#167: Dr. Turner Osler: Designing Chairs to Make you Move

<p><strong>OVERVIEW: </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jason A. Duprat, Entrepreneur, Healthcare Practitioner and Host of the</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Healthcare Entrepreneur Academy</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">podcast speaks with Dr. Turner Osler,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">CEO and Founder of QOR360, a company specializing in active seating products for homes, offices and schools. Dr. Osler talks about how his chair designs help alleviate the problems caused by sitting. He also discusses his plans for educating a new generation on active sitting while supporting an ageing population with back pain.   </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:</strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Osler’s background includes being an academic trauma surgeon, as well as a research epidemiologist with more than 300 peer-reviewed publications. </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">He believes Western medicine profoundly doesn’t understand back pain. </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our health challenge is based on the fact we often slump in our chairs for eight hours. As a result, our biochemistry suffers greatly.  </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Osler believes sitting is a catastrophe and everything is better when we’re moving. </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">QOR360 is profoundly influencing public health through it’s chair designs requiring movement. </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Designs are based on research studying the effects of sitting and the absence of physical activities.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">To address scalability, QOR360 utilizes off-the-shelf office chair components. They  source materials and manage assembly in Vermont.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">The company’s target audience includes people who are into body mechanics and posture, and people with back pain.  </span></li> <li><span style="font-weight