The slanted and firm materials improve your healthy life!
A solution to reduce your back problems
Multi-Rest Cushion
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Health Mat Genki-kun TM
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Helps avoid burden on you back,
Relieve fatigue in your legs or feet,
Keeps you sit as the same way you stand
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Benefits
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Health Mat Genki-kun helps you:
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- Reduces back pains
- Helps you correct your posture
- Makes your back muscles spread
- Reduces fatigue from sitting long hours
- Reduces stiff shoulders
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Recommended for
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- Those with bad posture
- Those with rounded back
- Those with back and lower back pain
- Those with tummy bulge
- Those with wheel chair
- Those working long hours sitting
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Why to Use
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While standing, the backbone roughly shapes like the alphabet S, and the
pelvis keeps the angle suitable for standing. Due to this nature, you can't
keep the ideal angle while sitting unless you intentionally try to keep
the right posture for your pelvis. As a result, the pelvis gets misaligned,
and it makes difficult to maintain the S-curve. You might end up with your
body slouching. Figure E indicates such state. If it continues, sitting
may easily lead to load twice as much weight on your back as standing.
For this reason, this cushion was developed to make the sitting posture
as the same as standing without moving the backbone angle, etc. The cushion
front is made to slant 3 to 6-degree, and leads to disperse the body weight
evenly while sitting (Fig. D). At the same time, this angle naturally leads
you to correct your posture while keeping your pelvis in the right position
(Fig. F). In addition, you can use it as a backrest to fulfill the space
between your back (especially sacrum) and the chair, keep holding it, and
reduce the strains on your back (Fig. G & H).
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Fig. F |
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Fig. H |
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How to Use
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1. As a Seat Cushion
(1) If you use it on a chair, set your chair 3-5cm lower than usual.
(2) Place the thin part at front and the zipper side back if you
use as a seat.
2. As a Backrest
Place the zipper side down.
3. Lying down on the floor with Health Mat Genki-kunTM
Health Mat Genki-kunTM will help reduce your back pain.
Note: Do not exceed 10 minutes in use.
Lay on the back with the Health Mat Genki-kunTM. The thinner side comes
to the upper part of sacrum as shown in the picture below. |
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| NOTE: The angle is very important. Follow the pictures above. Also keep
in mind that you use no more than 10 minutes in this position. |
4. Other ways to use it
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| With a car seat reclined |
With a car seat |
You can kick back and relax.
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You can lay back with your back stabled.
Useful for long-hour driving
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| Laying on the side |
Laying on the back |
Reduces strains on your neck
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Helps correct rounded back
Reduces tiredness from sleeping
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Specifications
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| Size: |
40 x 38 x 6 cm (16 x 15.2 x 2.4 in.) |
| Weight: |
290 g (9.7 oz.) |
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CAUTIONS
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- Use as directed and do not use it for other purposes than as described.
- Do not exceed 10 minutes if you use while lying on it.
- Stop using it if you feel pain to your back.
- Keep away from fire.
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About Back
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Why do more than a half of people have back problems?
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Medical Data in relation to Burdens on the Back
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| The waist plays a valuable role to combine the upper and lower bodies.
According to the medical data of comparing ratio for burdens on the back
under various conditions, the laying on the floor gets down to 0.2 (considering
the gravity of standing position as 1). It scales 1.4 when you sit in good
posture and takes 1.4 times more than standing. When you sit with faulty
posture, it scales up to 1.9, and takes approximately twice as much as
standing and 10 times as much as in lying down. |
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Man spends his 1/3 of the day sleeping, another 1/3 standing, and the rest
sitting. Judging from the data above, Man has to pay more attention for
sitting in order to maintain good health.
Over the years, the number of hours spending in front of the desk has been
increasing. Especially, people working with computer spend long hours sitting.
It might depend on types of desk work. However, the more and longer hours
you concentrate, the more muscle strains and congestions you get. In addition,
if you have chronic back pain, stiff shoulders, and poor circulation, these
problems becomes even more serious. |
6-degree forward sloping in sitting leads to the same backbone positioned
as in standing
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Health Mat Genki-kunTM is a multi-rest cushion which has 6-degree anteversion
itself (Fig. A), and it can be used with almost any kinds of chairs. It
can be used as a car seat backrest or with wheel chairs, and as in other
ways as well.
Ideally, it should be slanted 3 to 6 degrees; however, our product is 6-degree
anteverted. This is because most chairs in the market are averaging 2 to
3-degree retroverted (Fig. B), and our product inclines 6 degrees so that
it can keep at least more than 3 degrees of inclination (Fig. C). This
forward sloping can make the sitting posture as close to standing posture,
especially around the sacrum area.
Also, it can keep 6 degrees placing directly on the floor. In order to
keep this angle efficiently, we have used the very flexible materials with
high elasticity, and the special polyethylene foam which doesn't easily
get out of shape. Also we trimmed its weight down to 290g. |
| 6-degree forward sloping |
Regular chair |
with 2-3 degrees backward sloping |
Fig. A |
Fig. B |
Fig. C |
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