Acupuncture In Migraine Without Aura Patients

Ataturk University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Acupuncture; Migraine Without Aura

Treatments: Other: Acupuncture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04542811

B.30.2.ATA.0.01.00/113

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators aimed to investigate the effect of acupuncture treatment on attack frequency, pain intensity, and disability in migraine without aura patients who receive prophylaxis treatment.

Full description

Acupuncture is a Traditional Chinese Medicine method that has been used for 3000 years to control symptoms, treat illnesses, and relieve pain. Acupuncture is widely used in many countries today as a complementary therapy, especially in cases of chronic pain. Migraine is one of the diseases in which acupuncture treatment is commonly used. Studies conducted so far have focused more on the effect of acupuncture on pain intensity in patients with migraine. Data comparing the impact of acupuncture on both the attack frequency and disability in migraine are relatively scarce.

Enrollment: 84 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15 to 55 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being diagnosed with migraine according to IHS (International Headache Association)
• Receiving migraine prophylaxis treatment
• Having more than four attacks per month/more than one attack per week
• Not having received acupuncture treatment before.

Exclusion criteria

• Being diagnosed with migraine with aura/secondary headache
• Having received acupuncture treatment for any reason within the last year
• Not giving consent for acupuncture treatment
• Having a fear of needles.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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84 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention group will take 12 sessions of acupuncture addition to their prophylaxis treatment. Acupuncture points will be bilateral LI-4, LI-11, ST-8, ST-44, SP-6, GB-1, GB-14, GB-20, LR-3, and GV-14, GV-20. Sterile and single-use stainless steel acupuncture needles measuring 0.25x25 mm will be inserted to a depth of 10 mm and be retained for 30 minute without any further stimulation. Acupuncture will be performed by an acupuncturist with an acupuncture practitioner licence from the Turkish Ministry of Health. Adverse events will be monitored for all acupuncture sessions.

Treatment:

Other: Acupuncture

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Control group will take only their migraine prophylaxis treatment. Participants will followed-up 3 months.