motion of recline and elevated leg positions

Highly adjustable armrests

98% recyclable by weight and made of up to 30% recycled content

Finally, we’ve reached a Herman Miller Aeron, one of the most famous ergonomic brands for office chairs. Most ergonomic task chairs are pretty tough on your wallet, and this one is no different.

However, it’s worth your money (looking at you, rich dudes). The chair comes with 3 sizes, but that’s not to say it can’t fit body types larger or smaller than advertised. With the unique breathable Pellicle suspension embodied in a high, wide and contoured design, the back of the chair contains a system – similar to, but better technically than those of average mesh chairs – which allows dissipation of the body heat that builds up while you work, yet provides a very firm and stable support especially for your lower spine.

The front edge of the seat is designed to take pressure off your thighs, keeping the blood flowing and circulating, while the armrests slope slightly down in the back for a more comfortable support.

The lumbar support kit adjusts vertically to provide back support for a wide range of 4 inches, employing a natural curve onto your mid back and lower region, combating back pain.

The very unique patented tilt mechanism called Kinemat©, that comes with the chair, offers a smooth, tilt system that have all of your body, from neck to legs, recline and pivot in a natural posture all the time.

This is especially good for your neck, because the pressure is spread around and your head weight is partly supported by other components on the chair. As ergonomic as it gets.

Patented Kinemat® tilt mechanism

Unique breathable Pellicle suspension

Waterfall front edge

94% recyclable

Back to lower priced ergonomic chairs, starting with this Office Star type. Office Star has a lot of terrific low-end chairs, but in my opinion this one is easily the best of them, mostly in the way it’s designed to give the most comfort to your backside. Highly adjustable, included in it a ratchet back height adjustment system that will give the best and most suitable reclining experience to your likings and body size, coupled with one touch pneumatic seat height adjustment systems, which allows you to release pressure off your thighs or – when you want to – just dangle your feet for fun while relaxing more easily.

The multi function control gives your body freedom of movement, while the contour moulded seat and back with built in lumbar support holds it in a corrected posture, and the padding is dense enough to last for long working hours each day for a long period of time, yet comfortable enough to tempt a nap mid-work.

The arm rests can be adjusted to a decent range to your working needs, with nice PU pads. I would say this is one of those classic ergonomic chairs intended to give your backside the best and most satisfying experience physically first and foremost. However, the chair being so good at that, your neck and especially the lower neck will gain from its focused initial strength as well.

Contour molded seat and back with built in lumbar support

Ratchet back height adjustment

One touch pneumatic seat height adjustment

Multi function control

Another ergonomic chair with relatively decent price for the average internet lurkers.

Office Factor is one of the better brands for low-end ergonomic executive chairs, they have chairs with price ranging from the higher 100s to lower 800s – and more to come!

This one chair… It sits just right in the middle, but is extremely quality for what it costs, especially in the aspect that suits the purpose of this article: neck support. It’s a highly adjustable one, with the seat and lumbar support ready to be adjusted in any direction and angle depending on your needs and body shape overall.

The recline mechanism and the padding for the backside and seat are so well combined that you can easily have a great time leaning back without adjusting much, and the chair itself is stable enough to withstand even an average kid’s random rampage.

However, when you need to adjust, the back and the seat are synchronized together, so you might need to take notice of that. There’s also a multi locking system that allows you to lock the recline when you’re in a preferred position, and it’s not too locked so that you can’t get the desired comfort without needing to adjust again, as there’s still a small flexy space in the design.

The headrest is one the better features for this chair, if you’ve already gotten others to fit your body.

It’s soft and has an impressively higher range of adjustments than your run of the mill removable headrests, and it also has a height lock system that gets you into sleeping mode more comfortably and not have your neck slipping down as time goes around your sleepy thoughts.

There are 3 angles for it that can be switched from one to another easily with a bit of pressure, allowing for much more flexibility. The armrests are a bit tricky and they require some adjustments in the assembling process to get it to your likings as the adjusting range for it isn’t as wide as other components.

Extremely adjustable arms, lumbar support, seat

Adjustable mesh headrest on back seat slider

Adjustable seat depth lock mechanism

One of the easiest ergonomic chairs to assemble – and I’m not exaggerating!

It comes with an office guide from VIVA OFFICE that contains clear crafting directions, ELI5 details about the role of each components and whatnot, even average Joe can dig it. The chair has a high mesh back to keep you from sweating like a pig while maintaining a proper posture, and it’s also designed in such a way that you won’t get lined marks on your back if you lean against it for too long either. Paddle control mechanism allows for some rangy angle adjustments, as well as lock, height and tilt adjustments for the seat and back, much needed for your comfort no matter your build.

Another thing this chair has over others is its durability, shown in its high quality Nylon base and casters.

On top of its technical flavours, the chair sports a really modern artsy look to it, or should I say quirkily minimalistic (that’s not a word combination – you should say that in real life though!), with curves and bends all over, so for the eye candy lovers out there you might want to have a check. The built-in headrest is adjustable up and down, however not forward and backward, so one can say that it’s the firm and stable type which is most suitable for long hours of continuous work.

On the outside it’s extremely well designed, with a beautiful inward curve shape like the rest of the chair that covers a larger area in the back of your head, which encourages its users to recline against it, get supported and ease off some pressure.

Contemporary mesh high back

Paddle control mechanism allows back angle adjustment, back tilt lock and seat hight adjustment

Tilt tension control and synchro tilt mechanism

Mesh seat and premium fabric upholstery

Another chair with… wait, no, we’re back with expensive chairs again. Well, ~$600 might be expensive for…those like me. But, it might just be well worth it for some, if not many. This Ergohuman type is up there as one of the most flexible in adjustability, with a total of eight ergonomic adjustments for maximum comfort all day ranging from terrific height adjustments with high limits to seat tension depth for better recline. All of the controls are so easy to reach and use, that you can figure out the best sitting position in less than a minute. Pneumatic cylinder raises and lowers the chair quickly to your needs, as quick as the windy air that travels through the mesh back to keep you cool and collected under deadlines.

The headrest is extremely comfy, however they can’t be adjusted forward and back, which is a big missed opportunity to raise the adjustment variety level. However, my advice would be positioning it to hit your neck just right, the padding around the top curves of the headrest feels nice and comfy enough that it can give you quite a bit comfort while also supporting your head whenever you lean back.

Back angle adjustment

Pneumatic cylinder

Adjustable headrest, seat depth

Contoured, height adjustable lumbar support

Synchro-tilt mechanism

Another Herman Miller chair to close up the list. I feel like this not being in a best of list is tragedy in and of itself, because the Embody chair is just simply one of – if not the best – ergonomic chair there is.

Designed by Bill Stumpf, the original creator for the Aeron chair, the award winning Embody is a highly adjustable chair with up to six ergonomic features that have you 24/7 in a recommended correct posture, that was taken into account seriously by scientists and engineers during the producing process, and is most famous for preventing and reducing back pain.

The amazing patented BackFit adjustment system positions the backrest in line with your spine’s natural curve, it expands and contracts independently of the base which is something not many ergonomic chairs have. It’s made so that when you move in the chair your head remains properly aligned to your computer display, and this is especially good for your neck as well since you don’t need to adjust too much to get a working recline and have your head weight supported along with your back. As a plus to being absolutely brilliant, it also looks cool as hell!

The tilt technology of the chair provides great support to your thighs, sitting bones and thorax, with the back and seat embodied in skin-like textile covering, which allows air to circulate and keep you cool no matter how long you sit. You’ve got a perfect cocktail of ergonomics.

The armrests are other brilliant features the Embody chair has. They have a wide range of upward and downward adjustments and the controls are easy to reach, which is a strong point. The height adjustment is flexible to the max and can be tweaked to fit any human build. The durability of the chair is unquestionable, made from more than up to par high-end materials that can withstand not only kids’ chaos, but also the test of time itself. The design also allows for a swift cleaning and the chair doesn’t easily get dusty.

I would say its only disadvantage is that it’s worth around $1500, but for those who’s willing to spend (eye contact, rich dudes, eye contact) it’s simply one of the very best purchase decisions you will have ever made. It’s such an effortlessly supportive chair with an advanced recline system and an amazingly beautiful design that you would feel like you’re sitting on a rainbow with unicorn neighs in hearing distance. Suddenly working doesn’t feel as bored.

Of course, for such an expensive chair – and as a code for any expensive chair – try it on first to see if you’ve got package for rainbows and unicorns or just the rainbows.