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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

WHAT DOES ERGONOMIC MEAN?

The word ergonomic is the study of the interaction between individuals, machines or appliances in their environment that can affect their performance and productivity. The purpose of Ergonomic is to assess the interaction, or relationship between each component for determining optimum improvement in performance. Ergonomic therefore examines the relationship between three elements: the individual, the equipment, the environment and how they can be improved. So what does this mean you may ask?

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

Deep Breathing in Prolonged Sitting for Back Pain Relief

Breathing is a natural occurring movement in our body for gaining much needed oxygen to remain alive. We can use diaphragmatic breathing to activate additional oxygen in our bodies, when we need to calm our body or increase motivation in our activity. It will help change a lethargic, inactive person, to feeling alive and ready to face any uncomfortable state. To most people breathing is just a small movement in the lungs, for the purpose of gaining oxygen into the lungs that we need in order to live.

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

Ergonomic Sitting - Skeletal Health for Your Back

Ergonomic sitting is the term that I have created for performing work-based activities throughout the day for comfort in prolonged sitting. The term was created by me after finding I had overcome the postural scoliosis in my spine, caused from one leg being longer than the other; which is common in tall females like me. This has happened quite by accident from my love of cycling. I love being outdoors and exercising and I needed to lose weight, because I love eating. My friend dragged me on a cycle weekend many years ago, when I lived in Ontario.

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

Ergonomic Office Chairs: Part 2 -Postural Practice for Prolonged Sitting

In Part 1, a method of pelvic movement was described that helps sustain prolonged sitting in an Ergonomic chair, for users who need to sit all day in productive employment. An exercise was shown that helps improve this movement, as well as its purpose. It was also explained why postural comfort does not come naturally and how we need to learn methods of how to make normal tasks easier. Being a baby boomer, our bones are not as strong and we need to learn to do things a little differently, using a safer and easier method.

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

The Dangers to your Spine in Daily Living: Washing the Kitchen Floor

Housework is one of the main ways that many people injure their backs, by simply not using the correct muscles or joints in the movements required for accomplishing the task. The main option for cleaning the floor is to use a kitchen mop. If your kitchen is large, then you are more likely to use some variation of a mop. But if you are like me, with a very small kitchen, I just get down on my hands and knees and use a cloth; or if I am lazy, I will push the cloth around with my feet, to clean the floor!

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

HOW TO CHOOSE AN ERGONOMIC CHAIR

You are thinking of purchasing an ergonomic chair. Well done! The decision to think ergonomic means you want to take care of your skeletal joints, so that you suffer fewer discomforts as you age. My knowledge as a qualified Occupational Therapist, along with an M.Sc in Health Promotion is proof that my focus is support, safety and prevention. I also have a congenital back disorder, which means that I practise what I preach! Let’s start with what is an ergonomic chair? The word ergo is Latin for ‘work’, so it describes the purpose of the chair.

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

The Third of Seven Sins in Obesity - Dehydration

After going through the first two reasons why the western population is gaining so much weight.; we come to the third reason which is dehydration. I am inclined not to attribute all the blame to you personally, because we live in a society where we are bombarded with advertising. It is therefore not surprising that you follow the directions of the corporate leaders, who with their financial power; are able to lead you down their attractive commercial path of value-added offers and packaging for eating convenient fast food.r

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

Drinking 2 Glasses of Water before a Meal, Reduces Weight Loss More than with or after a Meal

According to a study that came out on August 23rd 2010 in Canada, it was found that in two groups of baby boomers who ate exactly the same foods in a one month period; the group who drank 2 glasses of water before their meal, lost significantly more weight than the group who did not drink water before their meal. This is significant in weight loss for the baby boom population, because they are less active than their counterparts and therefore exert less physical energy; but it also effect the timing of drinking any type of water for hydrating our body, even when trying to lose weight.

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

The Fifth Deadly Seven Sin in Obesity – Poor Time Management

It is hoped that by now, you are able see the development of how obesity advanced in the western culture, with the advent of the motor vehicle. As I have declared, it is not entirely your fault; because the pattern has been driven by big corporations; for attracting families into seeing their relaxed, convenient and inexpensive style of dining, when driving a motor car, which then offers incentives for children to want to come back again.

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

The Seven Sins of Obesity: The Final Conclusion

This article is the final conclusion to the article series about the sins, or reasons for obesity in the western culture from the last seven articles. Let’s just go through the process of how it all started: It began with the use of a vehicle – a car for getting around, which immediately reduced our physical capacity to walk and thus deprived our own ability to exercise.

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

The Dangers to your Spine in Daily Living: Picking up a Feather

Whether you are picking up a feather or a sack of potatoes; the principles of bending over and reaching to the floor are the same. Always remember that your spine is not designed to bend into a 90 degree angle. There is no flexibility in the spine. It is your legs that need the movement and not your spine.

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

Ergonomic Office Chairs: Part I .Postural Practice for Prolonged Sitting

Ergonomic chairs are designed for enabling people to remain comfortable when performing work or employment based activities in an ergonomic chair. Postural comfort does not come naturally. It comes from learning to create movement in your pelvic region, so that tissues in your buttocks remain comfortable. Movement is needed in your pelvic region, because it is not humanly possible to sit all day in one position. Your body forces you to move your pelvic area at least every twelve minutes.

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

The Sixth of Seven Sins in Obesity – Sedentary Leisure Activities

Following on from time management skills, do we actually have time for leisure activities? It is questionable whether anyone plans to have leisure time, or whether you are like me; you just grab it now and again, when someone offers you a hike up the “Grouse Grind” or something else active and you feel it is OK to take some time off! So what do you do when you do have some leisure time off? Do you want to do something active that challenges your physical stamina? Or do you just want to pamper yourself and make yourself feel better, with something like a therapeutic massage?

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

Holding Daily Life in Comfort

HOLDING DAILY LIFE IN COMFORT using a “RELAXED HOLD” Gail McGonigal B.Sc.O.T., M.Sc.Health Is living life comfortable for you? Or does performing routine daily tasks result in pain or discomfort in your hands? It happened to me several years ago, when I began feeling pain in the base of my thumb joints when performing normal everyday tasks. I have always been a very fit and active person, riding my bicycle everywhere and just getting on with my daily life.

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

The First of Seven Sins in Obesity –the Car

This article is not directed to any woeful sins that you are currently enjoying that are causing your obesity. The sins are what is society is creating, that makes it difficult for you to lose weight. I feel that you need to understand what these sins are, in the hope that you can learn to make changes in your lifestyle that will better your overall health status.r

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

The Dangers to your Spine in Daily Living - Brushing your Teeth

What! A simple task as brushing your teeth? How can this be so dangerous? I have done it this way for years and it’s never been a problem! The fact that you have repeated the same motion for years may be the reason why your back is now giving you problems. It may be that you are so accustomed to repeating a bad habit, that your body is now showing symptoms of degeneration from the build up of stress.

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

The Second of Seven Sins in Obesity – Fast Food

This article is the second in a series, where I am trying to explain the reasons for the transformation of our size and shape into obesity. In the western culture, we have a market explosion of advertising in every direction that confuses life with 'need' and 'wants'. There are too many choices for deciding what is right and wrong in life.r

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

Obesity is About Changing your Lifestyle and Not about Trying to Lose Weight

If you are constantly obsessed with food, by depriving yourself of what you enjoy; then the changes are that you will actually never win the battle of trying to lose weight. Every time I said to myself “Right I am going on a Diet! I would suddenly have this strong desire to have something deliciously fattening and I would crave over this, until gave in to my cravings and failed miserably to go on a diet.

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

What Causes Back Pain in Daily Living?

Back pain is the most common cause of visits to your family doctor, because of its interference in our movements in daily activities. The reason for its high incidence is because you are creating too much dynamic movement in your spine, during these activities; with insufficient balanced, stationary movement that your spine truly needs.

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

Why is Prolonged Sitting BAD for your Health?

If you watched CTV last week in Canada, you will have seen that the government is warning workers that prolonged sitting is no longer good for your overall health. It is an area that I have been discussing in relation to your skeletal health, but now the government is warning workers in situations such as call centers and workers on computers, that many medical conditions are negatively related to the inactivity caused by prolonged sitting.

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

10 WAYS TO MOVE IN PROLONGED SITTING

Sitting is not designed to be a stillness activity. Our body is not intended to remain still, but to constantly move. There is currently a great deal of interest in the negative effects of prolonged sitting, because lack of movement far outweighs the balance in a healthy lifestyle. In other words, we are doing TOO much sitting and not enough active movement that benefits our heart and our skeletal joints. Here are 10 tips to stop you from sticking to your seat in prolonged sitting. Start your day with some yoga stretching. Put your hands in the prayer position in front of you.

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

Why Can't I Find Comfort in Sitting?

Sitting is the most common action performed by our body. We do more sitting than we do walking. Yet why do we complain so much about the way we sit? The answer lies in the fact that we have never understood how to sit correctly for comfort. In my youth I was always told to 'sit up,' or my spine will turn crooked. Yet nobody actually explained to me how I was supposed to sit, in order to sustain an upright position. The good news is that there IS a correct method of sitting that will relieve all your discomforts and is easier than you think to achieve!

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

How to Sit in a Chair All Day with Comfort

We spend a large portion of our day in the sitting position; yet why is it so uncomfortable to sit all day? Unfortunately, the human body is not designed to remain permanently in one place. It is designed to constantly move, so any prolonged sitting is naturally going feel uncomfortable. To overcome this problem we need learn how to balance our body on our skeletal frame, for allowing muscle relaxation and comfort. Most of us understand that to maintain a healthy spine we need to sit up straight.

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

Drinking Only Alkaline Water Can Heal Chronic Pain

It is difficult for many people to understand that there are very different types of water around. This is largely due to the chemical structure of natural water. Water that comes from your tap is natural water at a pH of normally 7.5; which many people fear may not be healthy for us, because of the chemicals that may be in the water through chemical fertilizer drainage from soil into the water.

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalSep 16, 20111 topic

What Is Ergonomic Movement?

The term 'ergonomic' is a label that applies to the study of the workplace environment for efficiency, safety and productivity. People who study this area usually have a professional background in ergonomics and apply their own understanding to the employment environment through their knowledge in ergonomics. However, the working environment is not exclusively the employment domain; because many people now use their employment skills in the home environment, since the adven

Primary topic: Back and Neck Pain

Back and Neck Pain

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

AN NEW APPROACH TO ACTIVE LIVING

Active Living is about how we choose to ‘live’ our lives every day. It includes all the movements that we create, for accomplishing tasks for ourselves & others in our family, our work, recreation, plus everything that we “perform” for making “living” the content of our daily life. We live in a constantly changing world, where movement and adaptation are all part of the daily living process. We use our intuitive senses and experience to make meaning in our daily lives. Many parts of life are routine and repetitive, but no situation is ever alike.

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalSep 16, 20111 topic

7 Ways to Relieve Back Pain in Ergonomic Chairs Using a Towel

It is very easy to sit in a chair, but to sit in a chair for a long time with comfort is difficult. If you are sitting at a computer all day, then I would suggest try bringing a small or medium sized towel to your work area. You will be amazed at how much this piece of equipment will aid your comfort level throughout the day. The beauty about a towel is that it can be changed to whatever size that you need. If you then roll up the towel and place a few rubber bands around i

Primary topic: Arthritis Treatment

Arthritis Treatment

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

Waking Up with Back Pain - What Will Make it Go Away?

The main causes of back pain are lack of movement in your spine. As a writer about back pain, because I have suffered back pain myself with postural scoliosis in my spine; I will admit that it happens to us all, if we don't practice what we preach! None of us are perfect and I am no exception! Last night I went out to watch a movie that was being held in a local outdoor park in Vancouver. I sat on the grass with my legs crossed legged watching the movie on a big screen. Thankfully the grass was dry, the movie was good and I cycled home afterwards feeling the evening had been good!r

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

Back Pain. Why Not Think Ergonomic Solutions?

Back pain is one of the main reasons why people take time off work and why? It is because we spend too much time in sedentary, sloppy positions, doing very little movement and letting our muscles become lax and under-used. We have become a society that drives around in cars – to the shops, to the gym, to work. We use elevators to go upstairs, hire dog-walkers to exercise our dogs, and then take tablets, because our hearts are not energetic enough to pump sufficient blood around our arteries!

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalSep 16, 20111 topic

The Dangers of Wearing High-Heeled Stiletto Shoes

How can anyone manage to walk comfort when walking in high-heeled stiletto shoes? It seems that there are guidelines on the internet that show you how to balance in these incredibly high-heeled shoes, or stilettos as they are called in the fashion world. Sadly I must inform you about the dangers that you are causing to your skeletal gait by just walking in these so called shoes. High-heeled or stiletto shoes are not shoes at all, because they are crippling your feet and do

Primary topic: Back and Neck Pain

Back and Neck Pain

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By Gail McGonigalSep 16, 20111 topic

How To Create An Ergonomic Chair

You are thinking of getting an ergonomic chair. Well done! Your decision to think ergonomic means you care about your skeletal joints so that you suffer less discomforts in daily life. My knowledge as a trained Occupational Therapist, along with our mission to protect your joints, preserve your energy and promote your safety will assure you that we genuinely want you make the right decisions in ergonomics for daily life. What is an ergonomic chair? The word ergo is Latin for

Primary topic: Applied Kinesiology

Applied Kinesiology

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

The True Meaning of Comfort in Daily Living

If someone were to ask you to create a of picture ‘comfort’ in your mind, what images would you create? It is a question that I have asked people, in order to find out how people interpret comfort. I was surprised at some of the answers, which made me question people’s perception of how they interpret comfort in their daily lives. I imagined the usual sunset across the ocean imagery and the sound of lapping waves. But as I continued the questioning, I began to realize the imagery relates to how we want to feel in our minds. Comfort is as an emotional state of well being.

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalSep 23, 20111 topic

Ergonomics - What Does it Mean?

The word ergonomic is the study of the interaction between individuals, machines or appliances in their environment that can affect their performance and productivity. The purpose of ergonomic is to assess the interaction, or relationship between each component for determining optimum performance. Ergonomic therefore examines the relationship between three elements: the individual, the equipment, the environment and how they can be improved. So what, you may ask? Ergonomic

Primary topic: Applied Kinesiology

Applied Kinesiology

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By Gail McGonigalSep 23, 20111 topic

A New Approach to Active Living

Active Living is about how we choose to 'live' our lives every day. It includes all the movements that we create, for accomplishing tasks for ourselves & others in our family, our work, recreation, plus everything that we "perform" for making "living" the content of our daily life. We live in a constantly changing world, where movement and adaptation are all part of the daily living process. We use our intuitive senses and experience to make meaning in our daily lives. Many

Primary topic: Applied Kinesiology

Applied Kinesiology

2,456 views

By Gail McGonigalSep 23, 20111 topic

What is Ergonomic Sitting?

Ergonomics is the relationship between the person, the tools or equipment and the environment within which the equipment is being used. The most important part of this relationship is how the human relates to the equipment in the environment. The environment may be an office, a kitchen or a garage environment. It largely depends on where the chair is being used, but your body will be the same in any environment. Ergonomic studies the relationship between each of the componen

Primary topic: Fitness and Exercise

Fitness and Exercise

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

The Fourth of Seven Sins in Obesity – Changing Family Dynamics

We have now reached the fourth reason that is driving obesity in the western world, which is not entirely due to the individual. I consider that the western culture corporations have designed this pattern, firstly by encouraging everyone to use a car for transportation, instead of their own feet.

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalSep 23, 20111 topic

Reduce Obesity Fast by Drinking Alkaline Ionized Water

I have already written an article about the importance of drinking fresh tap water instead of carbonated and fruit drinks. The main reason for this is because you are only drinking calories made up of sugar, which has no value to your body, except leaving behind acidic ions. If you are obese, then drinking anything acidic will not help your obesity, as the positive hydrogen from the carbonation process will just be stored in your fat tissues around your body. It will then m

Primary topic: Overeating and Obesity

Overeating and Obesity

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

The Benefits of Drinking Ionized Water for Improving Health

Water is an essential need in our daily life, because we are made up of 80% water and it either evaporates, or is used up in the metabolism of our body for the productive activity of daily living. The content of our body is made up of neutral water, which our body continually needs for the replacing fluids in our biological cycle. Neutral water is designed to keep us free from illness, but in our western lifestyle; it has no longer become the norm for people to drink neutral water.

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

The Benefits of Drinking Ionized Water for Improving Health

Water is an essential need in our daily life, because we are made up of 80% water and it either evaporates, or is used up in the metabolism of our body for the productive activity of daily living. The content of our body is made up of neutral water, which our body continually needs for the replacing fluids in our biological cycle. Neutral water is designed to keep us free from illness, but in our western lifestyle; it has no longer become the norm for people to drink neutral water.

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

Protect Your Joints - Preserve Your Energy - Promote Your Safety

What do these three words mean for our human body? When we PROTECT our body, it means that we are protecting it against injury; like protecting our head with a helmet when we cycle. We protect our back from injury, by bending our knees instead of our backs when lifting a heavy box. We protect our ankles by wearing hiking boots, when we go hiking; so that we do not stumble over uneven surfaces and strain our ankles. We wear waterproof clothing when it rains, so that we are protected from getting wet; the wetness can cause a chill, with a potential chill that can threaten our health.

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalSep 16, 20111 topic

3 Safety Issues With Ergonomic Chairs

Safety can only be dangerous with an ergonomic chair; if you perceive the chair as safe, when in fact it is NOT safe. Therefore you must learn to notice the safety issues around an ergonomic chair, because they are not always the same as a standard chair. It does not matter which ergonomic chair that you are using, or about to purchase; as the safety issues are the same on them all. It is up to YOU to see the dangers that may cause you to fall and hurt yourself. The first

Primary topic: Back and Neck Pain

Back and Neck Pain

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By Gail McGonigalSep 16, 20111 topic

Ergonomic Chairs - The Dangers Inherent in Transfers With Back Pain

Ergonomic Chairs are designed to maintain your comfort when performing work based activities throughout the day. It means that people who have back problems are more likely to choose this type of chair, for easing their back discomforts. As an Occupational Therapist, my expertise is safety and ergonomic chairs have a potential danger for transferring in and out of the chair. The ergonomic chair uses casters for moving the chair around easily in their work environment, but t

Primary topic: Back and Neck Pain

Back and Neck Pain

1,667 views

By Gail McGonigalSep 16, 20111 topic

Riding a Bicycle is Cheaper Than Visiting a Chiropractor

Yes, it is true that if you ride a bicycle regularly, you will not have to visit a chiropractor for erasing your sciatic pain. I can vouch for this, because I have suffered postural scoliosis in my spine since I was a teenager, caused from one leg being longer than the other by 3 cms, or one inch. This is common ailment in tall women and when I was a teenager after a gym accident at school. I was only warned not to lift anything heavy. However, once I started working as an O

Primary topic: Back and Neck Pain

Back and Neck Pain

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By Gail McGonigalRecently published1 topic

Embrace Yoga Principles when Using Ergonomic Sitting

Yoga principles encourage relaxation in the muscles of your body, along with deep breathing that calms the mind for optimum concentration towards the task at hand when sitting. Sitting on your pelvic bones in an ergonomic chair, with your stocking feet wrapped around the chair base, is like sitting on the floor with your legs crossed. Your body weight will naturally relax onto your pelvic bones and runs up through the length of your spine to your head.

Primary topic: Baby Boomers

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By Gail McGonigalSep 23, 20111 topic

Obesity - Strategic Goal Planning, Not Dieting For Permanent Health Changes!

Whatever we do in life, we immediately plan towards an action. It's not written out; we just get up and do it! That is basically how we operate in life. Now think of what you want to do, that will improve on your health. What you need is a goal. It is a direction, or a purpose for improvement. The goal needs to be realistic and achievable. If it is not realistic, then you are doomed to failure. If I say my goal is to participate in the Tour de France next year; this is total

Primary topic: Overeating and Obesity

Overeating and Obesity

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By Gail McGonigalSep 16, 20111 topic

Safety in Ergonomic Chairs - A Safer Way to Transfer For Big and Tall People

Most people never think about safety, when sitting in an ergonomic chair. However, safety is an important area to consider, because of the risks inherent in movement. If you're moving incorrectly, this may cause an injury to your skeletal joints, or the ergonomic chair itself may not be safe for movement. The most important safety issue to remember, when sitting in an ergonomic chair; is the chair is never secure on the floor. The chair is fitted with casters, which means th

Primary topic: Overeating and Obesity

Overeating and Obesity

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By Gail McGonigalSep 16, 20111 topic

Dangers in Daily Living: Vacuuming the Carpet

The previous article wrote about the dangers to our spines, when mopping the kitchen floor. It may seem similar movements could be used to vacuum the carpets. However vacuuming requires greater strength, when pushing a mechanical piece of equipment compared to a mop. This is because the mop is much lighter and less cumbersome to handle, but also the action of pushing the appliance across carpet takes greater muscle strength, due to the resistance of the carpet. Where does t

Primary topic: Back and Neck Pain

Back and Neck Pain

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By Gail McGonigalSep 16, 20111 topic

Why Does Prolonged Sitting Cause So Much Back Pain?

As this question stands, the position of sitting should not cause back pain; providing you do not sit in the same position for very long time, or you will begin to feel discomfort either your back or in your buttocks. This is because your body is designed for movement, so if you do not move after a few minutes; then you will start to feeling uncomfortable in some parts of your body. It does not mean that you have to keep getting up and sitting down. All your body is asking

Primary topic: Back and Neck Pain

Back and Neck Pain

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By Gail McGonigalSep 16, 20111 topic

What Is Productive Activity?

When we think of activity usually as a sporting activity, where people participate in more physically energetic sports as fun and to test our competitive ability; such as in playing tennis, ice and field hockey and football. However, the term 'activity' can also mean anything that uses physical movement of our limbs to create muscular action, plus using coordination and strength to move our muscles and skeletal joints around with an element of skill. This can be for are oth

Primary topic: Back and Neck Pain

Back and Neck Pain

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By Gail McGonigalSep 23, 20111 topic

What Makes Ergonomic Chairs Ergonomic?

Ergonomic chairs are designed for performing productive tasks in comfort throughout the day. They are not chairs for 'lounging' in, unless you are resting from your work activity. Ergonomic chairs are designed for performing purposeful activity, which may be prolonged, as in computer word processing. Whatever the task you want to do in the chair, your needs are comfort, safety and a supportive sitting posture; that will sustain your sitting posture for as long you need. It

Primary topic: Fitness and Exercise

Fitness and Exercise

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