Acupuncture for the Treatment of Chronic Daily Headaches - Full Text View

Acupuncture for the Treatment of Chronic Daily Headaches

This study has been completed.

Sponsored by:	National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
Information provided by:	National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00086021

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to determine whether acupuncture can reduce pain in long-term headache sufferers.

Condition	Intervention
Headache Disorders	Procedure: Acupuncture

MedlinePlus related topics:

Headache

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Treatment, Randomized, Open Label, Active Control, Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study

Official Title:	Acupuncture for the Treatment of Chronic Daily Headaches

Further study details as provided by National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM):

Estimated Enrollment:	74
Study Start Date:	February 2002
Study Completion Date:	June 2007

Detailed Description:

Acupuncture has been shown to reduce the frequency and severity of some types of headaches, but the efficacy of acupuncture for chronic daily headaches has not been studied. The long-term goals of this study are to reduce the symptoms that are associated with recurrent headaches and to collect data that can be used for future acupuncture studies.

Participants in this study will be randomly assigned to receive 8 weeks of either standard care or ten acupuncture treatments in addition to medical care. Self-report questionnaires will be used to assess headaches and daily pain severity.

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Ability to communicate in English
Presence of headache 15 or more days in the past month

Exclusion Criteria:

Known intracranial mass
Recent surgery to the head and neck region

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00086021

Locations


United States, Massachusetts
	Harvard Medical School
	Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115

United States, North Carolina
	University of North Carolina
	Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 27599

Sponsors and Collaborators

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)

More Information

Study ID Numbers:	K23 AT001194
First Received:	June 21, 2004
Last Updated:	June 8, 2007
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00086021
Health Authority:	United States: Federal Government

Keywords provided by National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM):

Headache

Acupuncture

Study placed in the following topic categories:

Signs and Symptoms

Headache

Central Nervous System Diseases

Neurologic Manifestations

Pain

Brain Diseases

Headache Disorders

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

Nervous System Diseases

Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 15, 2008