Steve Jobs’s goal, in a nutshell, was building beautiful products that made people’s lives better and easier. He totally succeeded in that endeavor, his groundbreaking products having changed the lives of billions of people worldwide for the better. When a product addresses a human want that cannot be ignored and when that want is shared by a relatively high percentage of the population, the demand just naturally appears. Of all modern man’s common—and rather vexing— problems is the back pain. Whether accidental or chronic , back pain is ubiquitous in modern day’s life as we tend to spend a regrettably long time sitting. Some 540 million people worldwide suffer from back pain at any one time, and 8 out of 10 Americans have suffered from it in their lifetime; such is the painful statistics. Nature has designed our back in a way that it is supposed to move freely so that the vertebrae do not rub together. Long sitting, however, causes significant changes to the spine leading to chronic pain as discs lose their cushioning.
There are thousands of products that address this condition just as the overall consumer plenty allows us to cater to each and every whim and bodily problem before it requires serious medical attention. As we see from how nature has created us, cushioning those discs will help the half-a-billion back pain sufferers, and many companies have made it their goal to alleviate the suffering.
In 2015, Travis Killian co-founded Upper Echelon Products, a company that, among dozens of other life-changing products, brings to the market Memory Foam Products that reduce pain in various body parts, including their best-selling seat cushion. The seat cushion has received close to 100,000 customer reviews on Amazon, an impressive accolade by any measure. We sat down with Travis to pick his brain about his motivation and in what way UEP memory foam products help people.
Q: Manufacturing products that ease pain and improve the quality of life must be rather satisfying for you as the founder of the company. What do you feel reading reviews?
A: Reading reviews gives me a lot of joy. I have read about people who were in debilitating back pain that can now provide relief they never had before with a simple product.
Q: What makes the seat so comfortable and spine pain-relieving?
A: The way the seat cushion is designed it can be used in any sitting position, whether driving or working in the office or at home. The seat is manufactured from 100-percent premium memory foam that adapts to the body shape and provides maximum support. Even orthopedic doctors recommend the seat as it offers instant back and leg pain relief.
Q: Looks like pain relief affects all aspects of life, so in fact your product is a panacea that impoves the overall quality of life.
A: I agree, and I feel good putting a product in the world that helps chronic pain sufferers. Chronic pain leaks over to all aspects of life — your performance, how you treat others, how you cope with the pain, and your overall happiness. If I can help provide even a little bit of relief for these sufferers with a product that will last many years and is extremely affordable, then it makes me feel like I’m making the world a slightly better place.
Memory Foam Seats are just a fraction of Upper Echelon’s line-up that includes high-quality wind-defying Repel umbrellas, an ultrasonic humidifier, an automatic soap dispenser, various french press coffee makers, essential oil diffusers and essential oils, a wine decanter, and much more.
Please visit Upper Echelon Products website to shop for “simple solutions to complex problems” and stop chronic pain from leaking over many aspects of your life.
