We Need a Healthy Mix of Sitting and Standing It is often said what happens in the USA ends up happening here sooner or later. An article that is a review of the Back App chair also looks at American office habits and says that they are going through a Renaissance in active office furniture … Read more
STAND UP, GET SLIMMER, A BETTER POSTURE AND LIVE LONGER ‘Standing has benefits for improving your posture and therefore back pain, it improves circulation and therefore cardiovascular health and it also promotes greater mobility in general.’ This is from Professor Kevin Fenton, the national director for Health and Wellbeing at Public Health England, which is … Read more
An MRI Scan While Sitting on the Back App I recently had an MRI scan and really enjoyed it. It may seem odd to say that when I will usually settle for not too painful or uncomfortable on a trip to the hospital. This was however very different – the reason being it was an … Read more
Interview with Edward Tidbury at RBLI A while ago I met with Edward Tidbury of Royal British Legion Industries. He runs the independent work based assessment programme which essentially means that he and his team help people remain in work, get in to work and be more efficient when they are at work. It is … Read more
When I see people who are worried about their posture or have a bad back I always suggest that they don’t suffer in silence and get some help. Whether this is seeing an osteopath, physiotherapist, chiropractor, Alexander technique practitioner it is important to realise that there are people who can and want to help. My … Read more
There is a lot of talk about standing at your desk being more healthy than sitting all day for all sort http://buyklonopin.net of reasons. This morning on the BBC there as a piece on this subject – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27305330 For those people that want to move more but find it hard to stand all day then the … Read more
Angela Bradshaw is an Alexander Technique teacher and has written a book that is an introduction to AT. I have read it and my review is below – I like it and recommend it whether you have back pain and other niggles or not. Follow the link below to buy it. Most people have heard … Read more
Are child car seats a bit of a pain? I have a four year old boy and I have often found fixing the child seat into the car an irritating thing generic ambien 79 to do. It is at a funny angle and puts my back in an awkward position. This blow up child seat … Read more
Meet The Experts Last November (2013) I was lucky enough to be invited to the Medserena upright MRI facility in London. This is a state of the art MRI where Professor Francis Smith is clinical director and he hosted a round table chat with some very experienced and capable people in the world of ergonomics … Read more
I went to the Health and Wellbeing@Work conference this last Wednesday. It was very good with lots of excellent exhibitors and talks.I went to some of the talks chaired by Professor Peter Buckle and the subject of changing cultures and also bad habits of children using technology came up. The professor took a straw poll … Read more