Acupuncture Better Than Pills for Chronic Headaches
In an article in the Providence Journal, it was noted that new meta-studies show that acupuncture works better than pills for chronic headaches. A meta-study is research that reviews many other studies, discovering common findings and results. Headache is one of the most common complaints seen in any acupuncture clinic, and can generally be treated very effectively acupuncture. It looks as if Western research if finally catching up with what TCM practitioners have always known. An excerpt of the article is below:
For chronic headaches, the best treatment may be one of the oldest: acupuncture.
In 1998, the National Institutes of Health accepted acupuncture as a useful alternative treatment for headaches, but warned that there were not enough clinical trials to draw firm conclusions about its efficacy. Now a systematic review of studies through 2007 concludes that acupuncture provides greater relief than either medication or a placebo.
The report, which appears in the December issue of Anesthesia and Analgesia, reviewed 25 randomized controlled trials in adults that lasted more than four weeks. In seven trials comparing acupuncture with medication, researchers found that 62 percent of 479 patients had significant response to acupuncture, and only 45 percent to medicine.
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