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Dr. Turner Osler TEDx Stowe Vermont Active Sitting

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...

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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...

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Dr Osler Presents at TEDx Stowe on Active Sitting

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...

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ergonomic office chair

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...

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burlington free press features active chair company QOR360

We’re in the press!

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,...

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the problem with lumbar support

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 doesn’t love “support”? If you’re going t...

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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...

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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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ergonomic office chair back pain

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...

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QOR360 sit for heart health logo

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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go red for women's heart health

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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standing desk

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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recline chair desk

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, the activity that consumes most of our waking hours, the que...

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moshe feldenkrais

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…...

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active sitting posture correction

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 birth, and continues as babies first lift their head, ...

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active chair prototype design QOR360

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 wasn’t the first thing I thought of…” and hope that’s enough...

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yoga balls are not active sitting

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 to figure out what sitting on one of our rockers might feel like. ...

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