Comfort Motion Global Adapts Healthy Seating Technology for Commercial Vehicle Market
Launched in automotive, CMG’s Healthy Seating Technology reduces driver fatigue and improves health and wellness
DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 10, 2019 – Comfort Motion Global, (CMG) today announced the company is working with a number of commercial vehicle suppliers and fleet owners to bring its Healthy Seating Technology to the commercial motor vehicle market.
“With the heightened government awareness on drowsy driving and driver fatigue, truckers are at the front line of attention based on their extended time on the road,” said Richard Ferguson, chief marketing officer, CMG. “Our scientifically proven Healthy Seating Technology is a powerful, proactive solution to back fatigue, discomfort and other negative impacts of prolonged sitting, and fits perfectly with the trucking industry’s increased emphasis on driver safety.”
Original Equipment Manufacturer Adoption
The new proprietary Healthy Seating Technology, recently adopted by Mercedes- Benz under their branding as Energizing Seat Kinetics on their memory-seat equipped GLE, GLS, A- and B-Class vehicles, reduces occupant fatigue and improves overall wellness and safety through automated, micro-adjustments of the driver and passenger seats.
Launched after a decade of biomechanical testing and medical research, CMG’s customizable algorithm, a first of its kind technology, can be programmed into any memory seat and can additionally actuate any other system in the seat such as lumbar support, bolsters, heating and cooling, and existing massage functions.
entum dui faucibus in. Egestas pretium aenean pharetra mgna ac placerat. Lacus viver equat ac felis donec et. Velit scelerisque in dictum non conseetur. Malesuada fames acturpis egestas maecenas phis mauris sit amet massa vitae.
Launch in Automotive Leads to Commercial Release
Dr. Paul Phipps, a noted Indianapolis-based chiropractor specializing in human performance biomechanics, developed Healthy Seating Technology after treating his long-time patients for chronic back pain associated with the cumulative effects of sitting, especially when driving frequently or for long distances.
“Working closely with professional athletes, helping them to create structural balance, increased flexibility and greater stability, I realized these same principles could be applied to helping improve driver wellness for those spending extended periods of time sitting in a vehicle,” said Phipps, chief medical officer and director of research and development, Comfort Motion Global. “Once we successfully launched in the automotive industry, we immediately turned our attention to the trucking industry for all the obvious reasons.”
Reducing fatigue-related accidents is a major priority for the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which has placed this initiative on its 2019-2020 NTSB ‘MOST WANTED LIST’. The list highlights safety issues identified from NTSB’s accident investigations to increase awareness about the issues and promotes recommended safety solutions. With an estimated 13 percent of commercial motor vehicle drivers having been considered to have been fatigued at the time of their crash, the NTSB has suggested that fatigue risk management programs, science-based regulations and individual responsibility as possible solutions to mitigate driver fatigue.
Automated seat adjustments redistribute the occupant’s weight in the seat, continuously transferring compressive and shear stresses to new and different tissues. With each small motion (1° or less), it transfers the workload in the spine and supporting muscles to a new area so that no one area does all the work. This allows the natural tissue recovery cycles to occur, improving circulation and decreasing tissue fatigue and discomfort.
About Comfort Motion Global
Comfort Motion Global, headquartered in Indianapolis, Ind., is a provider of proprietary Healthy Seating Technology that delivers a powerful, proactive solution that reduces back fatigue and improves health, wellness, alertness and counters the negative impacts of prolonged sitting. This driver wellness seating technology is scientifically and intuitively “good for you” and is adaptable to any industry where users have to remain seated for long periods of time. To learn more, visit Comfort Motion Global (www.comfortmotion.com).
