I read an interesting article about acupuncture and how it has been shown in studies to help with headaches. The study in question was done at Tech Univ in Munich, Germany at the Institute of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology and used 270 patients who suffered from tension headaches.
Tension headaches affect more than 30 percent of the population, so many headache sufferers are willing to give acupuncture a try. The study featured a group that received traditional acupuncture, a group that received “minimal” acupuncture (often referred to as “superficial needling” in which the needles are inserted at points that don’t necessarily correspond to traditional acupuncture methods) and a control group which had none.
Because both traditional acupuncture and the “superficial needling” type of acupuncture often show similar results, as in this study, many experts are reluctant to recommend acupuncture as a means of treatment. However, many agree that there is something to it, whether placebo effect or not, because the study groups that do have some sort of acupuncture always seem to do better than the control.
Source: Healthday / Forbes
