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If you watched a certain swimmer’ s Rio Games debut on Sunday night, when he propelled the United States 4×100-meter relay team

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问题     If you watched a certain swimmer’ s Rio Games debut on Sunday night, when he propelled the United States 4×100-meter relay team to a gold medal, you know the answer: Michael Phelps. While it may look like the athletes have been in a bar fight, the purple dots actually are signs of "cupping," an ancient Chinese healing practice that is experiencing an Olympic moment.
    In cupping, practitioners of the healing technique—or sometimes the athletes themselves— place specialized cups on the skin. Then they use either heat or an air pump to create suction between the cup and the skin, pulling the skin slightly up and away from the underlying muscles. The suction typically lasts for only a few minutes, but it’ s enough time to cause the capillaries just beneath the surface to rupture, creating the circular, eye-catching bruises that have been so visible on Phelps as well as members of the United States men’ s gymnastics team.
    Physiologically, cupping is thought to draw blood to the affected area, reducing soreness and speeding healing of overworked muscles. Athletes who use it swear by it, saying it keeps them injury free and speeds recovery. Phelpsposted an Instagram photo showing himself stretched on a table as his Olympic swimming teammate Allison Schmitt placed several cups along the back of his thighs. "Thanks for my cupping today!" he wrote.
    While there’s no question that many athletes, coaches and trainers believe in the treatment, there’s not much science to determine whether cupping offers a real physiological benefit or whether the athletes simply are enjoying a placebo effect. "A placebo effect is present in all treatments, and I am sure that it is substantial in the case of cupping as well," said Leonid Kalichman, a senior lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. "A patient can feel the treatment and has marks after it, and this can contribute to a placebo effect."
    One 2012 study of 61 people with chronic neck pain compared cupping to a technique called progressive muscle relaxation, or PMR, during which a patient deliberately tenses his muscles and then focuses on relaxing them. About half the patients used cupping while the other half used PMR. Both patient groups reported similar reductions in pain after 12 weeks of treatment. Notably, the patients who had used cupping scored higher on measurements of well-being and felt less pain when pressure was applied to the area. Even so, the researchers noted that more study is needed to determine the potential benefits of cupping.
From the study, we know that compared with progressive muscle relaxation (PMR), cupping
选项 A、has more potential benefits on health.
B、needs more time of treatment.
C、is more popular among people with chronic neck pain.
D、is more effective for people’ s health.
答案D
解析 根据题干关键词定位到文章第五段。根据该段倒数第二句“值得注意的是，采 用拔罐疗法的患者对自己健康状况的评分更高，脖颈受压时感到的疼痛更轻”可知，D项 “对人们的健康状况更有效”符合文意，为正确答案。A项与该段末句“需要更多研究来确 定拔罐的潜在益处”不符。B项“需要更多的治疗时间”和C项“在慢性颈痛患者中更受欢 迎”在文中并没有提及，故排除。
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