Back Pain: The Feldenkrais Perspective
A Guest Blog by Uwe Mester, Certified Feldenkrais Teacher, Member of the Feldenkrais Guild of America I would like to introduce you to Uwe Mester, a body movement and posture expert who has been...
Somehow, Every Ergonomist Gets Sitting Wrong
The field of ergonomics hasn’t changed their approach and recommendations for chairs in many, many years, even while the rate of Americans with back pain stubbornly persists at 80%. With that sort...
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, fresh food, and above all physical activity. And...
What if most of the advice you’ve been given is wrong?
We’re given a lot of advice over our lives, especially as children. And, because this advice comes from people we trust who want the best for us, this advice becomes the basis for how we live our ...
We force kids to abandon squatting so as adults, the position is nearly impossible and uncomfortable. Try this… drop a pencil on the floor and pick it up. Notice - did you bend over at the waist, ...
You sit still, you get old We often hear from folks who want to talk about our chair project; usually as emails but sometimes as phone calls. One of the most interesting comments lately was from...
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: “By 2030 nearly 1 in 2 adults in the US will be obese, and 1 in 4 will have severe obesity”. Th...
The limits of willpower (and how to hack them)
Willpower is a concept that we take for granted, because it seems obvious: an impulse arises, we think it over, and then decide whether or not to act on that impulse. Simple. But willpower actuall...
Tracking your steps? Add in your fidgets. How many steps do you take in a day? Once upon a time that would have been an absurd question but now, most of us have a device that simply tells us...
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 improved posture and strengthened core muscles, we init...
Image Source: The Telegraph Recently, news emerged about a troubling finding: young people growing a “head horn.” Was this the physical manifestation of too much hand-held screen time? Are our ...
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 talk, and this was the first student’s response. Apparently...
Active sitting - could we give our kids a future without back pain | Turner Osler | TEDx Stowe
https://youtu.be/uqp9sAM3bYI On the TEDx Stowe stage we hoped to spark a conversation about active sitting in schools, and how with a little innovation, it can be done cheap, fast, and effect...
“This is supposed to make my posture better, isn’t it?” Typically, this is the very first thing people say when they sit in our chair for the very first time. The comment is remarkably consiste...
Dr. Osler to Present at TEDx Stowe
It’s happening! We’re proud to announce that Dr. Osler will be presenting at TEDx, Stowe. We know that active sitting is an “idea worth spreading,” but to be invited to share our story and idea...
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 be as truthful, straightforward, and accurate as possible wh...
We’re proud to be featured local innovators in the Burlington Free Press. There are many great things happening in the Queen City, and we’re pleased to be one of them. To read the full article,...
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 doesn’t love “support”? If you’re going t...
Pilates Exercise for QOR360 Chair
Sit in motion and stay in shape with these quick and simple exercises to do using your QOR360 chair. The practice of Pilates focuses on strengthening your core, which aligns perfectly with active ...
Born to Move Sitting all day seems like a bad idea, but we are now learning just how bad sitting still is for us. Increased rates of heart disease, diabetes, even cancer have all been linked to...
Dr. Jason Wolstenholm takes us through the QOR4 exercises designed for the QOR360 active chair. Use them at the office to get a helpful movement patterns into your day! Our bodies were meant to...
Active sitting at a fine furniture convention – we were warned this might not be “our crowd.” Could people interested in the hot new shade of gray be interested in chairs designed to make you heal...
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 of time sitting (11 hours a day, on average), an...
You eat right, exercise at least three times per week, but still have high blood pressure and cholesterol. How is that possible? In a previous decade, we might have asked if you were a smoker (Wha...