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Welcome to our Chinese medicine and acupuncture research news pages. We add to the content of these pages continuously as more research news comes in. Browse through the complete archive below or use the category links on the right.

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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 ...

ACUPUNCTURE FOR MIGRAINE

Categories: Headache & migraine

Italian researchers have conducted a trial on migraine sufferers that attempts to separate the specific effects of a true TCM acupuncture treatment from the effects of both standard sham acupuncture and a mock 'acupuncture healing ritual'. One hundred and sixty patients were divided into four groups: true acupuncture (TA) plus normal drug therapy (Rizatriptan), ritualised mock acupuncture (RMA) pl ...

ACUPUNCTURE IMPROVES AUTONOMIC REGULATION IN MIGRAINE

Categories: Headache & migraine

A positive response to acupuncture by migraine sufferers is associated with beneficial changes in the regulation of the autonomic nervous system. Thirty migraineurs were randomly allocated to two groups receiving either verum acupuncture (VA) or sham acupuncture (SA) treatment. Across the combined VA and SA groups, clinical responders (those with at least 50% reduction of migraine attacks) exhibit ...