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1. Shoulder and neck pain, dizziness, and lightheadedness May be related to cerebral ischemia or vasomotor headaches (due to disturbances in the concentration of transmitters in the brain's blood vessels, causing severe headaches in the back of the neck, extending to the temples, accompanied by dizziness and nausea). . 2. Fatigue and headache This type of pain is often accompanied by headaches, facial pain. Sometimes it spreads to the neck, occipital area, and even the temples. Early treatment is needed to prevent persistent or persistent pain. In particular, when the pain is accompanied by scalp sensory disorders, fatigue, sleep disorders, electric shock-like properties or a tight feeling, the pain symptoms have become severe. 3. Shoulder pain and neck pain The cause of this neck and shoulder pain is often due to fatigue and stress. Every time you feel stressed, you have to "strain your head" to think of a solution. This causes the neck and shoulder area to become "tense". Furthermore, the neck is the only arterial road that carries nerve signals to all parts of the body, so this area and surrounding areas (shoulder and neck) will also be sensitive to attacks. more painful than other joints in the body 4. Pain in the left or right shoulder and neck When you wake up one morning and experience this symptom, immediately think about lying/sitting in the wrong position. You need to find out the distance from the computer, desk, car steering wheel... that you use every day. Remember if you have the habit of holding the phone on one shoulder while listening and taking notes, changing the height of your pillow or resting your head on a chair or bed for a few dozen minutes or more to watch TV? See details at: Shoulder pain (left - right): Causes, signs, symptoms and treatment 5. Shoulder and neck pain spreading down to the arms This symptom of neck pain, numbness in the limbs can occur due to cold exposure, difficulty in blood circulation to the neck and shoulders, but most are related to cervical spondylosis, cervical disc herniation, and spinal stenosis. ... The pain intensity will increase when the patient sits for a long time, walks a lot, sneezes or changes weather. 6. Pain accompanied by difficulty breathing When injury, incorrect posture, cervical spine disease, or disc herniation cause nerve compression, the patient may feel shortness of breath, chest spasms, shortness of breath, and sharp pain in the back. Shoulder and neck pain is often a symptom of disc herniation or cervical spondylosis Although the accompanying symptoms have different manifestations, in general, the most basic symptoms of neck and shoulder tension syndrome are still: Dull or severe pain in the neck and nape, a painful, painful feeling, sometimes like an electric shock. The patient may feel pain when pressing on the cervical spine. Some cases may be accompanied by muscle stiffness, numbness and pain spreading to the temples, ears or down the arms, forearms, and fingers. More severe is muscle weakness and muscle atrophy. Pain is mechanical in nature, meaning it increases when standing, walking, sitting for a long time, coughing, sneezing and decreases when resting. Pain can also increase after heavy activity, weather changes or depression or fatigue. Pain can be acute (sudden appearance) or chronic (dull, lasting) depending on the level of damage to the articular cartilage and subchondral bone. Unlike periarthritis of the shoulder joint, patients with shoulder and neck pain usually do not have limited joint movement, except in severe cases such as degeneration and osteoporosis causing multiple disc herniations, spinal stenosis or scoliosis. congenital spine. Because these diseases can cause complex sympathetic dystrophy in both one area (neck, waist) and neighboring areas (such as the shoulders and neck). Shoulder and neck pain that lasts for 1-2 days may be due to lying/sitting in the wrong position, 1-2 weeks may be due to stress, but don't be subjective when the pain lasts for weeks or months. Patients should go to a reputable bone and joint specialist if they suddenly experience severe shoulder and neck pain or moderate pain that lasts for several weeks. At reputable specialists, doctors will assess the level of shoulder and neck damage through the application of X-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and electromyography for the shoulder and spine areas. neck. At the same time, it is possible to localize and diagnose the cause of neck and shoulder pain, and take medical history through professional experience and clinical examination. Need to see a doctor when neck and shoulder pain lasts more than 2-3 weeks Causes of shoulder and neck pain Shoulder and neck pain comes from many causes: due to lying or sitting in the wrong position, due to excessive exercise, due to stress, due to weather and especially possibly due to pathology, congenital defects... In this case, it is necessary to confirm Determine the cause to find the right solution and treatment. 1. Mechanical factors Heavy labor or repetitive movements, injury, working or living habits in the wrong posture (sitting at the computer, sewing, driving, watching the phone, computer, TV, sleeping on one side a lot) ...) is the leading cause of shoulder and neck pain. Patients may experience symptoms of neck and shoulder pain when waking up early in the morning. This type of neck and shoulder pain can go away after a few days or can last for several weeks if the patient is unaware or due to the nature of the job, it requires continuous high-intensity work. 2. Pathological factors Cervical spine degeneration, cervical disc herniation, spinal stenosis, pulmonary apical tumor, congenital torticollis, deformities, inflammation, and neck injury can be the cause of persistent, long-term neck and shoulder pain. not out. These cases need to be monitored regularly because of the risk of surgery. Patients should see a doctor early when they have the following dangerous warning symptoms: numbness and pain spreading to the hand, muscle atrophy, hand weakness... 3. Stress factors What few people expect is that neck and shoulder pain can occur when working is stressful and often staying up late. While other joints hardly experience this situation. Because when the mind is stressed, the surrounding muscles and nerves such as the shoulders and neck are also tense. Furthermore, the neck - shoulders - nape is also the only "lifeline" that carries nerve impulses down to the organs, so they will be more sensitive and susceptible to pain than other parts of the body. can. 4. Weather factors Changing weather, low atmospheric pressure or sitting in front of a fan or air conditioner, being in the rain for a long time, or showering at night reduce the oxygen supply to muscle cells, causing ischemia in the muscles. This can lead to shoulder and neck tension syndrome. The shoulder and neck muscles are frequently active areas, so pain is inevitable. However, there are also some spontaneous cases, with no clear cause of shoulder and neck pain. These cases need to be monitored and examined early. Shoulder and neck injuries, if not improved promptly, will leave difficult-to-recover sequelae on the joints (such as bone spur formation, chronic joint pain, joint deformity, difficulty moving...). In particular, it will cause erosion of two important load-bearing components of the joint: articular cartilage and subchondral bone. Therefore, timely preventive measures are needed. When should people with neck and shoulder pain see a doctor? If the neck pain you feel is very severe and does not improve within a few days, or you experience excessive pain, numbness or radiating down to your hands or feet causing weakness in your limbs, see your doctor for an accurate diagnosis. Identify the cause as well as find ways to improve effectiveness. In addition, people with shoulder and neck pain that lasts for a long time or pain that greatly affects quality of life and mobility should also consult a doctor. Methods of treating neck and shoulder pain Shoulder and neck pain often originates from the inflammatory process, the cartilage tissue and subchondral bone of the cervical vertebrae are eroded. Therefore, to effectively reduce shoulder and neck pain, the first thing we need to do is focus on caring for and nourishing the cartilage and subchondral bone through the mechanism of inhibiting the formation of inflammatory substances with specialized essences. The specialized essences that prevent inflammation and support pain relief mentioned are Eggshell Membrane, Turmeric Root, Chondroitin Sulfate, Collagen Type 2, Collagen Peptide... in the new generation JEX . Thanks to the simultaneous impact of this group of nutrients, the inflammatory response is controlled, the cartilage and subchondral bone that make up the cervical spine are firmly protected, helping movements in the shoulders, nape, and neck take place smoothly and gently. gently and clearly relieves pain. New generation JEX contains natural nutrients that help prevent inflammation, increase cartilage and subchondral bone regeneration, thereby effectively reducing shoulder and neck pain. In addition to using specialized cartilage care products that contain anti-inflammatory essences and support pain relief from the inside like the new generation JEX , you also need to strictly follow your doctor's treatment regimen. Specifically, methods to improve shoulder and neck pain include: 1. Adjust your posture Patients need to be careful not to maintain one position for too long at the desk. When working with a computer, you should stop every 30 minutes to perform neck, shoulder and arm movements. You need to keep your neck straight and your back straight when doing anything (typing, driving a tailor...). Arms are bent at a 90-degree angle when typing to prevent shoulder fatigue. In particular, you should only sleep on a pillow about 10cm high. 2. Rest and reduce stress Get enough sleep 7-8 hours/day and sleep before 11pm, don't stay up late. Staying up late can increase neck and shoulder pain. 3. Nutrition Nutrition is not the main factor that can significantly reduce shoulder and neck pain. However, if you eat a lot of sweets, red meat or foods that cause the liver to filter more waste, such as foods high in fat, preservatives, etc., you may feel more severe pain. Therefore, instead of choosing these foods, you should eat lots of green vegetables, fruits, and light foods (low in fat) but ensure adequate nutrition every day. 4. Sports Patients should regularly exercise moderately (at least 30 minutes/day and 5 times/week). Apply movements in cervical spine exercises to increase endurance and increase the flexibility of the tendon, muscle and ligament system around the spine. Swimming is also a good therapy to help improve shoulder and neck pain. 5. Physical therapy To improve shoulder and neck pain, especially chronic shoulder and neck pain, do not ignore physical therapy methods such as heat or electrotherapy. Stretching the cervical spine or massaging the shoulders and neck properly is also very good for therapy. However, patients need to remember that they should not massage, acupressure or do vigorous exercise during the acute phase. If you do not have expertise in physical therapy, go to a physical therapy facility for safe and effective instructions. Combining therapy with yoga exercises to treat shoulder and neck pain is also an effective way to reduce symptoms of shoulder and neck pain. 6. Apply cold and hot compresses Hot and cold compresses are also one of the effective methods to help reduce pain and swelling in people with shoulder and neck pain. 7. Treatment of diseases Of course, to effectively improve shoulder and neck pain, you cannot help but actively treat cervical spondylosis, cervical spondylosis... at bone and joint specialists. Medical and surgical treatment of neck and shoulder pain: Types of pain relievers : Mainly two groups of prescription or over-the-counter medications. Non-prescription drugs include simple pain relievers (Paracetamol, Acetaminophen); Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (Aspirin, Ibuprofen); Skeletal muscle relaxant (Myonal helps relieve pain in the back of the neck after only 15 - 30 minutes). Prescription drugs include anti-inflammatory drugs such as steroids, corticosteroids, and glucosamine sulfate, which are pain relievers and cartilage supplements that need to be prescribed specific dosages by a specialist. Surgery : Some cases require surgical treatment such as nerve compression due to disc herniation, spinal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, etc. Shoulder and neck pain is not a serious disease if it only appears as normal aches and pains. After a period of adjustment and lifestyle changes, the symptoms will subside. However, if this symptom persists due to damage to the articular cartilage and subchondral bone, it can cause trouble and discomfort to the patient. In particular, people who work in the office will not be able to concentrate on work and will always be dominated by pain. Fear of pain weighs heavily on the entire body and mind, causing people with this symptom to always live in fatigue and worry. The more you worry, the stronger the shoulder and neck pain becomes. The distance when sitting at the computer is recommended by bone and joint experts Preventing neck and shoulder pain for each individual Preventing neck, shoulder and neck pain needs to start with those in the risk group. These risk groups include: 1. People who work keep the same position for a long time Office workers, workers (sewing, assembly of components), drivers... are susceptible to back pain, shoulder and neck pain due to work that requires a lot of sitting. Therefore, besides sitting in the correct posture, paying attention to relaxation in the middle of work..., people working in these professions should also eat on time, get enough nutrition and go to bed early so that their joints have time to rest and recover. Heavy workers are in the group of people susceptible to shoulder and neck pain 2. Elderly people In older people, articular cartilage and subchondral bone in joints tend to degenerate. Therefore, it is necessary to take care of joint cartilage regularly, and at the same time, exercise appropriately to avoid muscle stiffness that causes pain in the shoulders and neck or other joints. 3. People with bone and joint diseases When the body tries to cope with joint pain, it often tends to get tired and the shoulder and neck muscles will be the location that suffers the pain. Therefore, it is necessary to actively treat bone and joint diseases and maintain a relaxed and optimistic spirit so that the shoulders and neck are not affected. 4. People with depression Depressed people often fall into a state of nervousness and excessive worry. This causes neck muscles to tense and ache. When you live happily and healthily, your bones and joints will also be "happy and healthy". Take time to contemplate and relieve your sadness so that your joints are always in the best state of relaxation to prevent neck and shoulder pain . Along with adjusting posture and living and working habits, you should supplement with pain-relieving nutrients and take care of safe joint cartilage and subchondral bone found in the new generation JEX to prevent shoulder and neck pain.

Huawei is still out there making phones, even if it has been shunned by the US government and the US-aligned tech ecosystem. The latest phone has a new name: "Huawei Pura 70." While you wouldn't ever want to deal with the cobbled-together SoC or whatever is going on with Huawei's software, the "Ultra" model does have a cool party trick up its sleeve: a pop-out main camera lens. In the years before the smartphone took over all entry-level photography, there used to be a thing called a "point-and-shoot camera." This was a purpose-built device that only took photos, couldn't go on the Internet, and wouldn't let you watch the latest TikTok videos. The trademark feature of these devices was a retractable camera lens, where the front lens (there was only one!) would grow out of the front of the camera when you turned it on. This would give your camera better, longer lens geometry to work with when the camera was on, and would collapse down for easier storage when it was off. Huawei's latest phone is replicating that. The giant rear camera lens actually grows out of the phone somewhat, thanks to some complicated gearing inside the phone. It's only the tiniest few millimeters, but it's a start. Smartphone manufacturers often resist adding bigger lenses to their devices because they want to still have pocketable devices. A pop-up lens would give the camera engineers more room to work with while still maintaining pocketability. The retractable camera lens uses a 50MP, 1-inch sensor and apparently also has an adjustable aperture of F1.6~F4.0. There's no optical zoom (which could be a justification for the pop-out lens)—so it looks like the lens movement is just to get set up to the base lens configuration. (We're working from a machine-translated Chinese-language website, in our defense.) There are two other cameras in the rear triangle-shaped camera bump: a 40MP ultrawide and a 50MP 3.5x telephoto. Here's a good look at just how much this camera bump sticks out, it's huge! There is a lot going on here.  Huawei Here's a complicated gif about how this all works.  Huawei The front and back.  Huawei The back looks really nice with that leathery texture and an argyle pattern.  Huawei Colors! Green and brown are certainly choices.  Huawei A side view. Is that a flat screen?  Huawei Previous SlideNext Slide Huawei's spec sheet makes zero mention of the SoC. There is not even a name or model number—we're just left to assume that there must be an SoC in there somewhere. According to Geekbench uploads, it's called the "Kirin 9010," which sounds like a minor upgrade over Huawei's current chip. US sanctions mean Huawei is stuck attempting to build chips without the help of current state-of-the-art chip production tools and facilities from US-aligned countries. A lot has been made of these chips in the tech press—Huawei doesn't have access to new chip manufacturing equipment, can't get the newest designs from ARM, and can't have its designs made at the industry-leading chip fab, TSMC. The company has been relying on Chinese partner SMIC for fabrication, using the old machines from the pre-sanction era, and has kept on trucking with less competitive chips that seem frozen in time. Advertisement   Huawei, to its credit, hasn't hyped up its post-sanction chips that much (it's not even talking about this one!). In November 2020, before US sanctions had really taken hold, the company worked with Arm to create the Kirin 9000, a 5 nm SoC with four Cortex A77 CPUs and four Cortex A55 CPUs. Three years later, Huawei's first post-sanction chip was the modestly named "Kirin 9000s," a reportedly 7 nm chip that was scraped together with whatever technology Huawei could find. The general vibe you get from the model number change of 9000 to 9000s is "not much of an improvement," and the benchmarks have proven that to be true. The new chip in the Pura 70 is a "Kirin 9010" and is probably still 7 nm. So even Huawei is admitting it's not making much progress without the US-aligned chip ecosystem. Other specs include a whopping 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage on the "Ultra" model. There's a 6.8-inch, 120 Hz OLED with a 2844×1260 resolution, and the battery is 5200 mAh. The phone only has Wi-Fi 6e, not Wi-Fi 7, presumably thanks to Uncle Sam. All of these components are going to be from random, off-the-beaten-path manufacturers who are brave enough to go against the will of the US government, so who knows how well anything works. Anyway, we just wanted to write about the neat camera lens. It's only for sale in China starting today, with the Ultra model clocking in at 9,999 Yuan, or about $1,380. Correction: We updated this at 5:41pm to change the Kirin 9000 from 5 nm to 7 nm, so the switch to SMIC went backward one generation.