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...standardized points, which experienced practitioners agree can help the majority of back-pain sufferers. A final group received the toothpick treatment. These patients were poked with toothpicks inserted through the acupuncture needle tube at the standard points - but unlike with traditional acupuncture, practitioners did not penetrate the patient's skin. Instead, they pricked and then twirled the toothpick to simulate a needle going...
Cherkin's findings raise at least two possible explanations. Since the sham procedure used the same acupuncture points as the legitimate therapy, there may be something about the stimulation of those points, even without skin penetration, that triggers a beneficial physiological reaction in the body and the nervous system, leading to pain relief. (This may be the mechanism behind acupressure, which involves pressing certain points on the body to alter physiological processes occurring deep inside organs.) Or the patients' improvement may be due simply to a powerful placebo effect, in which the mere belief that you are receiving...
...fabulously wealthy with a 20% market share," scoffs Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, President Ronald Reagan's political director. "In our business, you need 50% plus one." It's probably true that since 200,000 Pennsylvania Republicans have switched parties, Specter followed them to save his own political skin, but it's hard to see how the mass exodus bodes well for the GOP. You can't have a center-right coalition when you've said good riddance to the center...
Usually have an earthy sensuality, and a powerful sex drive. Considers sex very important for the consummation of love, so it’s never casual. They like to have it slow and steady, with formiddable endurance. Likes lots of caresses and skin-to-skin contact, before, during, and after sex. The touch of hand and body communicates love. They focus on the physical sensations so much that they may not move around much in bed. Eating and sex are two big pleasures of life, so dinner followed by sex makes a perfect evening...
Tender Spot: The neck area, as well as skin itself. Best Action Award: Tantric sex. They are the masters of marathon sessions and pure sensation...