Lift chairs that will change your life!

We’ve been on the hunt for years to find a ‘lift chair and recliner’ that has all the latest technology and design to complement our modern home décor.  Most lift chairs look like they should be in nursing homes and so there has been a huge gap for functional designer furniture. We’re excited to announce the Lift & Rise range from Himolla in Germany.

Get excited about getting back to work

As we head back to work at the start of the new year, now is the perfect time to make changes that will reverberate through 2018. Make it the best year yet in terms of caring for your health and wellbeing. A few strategic tweaks to the environment – at home, work or school –  can boost your ability to concentrate, collaborate and achieve your goals, and benefit those around you too.

What is good seated posture?

Good seated posture depends on a chair design, which can preserve the natural, healthy curves of the spine.

These curves are present when we are standing but are lost when we sit on conventional chairs.

As we sit down our thighs form an angle of 90 degrees to our body. This means that the pelvis rolls back and the whole spine deforms into the ‘C’ shape we see when people are seated on con…

From the bottom up: Flat feet problems and how to resolve them

Feet are the stabilisers of the body. They are the foundation on which we stand. They are made up of 26 bones, and 100 different muscles from our toes to our ankles. We rely on them to carry our weight which is distributed by the angle of the arch. If the arch is fallen, at one stage of your life pain will be experienced in the foot and it likely to referred to other areas of the body,  especia…

Diagnosing back pain

There is a lot more to back pain than pulled muscles. Back pain is the fastest growing disability in the western world, affecting 1.8 million Australians, and incidence are only expected to rise. Appreciating the complexities of diagnosis can help you help your doctor and set you on the road to recovery sooner.