migraine. Migraine without aura [common migraine]
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention 1: Intervention-True Acupuncture: Inserting needles on true acupoints and maintaining them for 30 minutes in each treatment session, 3 times per week, duration: one month. Intervention 2:
Treatment - Other
Intervention-True Acupuncture: Inserting needles on true acupoints and maintaining them for 30 minutes in each treatment session, 3 times per week, duration: one month.
Control- Sham Acupuncture: inserting needles superficially not in real acupuncture points and maintaining them for 30 minutes in each session, 3 times per week, duration: one month.
Sponsors
Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
16 Years to 65 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Inclusion criteria: a diagnosis for Migraine; more than 3 migraine attacks in a month; inadequacy of three months conventional prophylaxis treatment; Patient's consent to receive acupuncture Exclusion criteria: Absence of a net diagnosis for migraine; Patient's disapproval; Patients who did not fulfill their treatment sessions; Migraine headaches which are responsive to medications; Patients who had received acupuncture treatment in the past six months.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria:
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The numbers of monthly headache attacks. Timepoint: baseline, and at the end of first month treatment, at the end of the second, third and fourth months from baseline. Method of measurement: patients' self-report of monthly headache frequency. | — |
Countries
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Contacts
Public ContactAmir Reza Golchian
Department of Integrative Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine
Outcome results
None listed