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

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

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

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.

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

A randomized controlled trial with control was conducted on 34 subjects with migraine who were randomly allocated into the manual group of acupuncture (n = 17), as well as the medicine group (n = 17). The assessment of frequency, duration and intensity of migraine attacks assessed at the time before treatment, at the fourth and eight week from baseline

the patient did not know that there were two groups divided in each participants, and the doctor who measures the outcome also did not know which person belongs to which group

Manual acupuncture interventions can reduce the frequency of migraine attacks better than the preventive pharmacological valproic acid

Manual acupuncture interventions can reduce the duration of migraine attacks better than the preventive pharmacological valproic acid

Manual acupuncture interventions can reduce the change from Baseline in pain scores on the Visual Analog Scale of migraine attacks better than the preventive pharmacological valproic acid

Manual acupuncture interventions can reduce the frequency of migraine attacks better than the preventive pharmacological valproic acid

Manual acupuncture interventions can reduce the duration of migraine attacks better than the preventive pharmacological valproic acid

Manual acupuncture interventions can reduce the change from Baseline in pain scores on the Visual Analog Scale of migraine attacks better than the preventive pharmacological valproic acid

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.