Degenerative disease can occur when gravity is combined over time with unnatural slumping seated posture.  From the perspective of Osteopathic Medicine, poor seat design and postural habits have the potential to create extra mechanical leverage and ongoing compression, reduced circulation and cell death within body tissues.  When living in an unnaturally sedentary modern society, this becomes an origin story of degenerative disease and the possibility of future disability.

Over 10 years ago I was forced to design my own ergonomic posture cushion, to solve an agonising lower-back problem I was having when driving my car over long distances.  The seat had been designed for an average height Japanese person, and with little consideration for the needs of each unique individual.  With an accumulation of past injuries, poor car seat design became the final straw that (literally) broke the camel's back!   I wasn't able to find a lumbar support cushion that supported and opened the whole body (all the premium options available were focussing on the location of symptoms only) - my body was struggling because the car seat took away my body's ability to function as a cohesive and integrated whole.  I have since gone through the long process of testing, refining and manufacturing the wholistic Posture Friend and creating a preventative healthcare movement/relaxation program - to offer people a sitting solution that genuinely optimises their potential for health.  Professionally, I know all too well what can happen when bodies accumulate physical injuries and postural strain over time; and how closely interlinked body structure and function are to the experience of health, happiness and life fulfilment.