Objective : To research the trends of study related to tension-type headache and mifrain with acupuncture in PubMed, and to establish the hereafter direction of acupuncture. for tension-type headache and migrain.
Methods : We searched in PubMed Pubmed, with tension-type headache, migrain and acupuncture limitted by abstract and enterz data 10 years.
Results : 1. The pattern of the study was as follows: Review article(18), Clinical Trials(23), meta analysis(2) and rondomized controlled trials(16). We futher estimated 23 articles.
2. many of these studies provide equivocal results because of designs, sample size and the others, but in the majority of the trials were concludes that acupuncture offers benefits in the treatment of headache.
3. Acupuncture methods need individualization, a carefully selected placebo and cross-over design must have adequate time between the two treatment periods.
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