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CurrentPatrick is the co-founder and CEO.CoreChair is an innovative active sitting chair launched commercially in April 2015.After almost 8 years of intense product design and engineering, the result is an extremely high quality ergonomic / therapeutic chair for the office environment that we believe is the "antidote" to the "sitting disease".Inspired by the number of individuals who intuitively took an exercise ball to their office to introduce movement into their workday, Patrick set… Show more Patrick is the co-founder and CEO.CoreChair is an innovative active sitting chair launched commercially in April 2015.After almost 8 years of intense product design and engineering, the result is an extremely high quality ergonomic / therapeutic chair for the office environment that we believe is the "antidote" to the "sitting disease".Inspired by the number of individuals who intuitively took an exercise ball to their office to introduce movement into their workday, Patrick set out to invent a more appropriate office chair that included similar movement but added postural positioning that was a carry over expertise from his previous career designing seating solutions for persons dependent on wheelchairs for mobility.The development process included full kinematic studies by the University of Waterloo, physiological studies by the Mayo Clinic/ Arizona State University, Guelph University as well as Memorial University and ergonomic studies by Cornell University. Following and exceeding BIFMA certified durability and safety testing guidelines, intense engineering, almost two hundred of field trials and now thousands of happy CoreChair users, we are confident that this disruptive innovation has a clear and healthy place in the workplace. This design is very effective as it addresses back pain by way of improved sitting posture through pelvic positioning and mobility of the critical joints, hips, pelvis and spine. By way of encouraging movement through subtle NEAT activities as well as exercise opportunities while sitting at one's desk, this chair will effectively counter the sedentary effects of sitting still in traditional office chairs.CoreChair has encountered some initial skepticism from traditional practitioners , even with the evidenced based design, but as of Feb 2018 that has begun to change as more and more people are sharing their pleasure with the outcome of sitting active on a CoreChair. Show less
