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...Neurology that patients with longstanding lower-back pain who receive Botox injections are three times as likely as those who get injected with a saline solution to report less pain and less difficulty walking, sitting and exercising. The shots, five in all, not only eased muscle spasms along the spine--which might be expected, given Botox's known muscle-relaxing effects--but somehow also quieted the nerve firings that cause pain. Unfortunately, the effects wear off after about three months...
...every season: A cast of 16 ordinary money-hunters and exposure-seekers who find out what it's like to want to be stranded on a desert island, and the possibility of one of them - maybe a nurse and mother of two with a sweet smile, a steel spine and a mortgage - will win a million bucks...
...pushing up the security forces' overall strength in Aceh to 37,000. The military is gearing up for what it has termed "limited operations," which Acehnese fear will be an all-out assault on GAM's military and political infrastructure, aimed at driving it back into the province's spine of jungled hills. The French aid organization MEdecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), not known for faintheartedness, pulled out of Aceh earlier this month. Says the local head of another foreign aid agency: "I doubt we'd be targeted by either side. Our biggest fear is being caught...
...should do the posture") and with others ("How can you compare yourself to your neighbor? You don't have the same body!"). Her monologue becomes a mantra, returning my oft-wandering focus back to the pose I'm attempting. Where is my center of balance? Can I feel my spine stretch if I imagine my head and tailbone pulling in opposite directions? How does my alignment shift when I turn my foot three degrees to the right...
...stimulate the release of so-called Kundalini energy. --Viniyoga This is the most highly customized form of yoga. Viniyoga teachers cater stretching postures to individual student needs and abilities. Function is stressed over form, with an emphasis on integrating the flow of the breath with the movement of the spine...