While church members point out that followers are free to choose to seek conventional medical treatment, most rely exclusively on healing by prayer.

While her father was more directly associated with healing, she was associated with the prevention of sickness and the continuation of good health.

While most mineral water resorts fell out of favor as medical science began to question the healing properties of mineral springs, Red Boiling Springs persisted, reaching its peak in the 1920s and 1930s.

While stretching can disrupt healing during the initial inflammatory phase, it has been shown that controlled movement of the tendons after about one week following an acute injury can help to promote the synthesis of collagen by the tenocytes, leading to increased tensile strength and diameter of the healed tendons and fewer adhesions than tendons that are immobilized.

While many rituals focus on personal communion with the divine and spiritual purification, others often seek " magical " results, such as healing or good luck in battle.

While for many they provide the healing needed, there are some causes for concern.

While the bone formation usually spans the entire duration of the healing process, in some instances, bone marrow within the fracture has healed two or fewer weeks before the final remodeling phase.

While immobilization and surgery may facilitate healing, a fracture ultimately heals through physiological processes.

While Nazarenes believe that the ill should utilize all appropriate medical agencies, Nazarenes also affirm God's will of divine healing and pastors may " lay hands " upon the ill in prayer, either at the hospital or in a worship service.

While in its early years the Pentecostal Holiness were against receiving medical care, emphasizing divine healing, that is not the case today.

While it was still healing, the injury was further aggravated by a fall he took, which broke several finger bones.

While Wolverine's mutant healing factor allowed his entire skeleton to be laced with adamantium, as well as preventing the adamantium from poisoning his blood, the details of Bullseye's surgical procedure ( s ) and how they prevent these complications have not been disclosed.

While many Pentecostal Christians welcomed his evangelistic and healing ministry, and some considered him to be a Prophet, a minority have accorded him an even higher status, believing that his ministry and teachings were supernaturally vindicated by God.

While Eustacia and Wildeve are talking, Mrs. Yeobright knocks on the door ; she has decided to pay a courtesy call in the hopes of healing the estrangement between herself and her son.

While some units from the previous Myth retain their special abilities, such as the Dwarf satchel charge and Journeyman healing, other past units like the Bowmen are able to fire a secondary fire arrow that can set the targeted area aflame, damaging nearby units, and also can use a knife as a last resort when in close combat.

While the wound is healing, it is possible that it might become infected by various microorganisms.

While Max is healing her, Nikolas and Isabel take off.

While Woundhealer can eventually repair a broken leg by being stuck into the patient's heart, the healing is instantaneous when it is sliced through the affected limb.

While her wrist was healing, she wore various brightly colored slings designed to match or complement her wardrobe for each show.

While it refills itself over time, it can be used to shake off health-bar damage, thus healing the player, but draining the stamina quicker.

While not nearly as efficient as the healing powers possessed by Wolverine, Morbius has proven able to heal from multiple gunshot wounds in less than an hour.

While some hotels have a high level of design and drama which may be aesthetically appealing, they generally lack those qualities that one would consider to be restorative or conducive to physical, emotional, and spiritual healing.

While she was known by her contemporaries because of her supposed visions and healing, such as her prophecy that King Wenceslaus would be victorious in his battle against the Austrians, her canonization was based on her practice of the Christian virtues of faith, hope and charity to an extraordinary degree, and the Church's view is confirmed either through a miracle granted by God in answer to the saint's prayers or, as in this case, by the continuing devotion of the Christian faithful to a Saint's example across centuries.

While this Gospel and others have a large number of scenes of Jesus preaching and healing, none depict him teaching in a synagogue.

While she was thus engaged, McFeeley questioned her about her whereabouts the previous day, any recollections she had of people hanging around, of overcurious delivery boys or repairmen, of strange cars cruising the neighborhood.

While they were told that there were some normal people who reacted differently than they had, they were also informed that there were other normals who reacted as they had.

While prowling around these buildings, two of the posse recognized the voice of Gonzales speaking to the people inside.

While humans and other organisms generally place less value on future costs / benefits as compared to those in the present, some have shorter time horizons than others and these people tend to be less cooperative.

While Agrippina lived there or when she went on short visits to Rome, Nero had sent people to annoy her.

While citizens voting in the assembly were the people and so were free of review or punishment, those same citizens when holding an office served the people and could be punished very severely.

While it contains much in the way of Native American tradition, it should not be confused with the tribal beliefs of any community of native people.

While Italian by birth, Salieri had lived in imperial Vienna for almost 60 years and was regarded by such people as the music critic Friedrich Rochlitz as a German composer.

While many indigenous Amazonian people say they received the instructions directly from plants and plant spirits, researchers have devised a number of alternative theories to explain its discovery.

While in the view of most American academics the two were as diametrically opposed as good and evil, Sakharov believed that in this " tragic confrontation of two outstanding people ," both deserved respect, because " each of them was certain he had right on his side and was morally obligated to go to the end in the name of truth.

While there is an official locality named Akibahara, which is also 秋葉原 in kanji, nearby ( as part of Taitō-ku ), the area known to most people as Akihabara ( including the railway station of the same name ) also include Soto-Kanda, a part of Chiyoda-ku.

While English and Russian are the dominant languages used by Aleuts living in the US and Russia respectively, the Aleut language is still spoken by several hundred people.

While Tacitus called it Mare Suebicum after the Germanic people of the Suebi, the first to name it also as the Baltic Sea ( Mare Balticum ) was eleventh century German chronicler Adam of Bremen.

While blind and visually impaired people had contributed to the body of common literature for centuries, one notable example being the author of Paradise Lost, John Milton, the creation of autobiographical materials, or materials specific to blindness, is relatively new.

While Jonah passively finds himself forced to act under the Divine Will, the people of Nineveh actively petition God to change His mind.

While some people with bipolar disorder mainly experience manic symptoms, others more often feel depressed.

While the Khmer built a standard brick tower, Po Klaung Garai directed his people to build an impressive replica of paper and wood.

While there is universal agreement that some Mesoamerican people practiced human sacrifice, there is a lack of scholarly consensus as to whether cannibalism in pre-Columbian America was widespread.

While most people have a strong intuition for the existence of what they refer to as consciousness, skeptics argue that this intuition is false, either because the concept of consciousness is intrinsically incoherent, or because our intuitions about it are based in illusions.

While people may gain celebrity status as a result of a successful career in a particular field ( primarily in the areas pertaining towards sports and entertainment ), in other cases, people become celebrities due to media attention for their extravagant lifestyle or wealth ( as in the case of a socialite ); for their connection to a famous person ( as in the case of a relative of a famous person ); or even for their misdeeds ( as in the case of a well-known criminal ).

While most of these testimonies represent ailments neither diagnosed nor treated by medical professionals, the Church does require three other people to vouch for any testimony published in its official organ, the Christian Science Journal.

While en route to Chongqing, the Nationalist army intentionally started the " fire of Changsha ", which lasted for three days, destroyed two thirds of the city, killed twenty thousand civilians, and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless.

While some jurisdictions regard crossbows same as firearms, many others do not even require any sort of license to own a crossbow even for people, such as felons, who may not legally possess a firearm.