Acupuncture as Migraine Prophylaxis in Reducing Frequency, Duration and Intensity of Migraine With Minimum Acupoint, Seen up to Eight Weeks From Baseline

University of Indonesia (UI)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Migraine Disorders; Migraine; Headache

Treatments: Other: acupuncture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04509141

medical acupuncture 2020

Details and patient eligibility

About

Migraine is a primary headache attack, specific, paroxysmal, with or without aura, with subjective manifestations both before and after the attack, a chronic type of headache with symptoms of recurrence, attacks at productive age and can cause a decrease in work productivity up to 80%, so that it will affect the quality of life, economic life and education globally which leads to losses for migraine sufferers and institutions where migraine sufferers attend school, work and in the lives of sufferers' families.

Full description

Migraine is a primary headache attack, specific, paroxysmal, with or without aura, with subjective manifestations both before and after the attack, a chronic type of headache with symptoms of recurrence, attacks at productive age and can cause a decrease in work productivity up to 80%, so that it will affect the quality of life, economic life and education globally which leads to losses for migraine sufferers and institutions where migraine sufferers attend school, work and in the lives of sufferers' families. With the high prevalence and disability rates for migraine sufferers, on the other hand, the right treatment for migraine has not yet been obtained to the maximum, it is necessary to deepen the treatment and prevention of migraine is needed, and until now there has been no definitive cure, both for prevention and treatment, so it is necessary to develop therapies that can provide more accurate relief for migraine sufferers. The purpose of this study is to assess the success in managing migraine in reducing the frequency of attacks, reducing the intensity of attacks and reducing the duration of attacks from weeks 0, 4 to 8

Enrollment: 34 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• subjects aged 19-50 years
• subjects with history of clinical diagnosis of migraine (interictal period)
• signed research approval forms, and were willing to take the study to completion.

Exclusion criteria

• subjects with pregnancy,
• lesions, wounds, infections and suffering from malignant diseases or tumor and thrombophlebitis in the area at the selected acupuncture point
• increasing liver function three times above normal values.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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34 participants in 2 patient groups

acupuncture

Active Comparator group

Description:

acupuncture three times a week

Treatment:

Other: acupuncture

standard treatment for migraine by neurologist

Active Comparator group

Description:

standard treatment for migraine that was given by a neurologist

Treatment:

Other: acupuncture