NCT01152632

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

Acupuncture Treatment for Migraine: a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 17 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed description

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.

Conditions

• Migraine

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	manual acupuncture	thirty minutes duration every time, five times per week for one course, a total four courses

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-01-01
• Primary completion: 2013-06-01
• Completion: 2013-12-01
• First posted: 2010-06-29
• Last updated: 2014-12-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China