— Chronic tension headache patients experience relief with 8-week treatment course
Acupuncture helped reduce the frequency of chronic tension-type headaches (CTTH), a randomized controlled trial in China found.
More than two-thirds (68.2%) of people with CTTH who received true acupuncture reported at least a 50% reduction in the number of monthly headache days at week 16, compared with 48.1% who had superficial acupuncture (OR 2.65, 95% CI 1.5-4.77), reported Ying Li, MD, PhD, of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China, and colleagues in Neurology. Read the full story in MedPage Today.