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NICE recommends acupuncture for headache
Categories: Headache & migraine
NICE (the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has published new clinical guidelines on the treatment of headaches.
Acupuncture affects pain processing in migraineurs
Categories: Headache & migraine
Chinese researchers have found traditional acupuncture to be more effective for pain reduction in migraine sufferers than a control acupuncture treatment and have correlated this effect to differences in activity in pain-related brain regions.
Acupuncture helps with acute migraines
Categories: Headache & migraine
A Chinese group has found that acupuncture is significantly superior to sham for the treatment of acute migraines.
Acupuncture and sham equally effective for migraines
Categories: Headache & migraine, Acupuncture research
Acupuncture and sham acupuncture appear equally effective in preventing migraines, according to a large clinical study published by an international research team, although real acupuncture may have longer-lasting effects.
Acupuncture better than drugs for migraine
Categories: Headache & migraine
cupuncture compares favourably with the drug topiramate for reducing migraine frequency, according to Taiwanese investigators.
Acupuncture better than flunarizine for migraine
Categories: Headache & migraine
A Chinese multi-centre trial has found that acupuncture is as good as the drug flunarizine at reducing pain and improving quality of life for migraineurs, and more effective than the drug at decreasing the number days on which patients experience mig ...
Specific ear acupuncture points help acute migraine
Categories: Headache & migraine
Another Italian study backs up the therapeutic specificity of auricular acupuncture points used in migraine treatment.
Acupuncture better than flunarizine for migraine
Categories: Headache & migraine
A Chinese multi-centre trial has found that acupuncture is as good as the drug flunarizine at reducing pain and improving quality of life for migraineurs, and more effective than the drug at decreasing the number days on which patients experience mig ...
ACUPUNCTURE IN LONG-TERM MIGRAINE
Categories: Headache & migraine
A study carried out in Austria has demonstrated the long-term benefits of acupuncture in the treatment of migraine. 26 patients were treated by local and distal body points, once weekly, for between 6 and 13 treatments. The majority showed reduced frequency of attacks and use of analgesics. Significantly, a follow-up survey showed maintained improvement over a 3-year period. (Headache, 1995; 35(8) ...
ACUPUNCTURE & MIGRAINE
Categories: Headache & migraine
Women who opt for acupuncture instead of a drug to prevent migraines report feeling fewer initial symptoms, fewer attacks, and less side effects from the treatment, new study findings report. The study, carried out at the Woman's Headache Centre at the University of Turin, Italy, compared the effect of acupuncture with oral flunarizine in preventing non-aura migraine over a 6-month period. The 160 ...
ACUPUNCTURE FOR CHRONIC HEADACHE
Categories: Headache & migraine
Acupuncture has demonstrated a clear long-term benefit for patients suffering from chronic headaches. 401 patients were randomly assigned to receive either individualised acupuncture treatment (12 treatments over 3 months), or normal care from their general practitioner (control). At 12 months after the onset of treatment, headache scores in the acupuncture group fell by 34% (compared to 16% in th ...
CHINESE MEDICINE FOR CHRONIC HEADACHES
Categories: Headache & migraine
This German study compared the number of days of moderate headache experienced by two groups of chronic headache sufferers, one after 4 weeks of Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture treatment at a Chinese medicine hospital in Kotzting, Germany, and the other assigned to a non-treatment waiting group. Fifty-two percent of patients in the treatment group experienced a greater than 50% reduction i ...
ACUPUNCTURE FOR CHRONIC HEADACHE
Categories: Headache & migraine
Another large German study similarly compared the effects of randomly assigned acupuncture, self-elected acupuncture and non-acupuncture controls on chronic migraine and tension headache in a total of 15,056 patients. After three months of treatment (fifteen sessions) the frequency of headache days reduced significantly and quality of life scores improved significantly between the acupuncture and ...
LASER ACUPUNCTURE & CHRONIC TENSION HEADACHE
Categories: Headache & migraine
Laser acupuncture has a distinct advantage over needle acupuncture in clinical trials since it is considerably easier to apply a placebo intervention. In a study of the use of laser acupuncture in the treatment of chronic tension-type headache, 50 patients were randomly allocated to treatment or placebo groups. Patients in the treatment group received low energy laser acupuncture to Lieque LU-7, H ...
ACUPUNCTURE & TENSION HEADACHE
Categories: Headache & migraine
A German trial compared 'true' acupuncture, sham acupuncture and no acupuncture in 270 female patients suffering from episodic or chronic tension-type headache. The acupuncture protocol, which was carried out at 28 different clinics, was developed through consultation with various German acupuncture experts and societies and delivered by practitioners with a median of 500 hours training and 10 yea ...
ACUPUNCTURE & MIGRAINE
Categories: Headache & migraine
Acupuncture (up to 15 sessions over 12 weeks) was compared with metoprolol (a standard migraine prophylaxis medication) for effectiveness and tolerability in 113 patients randomised to one of two groups. The number of days with migraine decreased by 2.5 days in the acupuncture group compared to 2.2 in the medication group and those experiencing 50% or greater reduction in attacks was 61% for acupu ...
ACUPUNCTURE & HEADACHE
Categories: Headache & migraine
In a randomised, controlled trial, 74 patients with chronic daily headache were randomly assigned to receive either medical management alone (headache medication) or medical management plus acupuncture (10 treatments over six weeks). The patients receiving acupuncture were reported 3.7 times less suffering due to headaches at six weeks, and further showed improvements in the Headache Impact Test a ...
ACUPUNCTURE EQUIVALENT TO DRUGS FOR MIGRAINE
Categories: Headache & migraine
A review of current studies on acupuncture and migraine concludes that a six-week course of acupuncture is not inferior to a six-month prophylactic drug treatment, but that specific TCM-based point selection, point stimulation and needling depth may not be that important. The review suggests that acupuncture should be integrated into existing migraine therapy protocols. Role of acupuncture in the ...
LASER ACUPUNCTURE EFFECTIVE FOR CHILDREN'S HEADACHES
Categories: Headache & migraine
Laser acupuncture can provide significant benefit in the treatment of children with headache. Researchers in Germany carried out a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of laser acupuncture in 43 children (mean age 12.3 years) with various types of headache. Patients received a course of four treatments over four weeks with either active or placebo laser. The acupuncture treatment was ...
ACUPUNCTURE FOR TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE
Categories: Headache & migraine
Tension-type headache (TTH), improves after acupuncture, but the difference between real and sham treatment is not significant, a new German study has found. The randomised, controlled, multicentre, patient-and observer-blinded trial was carried out in 122 outpatient practices on 409 patients with TTH. Patients had either verum acupuncture (according TCM principles) or sham acupuncture (superficia ...
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