December 17, 2020
Somehow, Every Ergonomist Gets Sitting Wrong
The field of ergonomics hasn’t changed their approach and recommendations for chairs in many, many…
September 14, 2020
Two Masks are Better Than One
In these COVID timesIt is so hard to mask upWithout losing face Masks and COVID-19.…
May 27, 2020
Post COVID-19 Recovery
The ability of individual States to decide policy for themselves is a hallmark of the…
April 24, 2020
Squatting in the 21 Century
We force kids to abandon squatting so as adults, the position is nearly impossible and…
April 22, 2020
COVID-19: Ventilators
A friend told me of this story: An older man contracted COVID-19 and became quite…
April 18, 2020
COVID-19: Exercise
Every physician knows that exercise is the universal preventative and treatment for almost every chronic…
February 14, 2020
You sit still, you get old
You sit still, you get old We often hear from folks who want to…
January 3, 2020
Obesity and Health: The roles of diet and activity
This week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine blandly recounts this stunning conclusion:…
December 19, 2019
The limits of willpower (and how to hack them)
Willpower is a concept that we take for granted, because it seems obvious: an impulse…
November 10, 2019
How many steps?
Tracking your steps? Add in your fidgets. How many steps do you take in…
October 16, 2019
Disrupting the furniture landscape… or forging a new one?
One marker for a disruptive technology is that those pushing the old technology won’t “get…
September 29, 2019
Head Horns (Pt. 2)
Image Source: The Telegraph Recently, news emerged about a troubling finding: young people growing a…
September 11, 2019
Head Horns? (Pt. 1)
Image Source: The Telegraph Recently, news emerged about a troubling finding: young people growing a…
June 2, 2019
Your personal posture coach
“This is supposed to make my posture better, isn’t it?” Typically, this is the very…
March 23, 2019
Can active sitting relieve acute back pain
Can active sitting relieve acute back pain? This is a hot topic here at QOR360.…
February 4, 2019
Lumbar Support
Sounds great, doesn’t it? A little scientific, even medical (“lumbar” from the Latin lumbus, meaning…
January 7, 2019
Movement is Not Optional
Born to Move Sitting all day seems like a bad idea, but we are now…
May 15, 2018
Reshaping Sitting
Active sitting at a fine furniture convention – we were warned this might not be…