Randomized Controlled Trial of Treating Migraine With Acupuncture

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Migraine
• Interventions: Other: acupuncture

• Registration Number: NCT00599586
• Lead Sponsor: Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Brief Summary

The purpose of the study is to testify whether acupuncture is effective for migraine, and provide evidence for the hypothesis that"Acupuncture effect is based on meridians, and gathering of meridian Qi is the key point."

Detailed Description

The purpose of the study is to testify whether acupuncture is effective for migraine, through treating migraine patients for a month, using different acupoints according to literatures of treating migraine with acupuncture, and try to provide clinical evidence for the hypothesis that"Acupuncture effect is based on meridians, and gathering of meridian Qi is the key point."

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2007-11
• Study First Submitted: 2008-01-03
• Study First Submitted QC: 2008-01-14
• Study First Posted: 2008-01-24
• Primary Completion: 2009-09
• Study Completion: 2009-09
• Status Verified: 2010-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2010-06-27
• Last Update Posted: 2010-06-29

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 480

Inclusion Criteria

1. Age of a subject is older than 18 and is younger than 65.(The subject is younger than 50 when he was ill for the first time.)
2. Consistent with the diagnostic criteria of Premonitory Migraine and Non- Premonitory Migraine.
3. Attacks of migraine are equal to or more than 2 times in the last three months.
4. With more than one year history of migraine
5. Informed consent is signed by a subject or his lineal relation.

Exclusion Criteria

1. With serious protopathy or disease of cardiovascular, liver, renal,gastrointestinal, hematological systems and so on.
2. Psychotic，patients with allergic constitution or easily getting infected or bleeding.
3. Patients have used drugs for preventing migraine in the last four weeks.
4. Pregnant women or women in lactation.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
group 1	acupuncture	specific acupoints of Shaoyang meridians
Group 2	acupuncture	Non-specific acupoints of Shaoyang meridians
group 3	acupuncture	Acupoints of other meridians
group 4	acupuncture	Non-acupoints

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
number of days with migraine	4 weeks
frequency of migraine attacks	4 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Migraine-Specific Quality-of-Life Questionnaire	a month
Transcranial Doppler Sonography	a month

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Chengdu University of TCM; 🇨🇳 Chengdu, Sichuan, China