Your PHONE is slowly KILLING YOU Medical boffins have codified two new gadget-derived diseases. The new “Digitillnesses” are known as “text neck” and “telepressure”. The former, as detailed [PDF] by Kenneth Hansraj MD, chief of spine surgery at New York Spine Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, results from the fact that looking down at a smartphone puts …
Again, the remedy is simple: don't stress about rapid response to email and, if you're a manager, let it be known that rapid responses to email aren't required. Especially outside working hours.
We used to call this the CrackBerry Syndrome. When the CrackBerry came out, the "I will respond immediately" proved so addictive that people could not live without it - I was seeing people on flights mindlessly fiddling with the control wheel on their CrackBerry just to continue the always-on feeling. The funniest part was our new director of Sales and Marketing at the time. We got a 2am priority 1 emergency call - "EMAIL IS NOT WORKING!!!". Well, what happened was that we deployed a new version of the antispam system so his "crotch area" stopped being stimulated every 10 minutes by the CrackBerry in his pocket or so so he panicked. As a result I had to adjust for him personally the SpamAssassin pass score down to under 5 to keep the stimulation levels.
All I can say - some people need a life.
HAHAHAHAHA
You owe me a new keyboard!
On the flip side, wonder if all the craplooza about "dangerous WiFi" is actually a scam to get people to use fiber instead, given that ISPs are noticing a drop in usage because people are using public access points and not their (slow) home internet.
Also occurs to me that "electromagnetic hyperasshativity" or "EASY" is actually a scam to avoid work and/or get "free" medically approved time off because people can't be bothered to work.
In which case a simple test would be a handheld "Death Ray" with blinkenlights and a convincing looking waveguide and emitter to see if the thus afflicted drop like stones when zapped.
If so then cut their benefits, sign afflicted up for a 3 month stay in psychotherapy and CBT, simplez!
Judging by the number of search returns on Google I start to wonder if the scare pages should be replaced by "Correlation does not prove causation" in 72 point BOLD font and a link to a psychology site.
The flaw in your observation is the audience (and people can call me a snob if you like). Not everybody reads books regularly.
People who read books regularly tend to have been reading books for most of their lives, and will have developed the correct muscle structure to handle the changed force angles, a structure that developed through childhood as their bodies morphed to adulthood.
Smartphones are now being used for several hours per day by people who haven't picked up a book in 20-30 years.
"Books, often requiring the same head postures, never seem to have had the same effect."
Or drinking a cup of tea, or eating a sandwich, or just examining something interesting that you've picked up for a closer look.
Funny, when it's done to accommodate something new, it's "undue stress", but when you do the same activity for old fashioned reasons, it's "exercise, and you need to do more of it!"
I have a memory that people used to talk how mobile phones were bad for your health due to the radio waves going through your brain… And the single study "supporting" this view that existed at a time was a study from the 1980s showing that people who owned a mobile phone were more stressed than others.
There might have been more studies since then, but I haven't heard of it. People still worry about having a cell phone tower near their house, though.
There have been a lot of studies and presentations by private and state groups which have not been published in the mainstream media, where it is the microwave pulses which damage cells, not heating, including cancer by where a mobile was held for long periods. The effects near mobile masts have literally felt shocking for some, especially for mobile masts placed close to residential rooms on top of buildings.
I keep my mobile phone several cm away from my body in a back pack or on a table and always use a Bluetooth headphone with microphone for calls, but mostly have it in aircraft mode, to limit exposure.
"Is that not strapping a wireless antenna to the side of your head or are bluetooth radio waves less damaging than those from the phone?"
Well the bluetooth headset is very much lower power than the phone esp. when the phone is transmitting in a poor signal area or inside a vehicle.
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There have been a lot of studies and presentations by private and state groups which have not been published in the mainstream media, where it is the microwave pulses which damage cells, not heating, including cancer by where a mobile was held for long periods.
[citation needed] and meetings by state-funded idiots and neurotic get-togethers don't count.
Also:
microwave pulses which damage cells
Not understanding anything about carrier frequencies and mistaking "pulses" for some force-applying magic stuff FAIL.
...then they should phone me. Equally, if I want a quick response, I'll phone. I mean, that's what a phone (smart or otherwise) is for, isn't it?
* Of course, in this day and age much communication seems to be about dishing out hassle to other people just to deliberately irritate them so that the 'disher' can feel smug about being 'in authority'. Actually communicating for the purposes of getting a job done seems to have become somewhat rare.
“As the head tilts forward the forces seen by the neck surges to 27 pounds at 15 degrees, 40 pounds at 30 degrees, 49 pounds at 45 degrees and 60 pounds at 60 degrees,” Hansraj writes.
Having studied astronomy and physics, let me assert:
The scientific unit of force is NOT pounds!!
If you do not use SI units in science writing at least have the decency to convert to more accepted units like the Norris (so moving from 1.2 Norris to 2.67 Norris).
How can you say they aren't scientific? They enter the symptoms into their iPad and it tells them what the problem is, how to treat it and write you a prescription for the most expensive appropriate pharmacological remedy just like the nice sales rep told them to do. If that doesn't work they move to the second problem shown on the iPad and give you a piece of paper for a different medication. They proceed likewise until either you are either cured or dead but they test every single possible problem the iPad app came up with all scienterrorific like.
They enter the symptoms into their iPad and it tells them what the problem is, how to treat it and write you a prescription
"Well, don't want to sound like a dick or nothin', but, ah... it says on your chart that you're fucked up. Ah, you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded"
I'm going to have to go and watch that again now...
Vic.
You must be in the European state of UK where they use daft French measurement units that are literally twice as inaccurate, cost an inordinate amount of money to convert to, have no return on investment and have no redeeming purpose except to leave more liquids of all kinds for the people still using the antiquated "English" measurements because 1 US gallon of gasoline is still less expensive than 4 Liters of your "petrol" or beer. BTW, we actually have decent beer here we just prefer it colder and won't send it to you mincing limey arsewipes.
Also, momentum is slug fps (US) or Newtons/sec in EU and the UK; arguably Fig Newtons, if hit with a sack of figs. It wasn't so very long ago (historically) that I was being coached on farthing's, ha'pennies, tuppence, thruppence and the like. And weight in stones.
The scientific unit of force is NOT pounds!!
Yes, but this is not a study aimed at the scientifically-literate.
The giveaway, to my mind, is the values quoted - 60 pounds at 60 degrees? That implies a head weight of nearly 70 pounds, which is getting on for half my body weight. And I'm no racing snake these days...
Of course, these might be instantaneous forces, rather than static loading - in which case, it's surely the act of addressing your phone like you're at the Headbanger's Ball that is to blame, rather than the phone use.
Vic.
Why were we not warned as schoolchildren that we were reading too much with books on a table or desk? Or writing there? Shall our parents, school teachers, and headmasters or school principals expect lawsuits? Is this now an officially recognized occupational health hazard that will have everyone writing and typing at eye level? Will the next warning add bursitis and shoulder injury?
http://www.ukessays.com/essays/health-and-social-care/shoulder-pain-among-office-workers-health-and-social-care-essay.php
Having worked in offices all my life and on computers since they first arrived in the good ole US of A, I can honestly say that I have had this problem for going on 30 years. Nowt (nothing to you Americans still over there) to do with texting/emailing/anything-else-you-cand-do-on-your-appendage, just poor posture, PP&S.
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