An area support surface seating system designed to optimize conditions that will avoid interrupting the healing procedure of pressure injuries in the area of the buttocks while an individual is placed in the seated position through the control of individual cells within the support surface to create a lower than capillary pressure site under an open wound and modulate external pressure over time on different regions of the buttocks to minimize secondary causes of pressure injuries. The area support surface also provides through its operation the means to restrain the progress of spinal deformities.