Acupuncture Treatment for Migraine: a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 100
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- improvement of headache frequency
研究概览
简要总结
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.
详细描述
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Double (Participant, Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 17 Years 至 45 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •clinical diagnosis of non-aura Migraine formulated by the international headache society in 2004
排除标准
- •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
结局指标
主要结局
improvement of headache frequency
时间窗: 4 weeks
次要结局
未报告次要终点