Healing Naturally through Alternative Medicine
HEADACHES- PROVEN RELIEF
Oh, Your Aching Head? Acupuncture May Help! (from an article in Acupuncturetoday.com)
If you happen to suffer from chronic headaches, you should know that you are not alone. Chronic headache affects approximately one-third of the global population. Furthermore, an estimated 10 million people in the United States visit the general practitioner for chronic headache every year. Now, a group of researchers, writing in the December 2008 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, has combined data in a unique way to show the strength of evidence for acupuncture to help with this painful problem.
The researchers combined data from 31 different studies looking at the effectiveness of acupuncture for treating chronic headache. Combining studies provided them a total of almost 4,000 patients.
In looking at the data from all these studies, the researchers found acupuncture was superior to medication therapy for headache intensity, headache frequency, physical function and response rate. From this, they concluded, "Acupuncture is an effective treatment for chronic headache. Specifically, acupuncture is superior to sham with a significantly higher response rate in patients with migraine and tension-type headache, and it significantly reduced headache intensity at the late follow-up period. When compared with pharmacological and waiting list options, acupuncture was also more effective for reducing headache intensity and frequency."
See this Yahoo article on a recent study on headaches ....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081202/hl_nm/us_headaches_acupuncture
Know someone who has headaches???
Send them this- and maybe they can be headache free!!
Sincerely,
Geoff DePaula M.Ac., Lic.Ac., Dipl.C.H.
If you happen to suffer from chronic headaches, you should know that you are not alone. Chronic headache affects approximately one-third of the global population. Furthermore, an estimated 10 million people in the United States visit the general practitioner for chronic headache every year. Now, a group of researchers, writing in the December 2008 issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, has combined data in a unique way to show the strength of evidence for acupuncture to help with this painful problem.
The researchers combined data from 31 different studies looking at the effectiveness of acupuncture for treating chronic headache. Combining studies provided them a total of almost 4,000 patients.
In looking at the data from all these studies, the researchers found acupuncture was superior to medication therapy for headache intensity, headache frequency, physical function and response rate. From this, they concluded, "Acupuncture is an effective treatment for chronic headache. Specifically, acupuncture is superior to sham with a significantly higher response rate in patients with migraine and tension-type headache, and it significantly reduced headache intensity at the late follow-up period. When compared with pharmacological and waiting list options, acupuncture was also more effective for reducing headache intensity and frequency."
See this Yahoo article on a recent study on headaches ....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081202/hl_nm/us_headaches_acupuncture
Know someone who has headaches???
Send them this- and maybe they can be headache free!!
Sincerely,
Geoff DePaula M.Ac., Lic.Ac., Dipl.C.H.
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