Practitioners of BDSM vary hugely in their perception of what activities are integral to BDSM, and some borderline activities ( light bondage, hot wax, blindfolds ) may be practiced by people identifying as " vanilla " ( i. e., not into BDSM ) – so inclusion in the community is usually dependent on self-proclaimed identification with the community.

Practitioners of alternative medicine may not be referred to with the " Dr " honorific in relation to providing the public with health care services.

Practitioners of glossolalia may disagree with linguistic researchers and claim that they are speaking human languages ( xenoglossia ).

Practitioners in the business of solar energy may use the unit Wh / m < sup > 2 </ sup > ( watt-hours per square meter ).

Practitioners usually prune a branch from an Oak, Hazel, or other tree, or may even buy wood from a hardware store, and then carve it and add decorations to personalize it ; however, one can also purchase ready-made wands.

In 1704, the House of Lords overturned a ruling of the Queen's Bench in the " Rose Case ", which effectively gave apothecaries the right to practice medicine, meaning that apothecaries may been viewed as forerunners of present-day General Practitioners.

Practitioners may use acupuncture needles made of various materials in combination with moxa, depending on the direction of supposed qi flow they wish to stimulate.

# Breath control: Practitioners may include a kiai or shout, to help tense the muscles at impact and distract or frighten the opponent.

Practitioners of the learned professions, such as doctors and lawyers, are rarely referred to as " sifu " or " shifu ", and some members of such professions may indeed find such a term of address disrespectful.

Practitioners in the Inner Healing Movement may not always have formal training in counseling or psychology.

Practitioners of inner healing techniques such as TPM frequently do not have formal training in psychology or counseling, although Fernando Garzon suggests that this in many cases may be beneficial, saying: "... it may serve people who might not get help otherwise, cannot afford professional therapy, do not wish to use insurance, or have access to counseling limited by managed care.

Practitioners who make frequent use of the CSE technique for labour analgesia may note unexpected benefits.

Practitioners of nonresistance may refuse to retaliate against an opponent or offer any form of self-defense.

Practitioners may also use tools such as crystal wands, which are placed near the receiver's body, or near a certain ' blocked ' chakra, or use to perform psychic surgery, normally conducted with laser quartz wands.

Practitioners of reality therapy may visit the past but never dwell on it.

Practitioners that lend their services full-time ( such as surgical PAs, SFAs, and RNFAs ) may specialize in areas such as orthopedic, cardiovascular, neurologic, genitourinary, general, obstetric & gynecologic, and oral maxillofacial surgery.

In such cases, individual paramedics may function in much the same manner as Physician assistants or Nurse Practitioners, assessing patients and making their own diagnoses, clinical judgments, and treatment decisions.

Practitioners may also use related measures such as the Keltner channels, or the related Stoller average range channels, which base their band widths on different measures of price volatility, such as the difference between daily high and low prices, rather than on standard deviation, which is a statistical measure more appropriate to normal distributions.

Practitioners believe that unresolved issues from alleged past lives may be the cause of their patients ' problems.

Practitioners sought redress from the leadership of the country by going to them and, " albeit very quietly and politely, making it clear that they would not be treated so shabbily.

Practitioners of this simple test also held that if a radiator coil had been used as a condenser, then there would be lead in the distillate, which would give a reddish flame.

Practitioners who come into CALL via the disciplines of computational linguistics, e. g. Natural Language Processing ( NLP ) and Human Language Technologies ( HLT ), tend to be more optimistic about the potential of error analysis by computer than those who come into CALL via language teaching.

Only practitioners certified by RISI can do Rolfing structural integration and be called " Rolfers " and " Rolf Movement Practitioners.

Practitioners of gay affirmative psychotherapy states that homosexuality or bisexuality is not a mental illness, and that embracing and affirming gay identity can be a key component to recovery from other mental illnesses or substance abuse.

Practitioners of small scale glassmaking and decorating as a hobby consider their work to be " art ", but professional glass artists and collectors do not, that is until such time that the person is sufficiently accomplished and widely recognised.

Practitioners should be able to provide consultation and collaborate with other members of the educational community and confidently make decisions based on empirical research.

Practitioners consider moxibustion to be especially effective in the treatment of chronic problems, " deficient conditions " ( weakness ), and gerontology.

Until it was amended in 1992 and later superseded by the Legal Profession Act in 2008, the Legal Practitioners Act 1893 provided for legal practitioners in Western Australia to be admitted and entitled to practise as " practitioners ".

Practitioners of ayurvedic medicine believe the body has seven " chakras ," which some claim are ' spiritual centers ', and which are held to be located along the spine.

Translators and interpreters who hold NAATI accreditation can be found through the online Practitioners Directory.

In 2006 he was awarded the inaugural Discovery Prize by the Royal College of General Practitioners as " a general practitioner who has captured the imagination of generations of GPs with his groundbreaking research ... His practice in Glyncorrwg, Wales, was the first in the UK to be recognised as a research practice, piloting many Medical Research Council studies.

Practitioners who offer advice that could influence a client's decision to purchase a financial product must meet minimum training requirements and be licensed by the ASIC.

Practitioners are called and professionally designated by the more accurate term otolaryngologists – head and neck surgeons, as specialists trained in otolaryngology are experts in surgical conditions of the head and neck.

Practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation technique ( TM ) claim that in its practice and results, the technique is distinguished from other types of meditation or self-development " by its naturalness, effortlessness and profound effectiveness ".

Practitioners of the Vajrayana need to abide by various tantric vows or samaya of behaviour.

The practice of osteopathy is regulated by law, under the terms of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 which came into effect on 18 September 2004.

Practitioners claim that subjecting certain parts of the body to magnetostatic fields produced by permanent magnets has beneficial health effects.

The clinic is staffed by low-level professionals and Community Health Aide / Practitioners or CHAs.

Nigeria replaced the QC nomenclature with the new title of Senior Advocate of Nigeria with appointments restricted to fewer than 30 lawyers a year, made by the Chief Justice of Nigeria on the recommendation of the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee which is made up of senior judges and lawyers.

Practitioners claim that anyone can gain access to this energy by means of an attunement process carried out by a Reiki Master.

In all Primary Care Trusts there are out of hours doctor services provided by General Practitioners.

Practitioners of sustainable living often attempt to reduce their carbon footprint by altering methods of transportation, energy consumption and diet.

It is an approved specialty by the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency.

Practitioners at the company have been featured in the book A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink.

It is awarded by the Royal College of General Practitioners ( RCGP ).

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A year of internship in a hospital designated for that purpose, under the supervision of a specialist in that discipline is required before an unrestricted license to practice medicine and surgery is granted by the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council.

PAs are employed by the United States Department of State as Foreign Service Health Practitioners ( FSHP ).

Practitioners of therapeutic touch state that by placing their hands on, or near, a patient, they are able to detect and manipulate the patient's energy field.

Practitioners using the magnetic pole approach generally represent the magnetic field by the irrotational field H, in analogy to the electric field E.

Practitioners using the current loop model generally represent the magnetic field by the solenoidal field B, analogous to the electrostatic field D.