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Can Acupuncture Reduce Headaches? - Neuroscience News
Jun 23, 2022 1 min, 27 secs

Acupuncture may reduce headaches for people who have chronic tension-type headaches, according to a study published in the June 22, 2022, online issue of Neurology.

Tension-type headaches are considered chronic when they occur at least 15 days per month.

“Tension-type headaches are one of the most common types of headaches and people who have a lot of these headaches may be looking for alternatives to medication,” said study author Ying Li, MD, PhD, of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Chengdu, China.

“Our study found that acupuncture reduces the average number of headache days per month for those struggling with these painful and disruptive headache attacks.”.

The study involved 218 people who were diagnosed with chronic tension-type headaches.

They had chronic tension-type headaches for an average of 11 years and had 22 days per month with headaches on average.

Participants were randomly assigned to receive either true acupuncture or superficial acupuncture.

At the end of the study, 68% of the people receiving true acupuncture reported at least a 50% reduction in the monthly number of headache days compared to 50% of the people who received superficial acupuncture.

Researchers found the number of monthly headache days gradually decreased after treatment, in both those who received true acupuncture treatments and superficial acupuncture treatments.

For those who received true acupuncture, headache days decreased from 20 days per month at the beginning of the study to seven days per month by the end of the study.

 For those who received superficial acupuncture, headache days decreased from 23 days per month at the beginning of the study to 12 days per month at the end of the study.

“While this study showed that acupuncture can reduce headaches, more research is needed to determine the longer-term effectiveness of acupuncture and how it compares to other treatment options,” said Li.

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