Interview with a Yoga Teacher Alison Trewhela is a very experienced and highly qualified yoga teacher. She began teaching over 30 years ago and in 2006-7 designed the yoga programme for the largest piece of research work into the effects of yoga on back pain to date. As an interest in yoga lead me … Read more
Kieran O’Sullivan’s research has resulted in another paper being accepted for publication in the journal Ergonomics. The paper will be published online in February and the abstract and full title are below. For a quick summary of Kieran’s work see this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeAejxr12OIKieran will be presenting his work at a seminar at the Back Pain show on both … Read more
Interview with an Ergonomist As part of my series of interviews with people that get involved with different aspects of back pain I recently met with the ergonomist Jan Mulligan. Jan runs the Greenleafe Ergonomics consultancy and she was good enough to spend some time with me to answer some questions. This was a little … Read more
Interview with a Pilates Teacher Murielle Carrasco has run the Garage Studio in Barnes since 2003 and strives to make it a friendly environment teaching Pilates, Yoga and Gyrotonic. I found it to be just that and in spite of being a slightly ungainly and overweight bloke was made to feel welcome when I went … Read more
The latest edition of Ergonoma has Back App on the front cover – check it outhttp://issuu.com/ergonoma/docs/ergonoma-journal-n-29/1
An Interview with a Chiropractor and Nutritionist In my activities of distributing the Back App ergonomic chair I come across a lot of different people which is part of the reason I enjoy doing it. Chris Pickard is a practising Doctor of Chiropractic who has also studied aspects of nutrition and he agreed to answer … Read more
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Back App UK is sponsoring the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in taking a production of Twelfth Night to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It is an introduction to Shakespeare and includes fools in love,cross-dressing, and skiffle music…AT THE SEASIDE! It is a fanstastic production as you can see from the photos and the quotes below. If you … Read more
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