ReviewJournal of pain research2025
A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials for Electroacupuncture Treatment of Migraine.
Review in Journal of pain research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Acupuncture modulates migraine-related neural and neuroendocrine regulatory pathways.The journal of headache and pain · 2026Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Purpose: Numerous clinical studies have shown that patients with migraine can benefit from electroacupuncture treatment. However, there are no published systematic reviews and meta-analyses of pure electroacupuncture for migraine. Therefore, we conducted a meta-analysis to evaluate the efficacy of pure electroacupuncture as a standalone treatment for migraine patients. Patients and Methods: We searched Six electronic databases. All from the inception to August 1st, 2024. In the literature, clinical investigators evaluated the efficacy and safety of electroacupuncture as the primary treatment for migraine. Researchers assessed the quality of the studies using the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. The Review Manager 5.4 software was used to perform statistical analysis. Results: Ten randomized controlled trials involving 1161 people were included. The meta-analysis yielded a substantial result: the application of pure electroacupuncture significantly improved the effective rate compared to the control group. In the visual analogue scale score, the present study found no significant difference between electroacupuncture and Western medicine as standalone treatments. Regarding migraine-associated symptom scores, the experimental group exhibited no superiority in comparison to the control group. Moreover, following the intervention, several significant changes were observed in the secondary outcome indicators between the two groups, including cerebral arterial blood flow velocity, the migraine attack days, the lasting time of headache remission, mean time of the headache attack, duration of the headache attack, and the migraine-specific quality of life questionnaire score, with the results proving to be statistically significant. Conclusion: The results of the analysis suggested that pure electroacupuncture is beneficial for migraine patients, but it remains difficult to obtain comprehensive data. Our study is supported by evidence of low to moderate quality. It is necessary to further confirm the efficacy of pure electroacupuncture for migraine with higher-quality clinical research.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.