Randomized controlled trial to treat migraine with acupuncture: design and protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background and motivation

The effectiveness of using acupuncture to treat migraine is rarely and even suspectedly reported in the literature. In this article, we report the design and the protocol of a randomized controlled large-scale trial to treat migraine using acupuncture, aiming at testifying it is effective to use acupuncture to treat migraine. We demonstrate also that the effectiveness of the treatment may vary due to using acupoints of different meridians or different acupoints of one meridian.

Methods and design

A multi-center randomized controlled trial is currently undergoing, with three acupoints treatment groups and one non-acupoints control group. The acupuncture treatment consists of 20 sessions per patient with a observation period of 20 weeks. In total, 480

SUBMITTER: Li Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2577624 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature