Acupuncture and Its Role in the Treatment of Migraine Headaches

Acupuncture is a form of traditional Chinese medicine that is performed by placing needles or pressure in specific locations on a patient's skin to achieve a therapeutic effect. Although used to treat a variety of disorders, one of the most common applications of acupuncture is to treat chronic pain, especially headache and migraine pain. Migraines are difficult to treat, and pharmacotherapies are often the first line of treatment, although these options have many unwanted side effects, such as exacerbation of headache pain in those with chronic migraine. Many complimentary and integrative therapies are available to treat migraine (including nutraceuticals, yoga, tai chi, and biofeedback), among which acupuncture as a treatment is gaining increasing attention. In this review, we provide an overview of the current understanding of both acupuncture and migraine and of current research investigating the effectiveness of acupuncture in treating migraine and chronic migraine.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

Neurology and therapy - 9(2020), 2 vom: 01. Dez., Seite 375-394

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Urits, Ivan [VerfasserIn]
Patel, Megha [VerfasserIn]
Putz, Mary Elizabeth [VerfasserIn]
Monteferrante, Nikolas R [VerfasserIn]
Nguyen, Diep [VerfasserIn]
An, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Cornett, Elyse M [VerfasserIn]
Hasoon, Jamal [VerfasserIn]
Kaye, Alan D [VerfasserIn]
Viswanath, Omar [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Acupuncture
Chronic pain
Journal Article
Migraine
Review

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Date Revised 12.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s40120-020-00216-1

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM315718366