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NCT Number: NCT01152632

Acupuncture for Migraine: a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Study

Selecting acupoints along meridians is the predominant principle in acupuncture treatment, and it is also considered to ensure acupuncture efficacy. This experiment is to investigate whether specific brain networks gradually come in formation in accordance with this kind of acupoint selection methods.

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Key information

Conditions

Migraine Brain Diseases Central Nervous System Diseases Headache Disorders Headache Disorders, Primary Migraine Disorders Nervous System Diseases

Age range

17 year–45 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Chengdu, Sichuan, 610075, China

About this study

Every participants in the four intervention groups will go through functional magnetic imaging (fMRI) scan four times: the 1st scan will be performed at their baselines; the 2nd scan will be done after 2 courses (10 times) acupuncture treatment; the 3rd scan will be performed when the 4 courses end; the 4th scan will be operated after three-month enrollment.

Volunteers in waiting list group will undergo the above scans at the same time points in exception of acupuncture treatment.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • clinical diagnosis of non-aura Migraine formulated by the international headache society in 2004

Exclusion criteria

  • people with other types of headache
  • people with organic cerebral disorders
  • people with primary disorders
  • people in moderate or severe anxiety or depression
  • people in pregnancy

Treatment and study plan

Manual acupuncture

Other

thirty minutes duration every time, five times per week for one course, a total four courses

Other names: acupuncture

Primary outcomes

  1. improvement of headache frequency

    Time frame: 4 weeks

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Acupuncture Treatment for Migraine: a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

Important dates

Study start
2010
Primary completion
2013
Study completion
2013
First posted
Jun 29, 2010
Registry last updated
Dec 2, 2014

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