Category Archives: Active Sitting

Workplace Wellness Programs Don’t Work. Time for a Home Office Reboot?

We humans spent our first 3 million years as hunter-gatherers, and over that long period, we came to expect certain benefits: sunshine, fresh air,… [...]

Squatting in the 21 Century

We force kids to abandon squatting so as adults, the position is nearly impossible and uncomfortable. Try this… drop a pencil on the floor… [...]

You sit still, you get old

You sit still, you get old   We often hear from folks who want to talk about our chair project; usually as emails but… [...]

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 it”. When we created an active sitting chair that… [...]

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6th Graders Take on the ButtOn Chair

“80% of Americans have back pain.” The sixth grade class had just been asked what information stood out to them from Dr. Osler’s TEDx… [...]

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Can active sitting relieve acute back pain

Can active sitting relieve acute back pain? This is a hot topic here at QOR360. We’re a science-based crowd, and our intention is to… [...]

Lumbar Support

Sounds great, doesn’t it? A little scientific, even medical (“lumbar” from the Latin lumbus, meaning loin). And at the same time gently comforting; who… [...]

Movement is Not Optional

Born to Move Sitting all day seems like a bad idea, but we are now learning just how bad sitting still is for us.… [...]

Reshaping Sitting

Active sitting at a fine furniture convention – we were warned this might not be “our crowd.” Could people interested in the hot new… [...]

Is your office chair actually causing your back pain?

Is your office chair actually causing your back pain? Probably. Do you already know your sitting posture is bad? Probably. People spend a lot… [...]

Sit, for your heart.

You eat right, exercise at least three times per week, but still have high blood pressure and cholesterol. How is that possible? In a… [...]

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QOR360 Supports Women’s Heart Health

Our chairs have always supported heart health through active sitting. February is women’s heart health awareness month. For each chair purchased in the month… [...]

If Sitting is the Problem, is Standing the Solution? NO!

“Yes, I know sitting is “the new smoking”; that’s why I have a standing desk”. I’ve heard this a lot over the last few… [...]

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Comfortable Chairs and the Purpose of Sitting

No one wants to be uncomfortable, and especially not for long periods of time. So it’s hardly surprising that when it comes to sitting,… [...]

Feldenkrais: a doctor’s view

Image: The Wisdom Daily © 2014 The Wisdom Daily. I’ve been a student of the Feldenkrais method for about a decade now, so I’m… [...]

Why “Ergonomic” chairs are bad for your posture.

Posture is response of the body to gravity. It is the moment to moment conversation our bodies have with gravity. This conversation begins at… [...]

How QOR360 came to be.

I’m sometimes asked “How did you come up with the rocker for your chairs?” I usually deflect this question with something like “Well, it… [...]

Yoga balls: not the solution for sitting at work (or anywhere else…)

“It’s like the yoga ball, isn’t it?” I hear this often when people encounter our QOR360 chairs for the first time and are trying… [...]