Any experience with ergonomic guitar straps?

[Huggy Love]

With a bad disc and being a guitar OG I've been considering alternatives when playing my solidbody because I feel it on my left side after a while, shoulder & lower back. Aside from just sitting down to play, I've been looking at these ergo straps. Anybody here have any experience with them? I see 3 brands on the market.
http://www.slingerstraps.com/harness-strap-guitar-strap.html
http://www.darestrap.com/guitar.html
http://www.gruvgear.com/duostrap-signature

Gotta admit they look pretty stupid to me, but at the risk of looking like a nerd.......

.......I might give one a shot to keep playing upright with the axe. Hell when I'm in my 90's maybe they'll have a bracket to attach a PRS to a "walker". (Don't forget the tennis balls on the front so I can glide across the stage.)

Yes, yes, I know, the duo and harness straps really do look like you should be wearing a helmet or a hard hat with them, but I'm not too proud. A wise man once said....."a man's gotta know his limitations".

 

[Deleted member 2284]

No experience - but I'd go with the dweebiest, the slingerstrap. That's the only one that seems to distribute the weight to the waist/hips as well as shoulders. That's definitely what I'd go with.

They do look a bit nerdy, I can see that. I'm immediately thinking this could be a DIY leatherwork project to whip out something cooler. Like a gunslinger belt

 

[László]

The leather Gruvgear one looks the most comfortable and least dweebish to me. If your back is bad, looking a bit nerdy isn't anything to worry about.

 

[Boogie]

If it works, who cares? Jump on stage wearing only a chartreuse tiger print thong and I guarantee no one will notice the guitar strap.

 

[bodia]

The leather Gruvgear one looks the most comfortable and least dweebish to me. If your back is bad, looking a bit nerdy isn't anything to worry about.

I agree that this one looks the best, but the ones that go around your waist would probably be better. I say that having two herniated discs myself, L4/L5 and S1. I would think that the Gruvgear would still put the strain on your lower back since all of the weight is around your shoulders. Anything that goes around your waist would relieve some of that weight from your lower back. Of course, that is assuming that your probs are lower back related.

If it works, who cares? Jump on stage wearing only a chartreuse tiger print thong and I guarantee no one will notice the guitar strap.

A huge plus one on this!

 

[Huggy Love]

If it works, who cares? Jump on stage wearing only a chartreuse tiger print thong and I guarantee no one will notice the guitar strap.

A huge plus one on this!

Only if I get to coordinate it with a TuTu..................hey, it worked for Alice Bowie.

 

[Mixstar]

I'd spend my money on a nice comfy stool and sit down.