Filed in archive Treatment by kevin on July 29, 2005

A randomized trial touts the efficacy of acupuncture in tension headaches. Unfortunately, acupuncture is rarely covered by insurance:

"In a randomised controlled trial - the gold standard of clinical trials - researchers in Germany divided 270 patients with a similar severity of tension headache into three groups.

Over an eight week period one set were treated with traditional acupuncture, one with minimal acupuncture (needles inserted only superficially into the skin, at non-acupuncture points), and one group had neither treatment ('control' group).

Those receiving traditional acupuncture care saw their headache rates drop by almost half - suffering 7 days less headaches over the four weeks following the treatment. Those receiving minimal acupuncture had 6.6 less days of headaches. While the control group experienced 1.5 less days of headaches - a drop of just a tenth.

Improvements to headache rates continued for months after the acupuncture treatment, though they began to rise slightly as time went on."

("Acupuncture cuts tension headache rates by almost half", Medical News Today, Jul.29)

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Response from: Acupuncturist in Auckland NZ (12/02/06 12:37am)

There is another fresh study on the bubject in the latest issue of the journal Cephalalgia.
http://www.acupuncture.vitalis.co.nz/2006/11/tension-headaches-natural
-cure.html

Response from: Elby (01/11/07 7:33pm)

Acupuncture is a centuries-old chinese method of healing. Acupuncture is the insertion of really fine needles (sometimes in conjunction with electric current). Acupuncture is something that has mystified and baffled scientists researchers and the public for some time. On the average probably no more than 10 points or so can be selected for treatment. Blockage of energy is responsible for pain or disease in the corresponding body part.

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