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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...

Head Horns? (Pt. 1)

Head Horns? (Pt. 1)

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 b...

6th Graders Take on the ButtOn Chair

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...

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Your personal posture coach

“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...

Pilates Exercise for QOR360 Chair

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 ...

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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. Increased rates of heart disease, diabetes, even cancer have all been linked to...

QOR360 chair exercises

The QOR4 Exercises

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...

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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 shade of gray be interested in chairs designed to make you heal...

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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 previous decade, we might have asked if you were a smoker (Wha...

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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 of February, QOR360 will donate 5% ...

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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 years. And it seems to make perfect sense: after all, isn’t standing the o...

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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 really just a beginner. But here’s what I think I’ve been learning…...