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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 ...
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