Ragnar Viir

Dr Ragnar Viir was born in 1943 in Tartu, Estonia, and graduated from the University of Tartu in 1968. He is a founder of the Värska Spa in Estonia and has worked in various hospitals both in Estonia and Finland. In 2010, he defended his doctoral thesis, “The effects of different body positions and of water immersion on the mechanical characteristics of passive skeletal muscle”, at the University of Tartu. His main research interests include aspects of human lifelong interaction with gravity.

Personal health and fitness: The time for uprising is here

Ragnar Viir / February 12, 2018

There is a worldwide epidemic of sedentarism – in countries throughout the world, particularly in the developed nations, we simply spend too much time sitting and not enough time on our feet; Dr Ragnar Viir calls Estonians to rise up. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall – […]

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