ReviewNeurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology2011
Acupuncture in primary headache treatment.
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- Acupuncture as prophylaxis for chronic migraine: a protocol for a single-blinded, double-dummy randomised controlled trial.BMJ open · 2018Trial
- Acupuncture-related modulation of pain-associated brain networks during electrical pain stimulation: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2014Trial
- Bibliometric Analysis of 100 Most Highly Cited Publications on Acupuncture for Migraine.Journal of pain research · 2023Article
- Complementary Therapies in Parkinson Disease: a Review of Acupuncture, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Yoga, and Cannabis.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2020Review
- Integrative East-West Medicine Intervention for Chronic Daily Headache: A Case Report and Care Perspective.Global advances in health and medicine · 2020Article
- Recent Approaches and Development of Acupuncture on Chronic Daily Headache.Current pain and headache reports · 2016Review
- A Correlation Study between Two Adjacent Same-Meridian Acupoints after Laser-Needle Acupuncture with Optical Coherence Tomography and Diffuse Reflectance Spectra.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2016Article
- Exploring a Culturally Relevant Model of Cancer Prevention Involving Traditional Chinese Medicine Providers in a Chinese American Community.European journal of integrative medicine · 2014Article
- The Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Patients with Migraine.Noro psikiyatri arsivi · 2013Review
- Challenges to evaluating complex interventions: a content analysis of published papers.BMC public health · 2013Article
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Abstract
Acupuncture has a long tradition of use for the treatment of many pain conditions, including headache. Its effectiveness has been studied mainly for primary headaches, particularly for migraine and tension-type headache (TTH). Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has two diagnostic frameworks for headaches: meridian diagnoses, based on the location of the pain and on the meridians (or channels) that pass through it; syndrome diagnoses, dependent on external or internal factors and on the characteristics of the pain. The four meridians involved in headache are Shaoyang (TE-GB channels, on the temporal sides of the head); Taiyang (SI-BL channels, occiput); Yangming (LI-ST channels, forehead) and Jueyin (PC-LR channels, vertex). The syndromes may be due to excess or deficit. Very generally, the excess syndromes correspond in the majority of cases to migraine and the deficit syndromes to TTH. Acupuncture is a complex intervention, which is also characterized by a close interaction between patient and therapist. The complicated system of TCM classification of headaches has frequently generated great diversity among the various therapeutic approaches used in the different studies on acupuncture in headache treatment. Despite these differences, the recent Cochrane systematic reviews on acupuncture in migraine and in TTH suggest that acupuncture is an effective and valuable option for patients suffering from migraine or frequent TTH. Moreover, acupuncture seems to be a cost-effective treatment.
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