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Yuexihuachen Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Migraine

Headache clinics, courses in holistic wellbeing, new diets and even meditation for migraine relief are being sought by sufferers.

1. the courses in holistic wellbing mention about the health of the whole body or not? what's the exact meaning?

2. new diets are new style of diets ?

3. meditation for migraine relief is a kind of meditation which can help to relief migraine?

In addition, hospitals and medical practitioners are trailing new approaches to managing this common and debilitation illness.

what is the "trailing" mean in this context.

THANKS.
  

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1. "holistic wellbeing" refers to the health of the body and mind as a whole. 2.

  • 1.
  • "holistic wellbeing" refers to the health of the body and mind as a whole.
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  • Yes.
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1. "holistic wellbeing" refers to the health of the body and mind as a whole.

2. Yes.

3. Yes (supposedly).

Are you sure it's "trailing" and not "trialing"? ("debilitation" should be "debilitating", which increases my suspicion that the sentence has suffered from transcription errors.)
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1 Thank you for answering the question above.

2 i'm sure it is "trailing" from the original article. so what's the meaning if it is the one. Why do you think it should be trialing?

3 and sorry, i'v typed wrong for "debilitation" , it should be debilitating.
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Thanks for answering the question above.

I'm sure it is the word "trailing", but i thought it should be "trialing"

and i'm sorry for debilitation, i indeed typed it wrong, it should be "debilitating" so what's the meaning for debilitating illness? i thought the meaning is the illness makes body getting weak?
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" hospitals and medical practitioners are trailing new approaches to managing this common and debilitation illness".

Trailing - means pacing behind the latest methods in managing (or treating) migraine.

In sports, if the visiting team is trailing by two scores in basketball, the home team is leading by 4.
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yuexihuachen2 i'm sure it is "trailing" from the original article. so what's the meaning if it is the one. Why do you think it should be trialing?
"trialing" would mean "conducting trials of (the new treatments)". It seemed a more likely word to me.

I'm afraid I'm not sure what they mean by "trailing" here. When I originally read it, I thought it m
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yuexihuacheni indeed typed it wrong, it should be "debilitating" so what's the meaning for debilitating illness? i thought the meaning is the illness makes body getting weak?
That's right. A "debilitating illness" is one that causes the body to become weak or which saps one's energy and vitality. "debilitating" here is an adjective, while "debilitat

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