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 Love0
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 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 Love6
Active Sitting 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… Turner Osler 0 Love4
Active SittingWellness 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,… Turner Osler 0 Love7
Active SittingDesignPosture January 8, 2022 Why does my office chair hurt my back? If you’ve ever shopped for an office chair you’ve likely noticed that all the designs… Turner Osler 0 Love4
Active SittingPosture December 28, 2021 Unnecessary “ergonomic” chair parts Why do office chairs have so many parts? People searching for the “best ergonomic office… Turner Osler 0 Love6
Active Sitting August 15, 2021 The inventor of the Barefoot Shoe loves our office chair We recently connected with the inventor of the VivoBarefoot Shoe, and he loves our office… Turner Osler 1 Love3
Active SittingButtOn ChairMedical July 6, 2021 Best chair for people with ADHD? Can active sitting help people with ADHD focus better? Research shows that alternative seating and… Turner Osler 0 Love2
Active SittingMedical June 12, 2021 Can active sitting help people with scoliosis? Can active sitting help people with scoliosis? Possibly. In the least, it helped relieve the… Turner Osler 0 Love2
Active SittingInspirationWellness May 20, 2021 Effortless Fitness: Why there are no gyms in Japan Japanese people embrace walking as regular exercise. As a result, few people use gyms, but… Turner Osler 2 Love2
Active SittingExercises April 2, 2021 Active sitting – what’s it for? “What’s it for?” Or, occasionally, “What’s it good for?” I get this question about our… Turner Osler 0 Love3
Active SittingPosture February 21, 2021 The Feldenkrais Approach to Healing Back Pain Uwe Mester is a Certified Feldenkrais Teacher, and Member of the Feldenkrais Guild of America.… Uwe Mester 0 Love1
Active SittingPosture January 27, 2021 Back Pain: The Feldenkrais Perspective A Guest Blog by Uwe Mester, Certified Feldenkrais Teacher, Member of the Feldenkrais Guild of… Uwe Mester 0 Love4
Active Sitting 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… Turner Osler 0 Love1
Active SittingWellness June 15, 2020 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,… Turner Osler 0 Love1
Active SittingPosture April 24, 2020 Squatting in the 21 Century We force kids to abandon squatting so as adults, the position is nearly impossible and… Turner Osler 0 Love1
Active Sitting February 14, 2020 You sit still, you get old You sit still, you get old We often hear from folks who want to… Turner Osler 1 Love1
Active SittingDesign 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… Turner Osler 2 Love1
Active SittingButtOn Chair June 20, 2019 6th Graders Take on the ButtOn Chair “80% of Americans have back pain.” The sixth grade class had just been asked what… qor360 35 Love1