Four-legged animals have it easy. As they walk along, their ribs hang off of their spine like clothes on a clothesline, the weight of their torso helping to stretch out the joints and ligaments of their spines. Even our ape-like ancestors, who...
Category - Ergonomics and Social Architecture
These posts cover optimizing human-environment interactions to improve health, discussing auditory and vision optimization, shoe and furniture design, and movement. It includes practical solutions like the Sprike app and kneeling stools to promote better posture and well-being through ergonomic practices
I have made something of a hobby trying to find out where the cell phone towers that surround me are. This is more of a challenge than it may initially appear, as they are often cleverly disguised. This post documents some of the more...
Should we, or should we not vaccinate our kids? Even getting the flu shot is controversial. In working with Autistic children and kids with other challenges, time and again I run into parents who point to the time when they began to notice...
When I started studying Deep Tissue Bodywork in 1983 the common perception in the U.S. was that therapeutic change couldn’t manifest through touch. Even Acupuncture at that time was commonly considered akin to witchcraft. Talk therapies...
The migration from Analog to Digital wave forms (DWF) was the precipitating ever of our move into our wireless society. DWF pack vastly more information into the same space as Analog waves do. We are in essence, participating in a global...
New Research suggests that chronic loneliness can cause cardiovascular restriction, compromised immune function and arouse the Fight or Flight response. It suggests that we have evolved a stress response to isolation to prevent us from...
Our lymph system is a circulatory system not unlike our vascular system with one major difference, it doesn’t have a pump(heart). Lymph is also a return-only network, the vascular equivalent of veins, and uses our arteries to bring lymph...
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.
If I could design a shoe with a 3" heel that looked great and made women look great that didn't trash their feet and wreck their postural dynamics - I would be rich. Here are some design considerations:
The configuration of our brains was established in an environment that had very little rhythmic activity, especially above several cycles per second. It is very unusual for a natural system to cycle more quickly than this. Therefore our brains...