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NuChair on the Job: Dental Offices
Creating a comfortable and healthy workplace is crucial, especially in dental offices where practitioners spend long hours meticulously attending to patients. If there's one common pain point for dental professionals, it's the seemingly inevitable back, neck, and shoulder pain.
Spine Crimes: Improper Lifting Posture
Lifting weights, done right, will build muscle, enhance endurance, and boost your fitness levels. But the moment you neglect proper lifting posture, you're committing a spine crime. These infractions don’t just momentarily put a stop to your workout; they can have long-lasting repercussions. Understanding and maintaining the correct posture is key to saving your spine from unnecessary harm and enhancing your overall performance.
Science of Sitting: Spinal Compression
In a world driven by technology and convenience, sitting is an activity that dominates much of our daily lives. From office desks to home relaxation, and even in our commutes, sitting has become an unavoidable position. Yet, it is also one of the most misunderstood activities in terms of its impact on our health, particularly our spine. Spinal compression is a critical concern many people face, often without realizing its causes or implications.
Spine Crimes: Screen Height
Spending long hours in front of a computer screen is nearly unavoidable. However, if you frequently find yourself experiencing neck, shoulder, or back pain, your screen height could be the culprit. The wrong screen height can wreak havoc on your spine, contributing to discomfort and chronic back pain. Understanding and optimizing your screen height, combined with using a NuChair—the best chair for back pain—can help alleviate this issue for desk workers everywhere.
Fitness Friday: Bird Dog
This Fitness Friday, let's focus on a fantastic exercise that improves stability, strengthens the core, and alleviates back pain: the Bird Dog. The bird dog is an excellent full-body exercise that targets multiple muscle groups. You don't need any fancy equipment, just a little bit of space on a mat or the floor. The simplicity and effectiveness of the bird dog make it a perfect addition to your fitness routine! This, combined with regular use of a NuChair can work wonders on your back!
Get Tough on Tension: Myofascial Pain
Living with persistent back pain can feel like an endless battle. Ever found yourself pondering, "Why does my back always hurt?" A common culprit to this chronic discomfort is myofascial pain. Understanding what it is and how to manage it is crucial to getting back to a pain-free life. Fortunately, products like the NuChair exist to offer much-welcomed relief.
NuChair on the Job: Remote Workers
If you're a remote worker, you likely know the pitfalls of long hours spent hunched over a laptop at your kitchen table. Back, neck, and shoulder pain can be all too familiar. This is where NuChair steps in with an exciting design that promises to transform your home office into a haven of comfort and productivity.
Fitness Friday: Standing Row
Incorporating the standing row into your fitness routine is a fantastic step towards greater strength, balance, and improved posture. Coupling this move with the ergonomic support of the NuChair magnifies the benefits, helping you build a more resilient body and alleviating the daily strain on your spine.
Science of Sitting: What NASA Found About the Neutral Sitting Position
NASA's understanding of neutral body posture (NBP) started with an unexpected discovery in space. When astronauts aboard Skylab, NASA's first space station, were photographed in microgravity, it became evident that the human body naturally assumes a distinct posture in such environments. This posture includes specific angles at the joints and peculiar limb positions. Understanding this natural alignment was crucial for the design of spacecraft that cater to both safety and comfort.
Spine Crimes: Crossing Legs While Sitting
Are you guilty of this one? Crossing your legs while sitting can be a subtle yet impactful contributor to back discomfort and potential chronic issues. While this habit can be detrimental to your spine, it is possible to break free from the related pain and postural problems.
Fitness Friday: curl-up
This Fitness Friday, let's focus on an effective and approachable exercise to enhance core strength: the curl-up. Unlike traditional sit-ups or crunches, the curl-up targets your abdominal muscles more gently, reducing the risk of back strain. This makes it an excellent addition to anyone's fitness repertoire, especially those looking for a safer way to work their core. Integrate it easily into your daily routine and continue to use your NuChair to maximize your results by maintaining proper ...
Get Tough on Tension: Relieve Chronic Stress with Practical Steps
Stress is a modern-day epidemic. With its relentless grip, it can twist even the most resilient of us into knots of tension. Today we're exploring practical, science-backed strategies that help you tackle tension head-on.
Science of Sitting: Combating Muscular Atrophy
In today’s modern office landscape, it's common to find employees spending countless hours hunched over desks, confined to traditional office chairs. This sedentary lifestyle has quietly steered us towards an epidemic of muscular atrophy, especially in our postural muscles. While traditional office chairs might seem benign, they are a significant contributor to weakening these essential muscles, and it's time to fix it
Fitness Friday: Pelvic Tilt
This Fitness Friday, we’re diving into a deceptively simple but highly beneficial exercise: the pelvic tilt. Often overlooked, this exercise can work wonders for your core strength, posture, and overall stability.
Spine Crimes: Hip Shift and Swayback
Spine concerns aren't new, but today's lifestyle trends have given rise to unique modern-day challenges that require smart solutions to see any kind of back pain relief. One condition worth talking about is the hip shift, also known as swayback.
Get Tough on Tension: Overthinking and Mental Fatigue
Overthinking and mental fatigue are common experiences in our modern, fast-paced world. Whether you're working from home or navigating a busy lifestyle, your work environment plays a huge role in your well-being. So why not create the most supportive workspace possible? Incorporate NuChair and these practices into your daily routine and experience a newfound ease in your mind and body.
Fitness Friday: Cat Cow Stretches
This Fitness Friday we're focusing on a wonderful and highly-beneficial exercise: the Cat-Cow stretch. This stretch can help improve flexibility in your spine and alleviate back tension, making it the perfect complement to your NuChair.
Get Tough on Tension: Zoom Fatigue
Working from home has become the new normal, but with it comes the dreaded “Zoom fatigue.” You know the feeling—endless video calls, back-to-back meetings, and that constant need to stay alert on camera. This modern-day stress can lead to tension in your face and neck, making you feel worn out and sore by the end of the day.
The Science of Sitting: What Happens to Your Body When You Sit on the Edge of Your Chair?
We hear all the time about how too much sitting is bad for our bodies. Well, it turns out that how we sit can be just as important as how long we sit! You might want to rethink the habit of sitting on the edge of your conventional chair. This common practice can have some serious consequences for your body.
Spine Crimes: Tackling Tech Neck with NuChair
Tech neck might sound like an exaggerated issue, but if you're someone who spends hours staring at screens, you probably know that the struggle is real. Our love of digital devices can take a real physical toll on our spines, but NuChair can help.