Active Sitting November 25, 2023 More on the Perils of Passive SittingA research paper published last month is the definitive summary of the many harms that… Turner Osler 0 Post Views: 10 Love0
Wellness October 19, 2023 Breaks From Sitting: Now we know how often and how longWe all sit far more than is good for us.1 And by now the physiology… Turner Osler 0 Post Views: 30 Love0
Medical September 21, 2023 Passive Sitting Is Associated With DementiaPassively sitting supported by “ergonomic” chairs has been associated with a host of health problems:… Turner Osler 0 Post Views: 52 Love0
Wellness September 5, 2023 How to Add 3,000 Steps to Your Day Without Getting Up From Your (Active) ChairEvery physician knows that exercise is the best medicine. If doctors could write a prescription… Turner Osler 0 Post Views: 53 Love0
Posture August 24, 2023 Posture and MeditationMediation is perhaps the quintessentially internal pursuit: the mind turned inward, examining itself. So, it’s… Turner Osler 0 Post Views: 79 Love1
Medical July 12, 2023 New Research Shows Back Pain Isn’t Helped by Opioid Drugs. What’s a Doctor to Do?A recent paper published in the premier medical journal The Lancet1 underscored again just how… Turner Osler 0 Post Views: 72 Love1
Active Sitting June 26, 2023 Real-Time Feedback from Automated Sensors Improves HealthReal-time feedback is how humans learn. Babies babble, listen to themselves, and then modify their… Turner Osler 0 Post Views: 68 Love0
Posture May 11, 2023 The Gravity Paradox: How Evolution Redirects Gravity to Hold Us UpGravity holding us up? Sounds silly. We can all feel gravity pulling us down, and… Turner Osler 0 Post Views: 92 Love0
Medical April 4, 2023 How We Move Changes Our Very Bones“It’s not so much what you know as it is who you know”. Often quoted… Turner Osler 0 Post Views: 113 Love0
Active Sitting March 10, 2023 Could Simply Changing Your Chair Add Years to Your Life?The profound difference between sitting and ‘active resting’ Note: Although I’m an academic researcher, because I… Turner Osler 0 Post Views: 214 Love0
Posture February 6, 2023 Ergonomics and Its DiscontentsAlthough the word ergonomics joined the English language less than 100 years ago, the idea… Turner Osler 0 Post Views: 90 Love0
Wellness January 17, 2023 Every Bit of Exercise CountsA paper recently published in the prestigious journal Nature Medicine will revolutionize our approach to… Turner Osler 0 Post Views: 222 Love0
Posture December 22, 2022 Better BalanceBalance is simply how our spines and limbs dance with gravity. But really balance is… Turner Osler 0 Post Views: 319 Love1
Wellness December 2, 2022 Do I need a Standing Desk?Standing vs. Sitting I talk to lots of people about their office setups, but one… Turner Osler 0 Post Views: 153 Love28
QOR360 November 28, 2022 What I Learned at the National Ergonomics ConferenceA few weeks ago, I attended “National Ergo”, an ergonomics conference that’s held once a… Turner Osler 0 Post Views: 117 Love0
Wellness November 19, 2022 Can Fidgeting Help You Live Longer?The health benefits of fidgeting Likely you know someone who is a natural-born fidgeter; you… Turner Osler 0 Post Views: 215 Love4
Active Sitting October 27, 2022 What Is an “Exercise Chair”? (Besides an Oxymoron)Why do we sit? On the face of it an “exercise chair” seems an odd… Turner Osler 0 Post Views: 279 Love29
Active Sitting October 4, 2022 This Just in (again): Passive sitting is bad for us.Exercise cannot undo the harms of passive sitting. Evidence has been accumulating for years that… Turner Osler 0 Post Views: 250 Love6
Medical August 25, 2022 Changing how you sit might help you avoid back surgeryI was a trauma surgeon for many years and I loved everything about it. Trauma… Turner Osler 0 Post Views: 198 Love24
Wellness August 15, 2022 Can how you sit help lower your cancer risk?We know not only that moving is good for us but also that sedentary behavior… Turner Osler 0 Post Views: 149 Love24