NodStop LLC

Specialties

Nodstop is a travel headband that attaches over most any high backed seat (airplane, car, RV, train etc) and allows the user to sleep in an upright position while reducing snoring, drooling and allows the traveler to arrive at their destination neck ache free, well rested and ready for fun. Nodstop is compact and easy to pack in your purse or carry on. Nodstop Jr. (the headband attached to a cap) is also available for children for use in their car seats and strollers. Nodstop Special Needs is also available for use on wheelchair headrests, Geri/​feeding chairs and with extensions will fit up to and including recliner /​lift recliner chairs for anyone with weak neck muscles who can’t hold their heads up (ie. MS, ALS, CP, etc.) or anyone who falls asleep in their chairs. Nodstop is made in the USA and manufactured in Salem, OR. by Rockwest training who train and employ special needs individuals.

History

Established in 2007.

I invented Nodstop because I was unable to sleep on an airplane, hated neck pillows and I wanted to solve this problem for us all. The idea came to me on a late night flight and I went to the fabric store the next day and stitched one up by hand (I didn’t even own a sewing machine) and it worked! Nodstop was patented in 2008. Nodstop Jr. and Nodstop special needs came about because of the needs I saw for children and for the handicapped and the elderly who needed head support also for various reasons.

Meet the Business Owner

Jill E.

Business Owner

Jill Ehlers

Jill is the youngest of eleven children and a native Oregonian. She and Ken (a native Idahoan) have two children — Cherie, 33, and Nick, 30, and a sweet dog «Bud». Jill and Ken have been married 29 years.

In her early employment years Jill worked at Intel and other electronics manufacturers. In 1982 she obtained her real estate license and sold real estate until 1989.

In 1989 Jill and Ken moved to Ashland, OR to open a practice of optometry. She became the optician for the practice and was responsible for the management of the dispensary. At 46 years old Jill had not yet found her «Passion» in life (besides Ken) and found it when she discovered Healing Touch for Animals and began her career as an animal communicator and energy healer. To gain this training she had to travel all over the US and in the process, Nodstop was born. They say «necessity is the mother of invention» and that was very true in this case.