Acupuncture Relieves The Pain of Tension Headaches

Earlier, the Chinese practice of acupuncture has proven to be an effective treatment for tension headache. Not only pain, but also a reduction in the dropout rate by nearly half, a new study shows.

Therapy of traditional Chinese acupuncture requires the integration of needles to 3 inches deep in the body, the prescribed acupuncture points, according to Zeng Rong Akupunkteurs license for the New York Good Health Clinic in Manhattan.

But a new study randomized, blind Germany, 270 patients with the same severity of tension headache has shown that at least during the acupuncture works almost as well, that the traditional method.

The researchers divided the patients into three groups. Over a period of eight weeks, a group that the traditional acupuncture, another received a minimum of acupuncture (needles inserted only superficially in the skin, in the non-acupuncture points), the group does not control treatment.

The subjects were four weeks after the end of treatment. Those who get themselves and then known traditional acupuncture seven fewer headaches. The group had already minimal acupuncture therapy had surprisingly similar results - 6.6 fewer headaches.

Improvements in the amount of head during the months after treatment with acupuncture, although they began to rise slightly to the time spent.

Such an insignificant difference between traditional and the results of treatment of acupuncture at least, the position of acupuncture points and the depth of integration of the needle is not by differences in the treatment of tension headache, the authors of the study suggest.

But they warn that the possibility of the placebo effect should not be underestimated.

"Placebo effect is a critical factor for all forms of medicine," said Dr. Zeng. In western medicine, for example, tests can be used as placebo effects, the process Similar responses to drugs, at you.

In any case, it is clear that the people treated with acupuncture known, less headaches. The possibility that the placebo effect plays a role in acupuncture does not affect its effectiveness.