Qor360

Research shows that sitting is incredibly bad for our health. People sit more than ever (Americans, on average, sit for 11 hours per day!) and it's literally killing us. Active sitting keeps your body in motion, and helps prevent sitting disease. Turner is the CEO and Founder of QOR360. Dr. Osler is an academic trauma surgeon turned research epidemiologist who has published over 300 peer-reviewed medical papers and book chapters. As a physician who's suffered from a tyranny of conventional chairs for most of his life, Dr. Osler's quest for a healthier way to sit led him to develop The Eccentric Bicylinder, a shape that is central to QOR360's ergonomic, healthy, and active seating products.

Dr. Turner Osler, a career academic trauma surgeon at the University of Vermont Medical Center, observed that while our chair-centric society requires sitting for hours every day, such enforced periods of prolonged, static, and unnatural posture not only damages our day-to-day health, but actually shortens our lifespans. Turner decided we should all be sitting better. With decades of experience as a physician and researcher, and a leading team of furniture designers and body work experts, Turner set out to make his vision of a more healthy sitting experience a reality.

Sitting passively in the posture imposed by Western chairs has been clearly associated with the epidemic of back pain that ultimately afflicts 80% of Americans. But back pain is really the lesser of the problems associated with sitting. It turns out our Western chairs not only force us to sit poorly, they also force us to sit still, and of the two problems, sitting still creates by far the more serious issues. Although sitting poorly leads to self-limited episodes of low back pain, sitting still distorts human biochemistry so profoundly that it has been dubbed "sitting disease".