Hi there. How are you? I hope you're doing great. Welcome to my post, which is the second participation post for the LPUD initiative! I've also shared health & HIVE titbits.

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LEO Power-Up Day

There are established monthly power-up days on HIVE, including HPUD (the first of every month), CPUD (the 10th of every month), LPUD (the 15th of every month), and BPUD (the 20th of every month). I participate in all of these power-up initiatives. Today is July 15th, and I am going to start participating in LPUD. Hence, it's my first ever LPUD participation! Yay!

TBH, I am not quite active in the LEO verse. Hence, my LEO wallet isn't worth mentioning. I post some threads sometimes, not every day. I made a handful of long posts from the Inleo front-end. As a result, my author rewards in LEO are almost nil. Not having a big stake, the same goes for the curation rewards!

So, how did I get the $LEO I am going to power-up today? I was determined to participate in this month's LPUD. Hence, I bought all 150 $LEO from the marketplace! I am planning to acquire a minimum of $LEO every month in the same manner so that I can keep participating in this monthly event!

Here is the proof of powering up 150 $LEO!!

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Health Titbit

Shoulder pain

Shoulder joint pain is one of the common problems with which patients visit a doctor. If there is a history of trauma, it’s easy to reach the diagnosis. Without a trauma, it’s quite challenging to reach a diagnosis for shoulder pain.

Around 80% of non-traumatic shoulder pain is due to problems in the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments, rather than actual joint arthritis. We can have an idea about the cause with a simple technique. Suppose a patient feels pain when moving his affected shoulder joint (called active movement) himself/herself. If the pain gets relieved when the same movements are made with help (someone supports the affected limb and moves the joint; it’s called passive movement), the pain is due to the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments.

Frozen shoulders are another common cause of shoulder pain. Here, both active and passive movements are somewhat restricted. However, an X-ray shows no evidence of arthritis. Diabetes often leads to frozen shoulders.

An NSAID painkiller, rest, application of ice, and physical therapy are often sufficient for shoulder pain. However, in some cases, a course of steroids, special medicines called DMARDs, injection into the joint, surgery, etc, are required.

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HIVE Titbit

Ecency Leaderboard Challenge

Every Monday, Melinda, on behalf of Ecency, rewards five random users from the top 50 on the Ecency Leaderboard! Each selected user receives 4 HIVE and 500 Ecency points. Any active Ecency user can participate. The only requirement is to maintain a position in the top 50 by staying engaged through posting, commenting, or upvoting via the Ecency mobile app or web browser.

For more information, you can check out the latest post regarding this initiative.

Additionally, several generous sponsors provide personal gifts to random users selected by lucky numbers from the top 50 on the Ecency Leaderboard.

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Okay. That's all for today. Alhamdulillah, I am alive, healthy, and thriving. How about you?

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