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Those suffering from chronic neck pain can alleviate the symptoms on the way to full recovery if they adopt optimal posture and spinal alignment, according to a study. The study evaluated two widely-used corrective approaches to remedy chronic non-specific neck pain caused by forward head posture (FHP) and CBP rehabilitation and traditional exercise programs. "The CBP technique is a posture-correcting method that depends on stretching the viscous and plastic elements of the longitudinal ligament and intervertebral disks, in addition to effectively stretching the soft tissue through the entire neck area in the direction of normal head and neck postures," the...

Republicans are currently making noises about investigating the Democrats’ illegal and unprincipled acts. There are many targets, and it’s to be hoped that Republicans make good on their promises to expose Democrat wrongdoing. On January 3, when the 118th Congress convenes, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky) will take the House Oversight and Reform Committee chair. To that end, The Wall Street Journal published Comer’s promise to investigate the past two years of Democrat scandals resulting from “unchecked one-party rule.” In plain English, congressional Democrats placed partisan aggrandizement above the national interest. Rep. Comer’s op-ed piece was titled “Get Ready for Republican...

The Video at the bottom of the page was sent to me today and I want to say that I find it beautiful.What makes the video so good is that it inspires a spirituality for the server that includes some of the following encouragement and advisement: That the Mass is mystical, beyond mere human sight, and that the server must learn to be sensitive to what lives beyond ordinary perception and become more spiritually aware.In so doing he should lead others to greater reverence by the example of supreme awareness of the presence of God.He should also, by his reverence...

Posture is and must be absolute before me now in that as I am your pinnacle of attention all things fall away that are not of me or come through me alone , for I AM THAT I AM in you " predestined " and " Absolute " , so allow me to be and come to you in an absolution and I then shall become your filter to which all your words and life's song shall become " YES AND AMEN " in accordance to The Word of My Will That IS " JESUS " for he IS True...

Greg and Jennifer Willits along with the help of some of their Rosary Army troops have started producing a new video podcast called "The Catholic Show" as part of Fr. Roderick's Star Quest Production Network (SQPN). There is a higher quality version here.And this is the feed to subscribe to the show. Click below, for the actual program. Sit, Stand, Kneel

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, viewed as one of the few moderate Democrats in an increasingly polarized Senate, is running for re-election in two years, and even Republicans admit she's an overwhelming choice to keep the seat she first won in a 1992 special election. "You can probably call the result of this ... two years in advance,'' said Kevin Spillane, a GOP consultant. "There would have to be an event of 9/11 proportions to make her vulnerable.'' "She's going to be heavily favored,'' agreed Allen Hoffenblum, a Republican consultant whose California Target Book analyzes political races in the state. "I doubt...

Standing during the eucharistic prayer at Mass in U.S. dioceses is permitted "only on exceptional and extraordinary occasions ... and never on a regular basis," the U.S. bishops' Committee on Liturgy said in its latest newsletter. The committee's September newsletter, made public in mid-October, said "the only licit posture" during the eucharistic prayer is kneeling, unless Catholics "are prevented on occasion from kneeling due to 'health, lack of space, the large number of people present, or some other good reason.'" The newsletter was quoting from the General Instruction of the Roman Missal. The determination of what is a "good reason"...

In the wake of September 11, millions of Americans have taken comfort from the fact that a group of mature, experienced and generally quite competent individuals are in charge of the Nation's security at a time when we must wage a war on terrorism. Fresh evidence of how different are the policies and plans of the quot;adultsquot; running our government today from their immediate predecessors -- and the team they defeated in November 2000 -- was made public on Saturday when the Los Angeles Times published a sensationalized account of the classified Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). This study was...