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Best Smart Devices for Health and Wellness

Caring for your health and wellbeing has its challenges. Some days are simply better than others when it comes to making healthy choices, whether it’s going to bed on time, remembering to maintain proper posture, or being more conscious of our stress levels. Countless aspects of our wellbeing require our attention so we can be more mindful of how we live.

Thankfully, innovative solutions exist to help us make health and wellness not just easier, but better integrated into our lives so we can enhance our overall sense of wellbeing.

Use Wellness Devices for Healthy Living

Some people argue that technology has negative impacts on our wellbeing, such as promoting sedentary living and social isolation. While that may be true, when used to our advantage, technology can actually contribute a great deal to improving our wellbeing. Today, health monitoring devices and gadgets are available to the average consumer, empowering health-conscious people to take charge of their own wellbeing.

Below we’ll explore some of the unique smart gadgets and apps for wellness and healthy living. We’ll look at how these products work and what they can do to improve your current standard of wellbeing. These devices address different health aspects, from pain management and posture training to sleep quality and mindfulness.

No matter what area of your health you’re trying to improve, there’s no doubt an app or device available to help.

Curable for Chronic Pain

Living with chronic pain is not only physically debilitating, but it can be emotionally and psychologically harmful as well. A growing body of research is showing the link between the brain and chronic pain and using mindfulness as a solution. In response to these findings, a Chicago-based startup has developed Curable, a smartphone app for managing chronic pain through mindfulness.

The app takes users through a program for understanding the neuroscience behind pain, how it connects the brain and body, and how to gain better control over your pain. Through guided meditations, visualizations and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) exercises, Curable users can bring greater awareness to their pain, ultimately providing relief over the long-term.

Curable is available for iOS and Android.

UPRIGHT GO Posture Trainer

Poor posture due to daily desk work is a chronic issue today. Many people needlessly suffer from back, neck, shoulder and hip pain as well as sciatica and other related health problems because of slouched posture. But remembering to keep your spine aligned can be challenging, especially when you’ve developed a habit of hunching.

The UPRIGHT GO Posture Trainer is a wearable device that adheres to your back and monitors your posture. Whenever you slouch, the UPRIGHT GO gently vibrates, alerting you that it’s time to correct your posture. As a smart device, it tracks your progress in an app, helping you to build the habit of better posture over time.

Learn more about how UPRIGHT GO works.

Netatmo Healthy Home Coach

Our surrounding environment has an impact on our day-to-day health and wellbeing. Indoor air quality, temperature, humidity and noise levels all contribute to our comfort levels. When these are in harmony, we’re more productive and energized and have a greater sense of wellbeing. But how do you know if all these environmental factors are at optimal levels for human health?

Enter the Netatmo Healthy Home Coach. A smart indoor air quality monitor, Netatmo monitors the indoor air quality of your home or office, so you know what to adjust to create a healthier environment. It has four precise sensors that monitor air quality, humidity, noise and temperature levels and tells you the optimal levels of each of these, day or night.

Learn more about creating a healthier living environment with the Netatmo Healthy Home Coach.

Philips Somneo Sleep and Wake-Up Light

Just as indoor air quality, temperature and noise affect our wellbeing, so too does lighting. The human body and its emotional, mental and physical states are tied to circadian rhythms—natural behavioral cycles that follow light and darkness. These biological clocks determine our responses to light, for example, becoming more awake and active during sunrise and become more relaxed and tired by sunset.

The Philips Somneo Sleep and Wake-Up Light simulates sunrises and sunsets to help you wake up and fall asleep in a more natural way. During wake-up, the Somneo slowly and gradually fills your room with warm, yellow light—just as the sun would. At night, the Somneo gradually decreases light with the option of guiding you to sleep with deep breathing exercises.

Wake-up lights like Philips’ Somneo can be especially beneficial for people who suffer from seasonal affective disorder. Getting ample light exposure early in the morning has shown to help alleviate depression symptoms.

Nokia Sleep Mattress Pad

A good night’s sleep is vital to our overall health and for preventing disease. Unfortunately, many people suffer throughout the night by tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep or stay asleep. What’s more is that many people aren’t even aware of the sleep behaviors preventing them from getting proper rest.

Innovative new sleep monitoring devices, like the newly released Nokia Sleep Mattress Pad, help troubled sleepers better understand their nighttime habits. The mattress pad tracks factors like sleep cycles and duration, disturbances and heart rate. It can even detect snoring. Each morning, the Sleep Mattress Pad will give you a sleep score so you can, over time, make the necessary shifts in your sleep routine to improve your rest quality.

Check out Nokia’s sleep study results to better understand why sleep is important to your health.

Pip Stress Management Device

Chronic stress is a leading contributor to many health issues, including heart disease, depression and anxiety. One of the most important issues facing our society today is how to manage stress levels to prevent premature aging and illness. Unfortunately, many people don’t have the tools necessary to monitor and reduce their daily stress levels. Biofeedback devices could be the solution many of us need to become better at stress management.

Pip is a stress management device that detects your electrodermal activity by testing the sweat produced by your fingertips. Pip is able to tell you about your stress levels based on the electrical activity it picks up from your fingers. With these results, you can gain better insight into your overall stress and relaxation levels so you know what needs to shift. Over time, you’ll develop more control over your stress and reduce the risk of associated health issues.

Learn more about Pip and how stress management leads to better health and wellbeing.

Choose Relax The Back for Better Wellness

Devices and gadgets can be great tools in helping achieve greater wellbeing. They make healthy living more accessible and allow us to install better habits so that wellness becomes part of our daily practice. Whether you’re looking to increase your physical activity, create a healthier living space, lower your stress, or improve your sleep quality, there’s certainly a solution for you.

Relax The Back can help you achieve greater wellbeing and live a healthier life with our variety of pain relief solutions. Improve your posture with our ergonomic furniture, get better sleep with our mattresses and sleep supports, or find deeper relaxation with our line of recliners. Whatever area of your life you’re looking to improve, choose Relax The Back for all your wellness needs.

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