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A pounding headache can pretty much disable you. If it occurs again and again as with migraines, it can ruin your life. Acupuncture for migraines is very effective.

Acupuncture for Migraines

The migraine headache is a bane on modern society with far reaching impacts that go beyond the pain suffered. The National Headache foundation estimates that as many as 28 million people suffer from migraine headaches. The causes of these headaches range from diet, stress, allergens, menstruation to simple changes in the weather. The duration of the attacks range from a few minutes to several days. The most severe cases can totally incapacitate a person.

Migraines are one of the leading causes of lost time in the workplace. It is estimated that the cost of absenteeism from the estimated 157 million lost work days is over 50 billion dollars yearly when medical expenses are included. An additional 4 billion dollars is spent on pain killers for migraines and other types of headaches.

A recent study done in Italy and reported in the Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine compared the effect of acupuncture for migraine headaches versus conventional pain killer therapy. One of the most interesting features of this study is that each patient was given a complete examination prior to the start of the test. This allowed the acupuncture therapy to be tailored to the individual causation of each patients condition. This is important in any study of acupuncture. There is no cookie cutter acupuncture treatment that is correct for everyone. When a study is done using the exact same points for the exact same duration, the results are going to be skewed and worthless.