The disabilities usually mentioned in research and legal documents are reduced mobility and visual or auditory impairments.
[13] Low back pain is a condition that affects a large part of the general United States population at some point in life.
In the U.S., acute low back pain (also called lumbago) is the fifth most common reason for all physician visits.
This, combined with the fact that reduced ability to sit is not mentioned in research or anti-discrimination laws, makes it even harder for people to live with this kind of impairment.
The availability of benches or other devices where one may lie down may be a critical factor that determines whether a means of transportation or a public building is usable or not for many people with this form of disability.
Accommodations for people who have a sitting disability are being enforced as Western nations integrate universal design into their societies.
People with this condition are often totally disabled in that there are few jobs in which a person is able to lie down, and not required to stand or sit for extended periods of time.
[21] The American college radio DJ Laurie Cohen has neuropathy in her pelvis after she was rear ended in a car accident.