Patients with chronic headache gain persisting, clinically relevant improvements in their condition when given acupuncture, researchers report in the British Medical Journal 'Online First' published March 15th. The intervention is also cost effective, they say.
The clinical benefits of the treatment were particularly noticeable for those patients with migraine, report Dr. Andrew Vickers, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, and UK based colleagues.
Acupuncture Shown to Benefit Headache in Primary Care: "
