February 6, 2023
Ergonomics and Its Discontents
Although the word ergonomics joined the English language less than 100 years ago, the idea…
January 17, 2023
Every Bit of Exercise Counts
A paper recently published in the prestigious journal Nature Medicine will revolutionize our approach to…
December 22, 2022
Better Balance
Balance is simply how our spines and limbs dance with gravity. But really balance is…
December 2, 2022
Do I need a Standing Desk?
Standing vs. Sitting I talk to lots of people about their office setups, but one…
November 28, 2022
What I Learned at the National Ergonomics Conference
A few weeks ago, I attended “National Ergo”, an ergonomics conference that’s held once a…
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…
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…
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…
August 25, 2022
Changing how you sit might help you avoid back surgery
I was a trauma surgeon for many years and I loved everything about it. Trauma…
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…
July 20, 2022
Your Back Pain Isn’t In Your Back
Your Back Pain Isn’t In Your Back Pain is a universal experience, the result of…
July 9, 2022
Are 10,000 steps too many?
Are 10,000 steps too many? “Ten thousand steps” is now a well-ingrained idea that even…
June 6, 2022
Staying Awake at Work
Staying Awake at Work Staying awake at work has been a problem since the beginning…
April 16, 2022
Can Active Sitting Help with Acute Low Back Pain?
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest…
April 5, 2022
Better Posture
Posture is a seemingly uncomplicated attribute of our every moment. It is simply the habitual…
March 24, 2022
Posture, Good and Bad: We know it when we see it
Posture is simply how we arrange ourselves in response to gravity, so it seems a…
March 21, 2022
Sciatica: Causes, Cures, and … Chairs?
Understanding the cause of sciatica Sciatica is simply pain that radiates down the leg from…
March 9, 2022
Active Sitting: Can it keep you young?
It is a personal failing of mine that I don’t monitor my phone very carefully,…
February 20, 2022
Are You Sitting Too Much? Here are the symptoms of “sitting disease”
What is sitting disease? “Sitting disease” is not a specific disease recognized by doctors. Rather,…