639 muscles form the “motors” of our body.

424 of them are involved in support motor functions and roughly 150 small and minute muscles perform stabilisation and movement in the back. As work is distributed among the back muscles, problems are rare if sufficient natural movement is performed. If movement is prevented, leaving only posture (i.e. restrained movement), Mother Nature’s sophisticated system becomes overwhelmed.

Our muscles are controlled by the nervous system, which makes use of information from countless movement receptors, the eyes, balance, the sense of taste and more to ideally develop automated programmes.

The advantage of such programmes is that they run at a subconscious level, automatically, and the brain requires much less energy to control them. The drawback is that even unphysiological programmes are activated if they have been trained for long enough. This explains the large number of back complaints that often affect people who spend a lot of time sitting in particular.

The back muscles have a “great design”,

as three superimposed and coordinated layers of muscle perform a wide range of tasks:

• Stabilisation
• Bending and stretching
• Rotation
• Coordination

Each layer is structured in such a way as to be able to perform its task perfectly. However, this is dependent on our leading a natural lifestyle as was programmed into our genetic code millions of years ago. Unfortunately, sitting in front of a screen had not been invented back then.

The neck also causes problems for many people.

In general, we spend far too much time in front of screens, mostly in a sitting position, and this causes us to tense our muscles isometrically, i.e. without movement. Over time, the muscles start to suffer from a lack of circulation and metabolic waste products can no longer be removed. The result? Pain and tension, and in many cases these are chronic.

The human body is fundamentally not designed for this type of posture. If your job involves lots of time spent in front of the computer, however, the only solution is regular movement of the neck and relief provided by a neck support.

In the section on ergonomics etc. you can find useful tips and a few small, but highly effective, exercises for this problem.

The spine is the principle load-bearing structure of our body and accordingly, it has many jobs to do: stabilisation, maintaining an upright body posture and movement of the torso. The bending, stretching and rotation of the many individual vertebral bodies is what makes the backbone so immensely flexible. Furthermore, the bone structure provides excellent protection of the nerves, which are vital for life.

The core and load-bearing foundation of the BIOSWING swinging mechanism forms a perfectly sophisticated element which also has a variety of functions:

On the one hand imparting stability (thanks to the pendulum principle), and on the other, extremely sensitive in its responses, so even microimpulses can be reflected and with damping that is perfectly suited to the natural frequencies of the particular application (therapy, training, sitting).

Problems always occur when the spine is chronically overstrained and an acute lack of movement prevents the physiological nourishment of the spinal discs. This causes the spinal discs to lose their natural elasticity, making them brittle, and if stability is lacking – caused by too little movement and too much support – the risk of a slipped disc increases from one year to the next.

The foundation of a healthy spine is sufficient movement, as this ensures that sufficient fluid passes through the spinal discs and that the surrounding muscles remain stable.

What a great feeling: to know that the training device trains the natural, highly complex coordination of movement!