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
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