The Symbiotic Blog
This blog serves as a collection of health and wellness related content, helping you to connect back pain, ergonomics, and overall wellbeing together to help you work, move, and live your best life.
How Active Sitting Can Bring Back Your Psoas Balance
Sitting all day long can wreak havoc on your body. Unfortunately, most people spend an average of 9.5 hours sitting per day. From chronic pain to metabolic diseases, there is really no good thing that can come from sitting. This includes loss of psoas balance, which...
How Can Active Sitting Improve your Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis – NEAT
Our society promotes a very sedentary lifestyle. We sit at work, on our commutes, while at school, during meals, and to relax. In the US, we can even sit while we wait for our groceries to be brought to our car and in the drive through bank or pharmacy. Not only are...
How Smartphones and Tablets Are Affecting Your Spine
Whether you call it “Text Neck” or “Tech Neck”, most of you reading this have probably endured at least some form of neck or back pain, headache, or even jaw pain. It may have not been obvious at the time of experiencing your symptoms, but the use of your smartphone...
How Ergonomics Affects Productivity
As our society continues to advance in nearly all fields of work, it is of the utmost importance that we continue to advance how we ourselves, as humans, perform the work in these different fields. How we work to complete our tasks directly influences our...
The Relationship Between the Psoas, Stress, and Active Sitting
The psoas is such a unique and important muscle. Besides its contribution to many movements and postures, it is highly associated with stress, anxiety, and many other emotions. Sometimes people try to treat dysfunction of the psoas muscle with excessive stretching and...
Active Sitting as a Solution for Sitting Induced Low Back Pain
Our bodies were not designed for sitting. If you travel back in time, you will find that our ancestors were too busy hunting and gathering to have any time to sit. And, if you think back to your childhood, you will remember that you spent so much more time running,...
How Important is Core Stability While Sitting At Work?
You may know some things about core stability, especially as it pertains to exercise and lifting heavy. But you may not realize how important core stability is as it relates to posture and prolonged sitting at work. The strength and stability of your core has the...
How To Use Your Laptop Without Damaging Your Spine
Laptops have revolutionized the way people work. Due to their size, portability, and battery power, laptops can be used anywhere in the world. Despite their convenience, laptops may actually be hurting us much more than we realize. Have you ever stopped to take a look...
How Can Your Posture Cause Lower Cross Syndrome?
It is commonly known that poor posture and sitting for prolonged periods of time can wreak havoc on our bodies. From headaches to low back pain and carpal tunnel to sore hips, if you have to sit for work, you will most likely experience some sort of aches and pains,...
5 Tips on How to Incorporate Microbreaks Into Your Sedentary Work Day
Have you heard of the term “microbreak” before? Perhaps not. This is a relatively new phrase but it is becoming increasingly popular in the workplace, especially for the office or sedentary worker. No matter if you are working from home or in an office space, anyone...
Can a Posture Correcting Chair Improve Mental Performance?
Chances are, you are probably sitting down while you read this. Perhaps you are on break at work, trying to get through your mid-day crash. Another cup of coffee or a granola bar are just not cutting it these days. Too bad your office chair can’t fold out into a bed...
Sitting Disease, Is It Possible to Overcome?
Our society is being plagued with the preventable, sitting disease. According to the World Health Organization, approximately 3.2 million deaths each year are attributable to insufficient physical activity. The lack of physical activity is on the rise due to the fact...
How the Symbiotic Chair helps you to withstand a day of Zoom meetings without breaking your back
We recently spoke to Melanie Nicholls about her experiences with the shift to remote working and how this led her to improve her home workstation and start using an active sitting office chair. Please tell us about yourself, who do you work for, what is your job...

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