Acupuncture for Migraine: a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Study
- Conditions
- Migraine
- Registration Number
- NCT01152632
- Lead Sponsor
- Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Brief Summary
Selecting acupoints along meridians is the predominant principle in acupuncture treatment, and it is also considered to ensure acupuncture efficacy. This experiment is to investigate whether specific brain networks gradually come in formation in accordance with this kind of acupoint selection methods.
- Detailed Description
Every participants in the four intervention groups will go through functional magnetic imaging (fMRI) scan four times: the 1st scan will be performed at their baselines; the 2nd scan will be done after 2 courses (10 times) acupuncture treatment; the 3rd scan will be performed when the 4 courses end; the 4th scan will be operated after three-month enrollment.
Volunteers in waiting list group will undergo the above scans at the same time points in exception of acupuncture treatment.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 100
- clinical diagnosis of non-aura Migraine formulated by the international headache society in 2004
- people with other types of headache
- people with organic cerebral disorders
- people with primary disorders
- people in moderate or severe anxiety or depression
- people in pregnancy
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method improvement of headache frequency 4 weeks
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
🇨🇳Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine🇨🇳Chengdu, Sichuan, China