PRESS RELEASE Chairs with Balls That Improve Your Posture and Provide a Core Muscle Workout Research physiotherapists at Limerick University have compared sitting positions on a standard office chair and The Back App chair. The team found that the activation of important trunk muscles was significantly lower on the Back App meaning that sitting upright … Read more
New Research Helps Back Pain Sufferers. Interview with Kieran O’Sullivan, Research Physiotherapist, Limerick University Since I have been working with the Back App chair I have wondered what research is currently happening to help back sufferers. I decided that the best thing would be to ask someone who is actively involved and currently doing research … Read more
An Interview with Dr Adam Al-Kashi of the Charity BackCare As a corporate sponsor of the charity BackCare I thought I would ask Dr Adam Al-Kashi, their new Head of Research, a few questions about back pain, the work that the charity does and Adam’s role in it. The result below is, I hope, useful … Read more
Yesterday (May 19th 2012) I attended a local area meeting of the Central Sussex Osteopaths. The lecture was given by Dr Nikki Petty, a lecturer in physiotherapy at the Univesity of Brighton. The lecture was on clinical reasoning from a physiotheraspists perspective and was very well received. After sitting on a Back App chair for … Read more
Has a bad back ruined your love of playing golf? I must admit that I am not a golfer but I know a number of golfers who have had a bad back ruin their enjoyment of the game so I thought that the story below might provide you with a feel good factor and maybe even … Read more
BackCare, the charity that promotes healthy backs has a number of runners in the marathon raising money for them. I will be sponsoring one of them – his name is Charlie Woods. This is a very worthwhile cause – many people will suffer from the problem of back pain at sometime in their life and when … Read more
I recently spoke with Gillian Brown, an osteopath at the Harpenden Osteopathy & Sports Injury clinic. I pretended to be a member of the press and carried out an ‘in depth interview.’ Her thoughts on a healthy lifestyle and practising osteopathy are, I think, relevant to everyone. Interview with Gillian Brown – an osteopath in … Read more
I will be attending the ACPOHE/ SOM conference next week and will be exhibiting some Back App chairs. For those who attend there will be a chance to win a Back App ergonomic chair (www.backapp.co.uk .) The conference is on March 20th and 21st at the Royal College of Physicians and I will be exhibiting … Read more
At the Back Pain Show last week I spoke to many people while on the Back App stand. I started to note the questions that people asked and have listed some of them here – they are more or less in the order that they were asked most often. Questions about Back App from the … Read more
At the Back Pain Show last week I came across the Spring Rehab Centre. They run residential courses to help people that suffer. The courses generally last three weeks and are consultant led with instruction from physiotherapists. They cover many different topics from recreational therapy, individual physiotherpay and ability awareness.The concept seemed a good one … Read more