Urits Ivan, Patel Megha, Putz Mary Elizabeth, Monteferrante Nikolas R, Nguyen Diep, An Daniel, Cornett Elyse M, Hasoon Jamal, Kaye Alan D, Viswanath Omar
Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center-Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Neurol Ther. 2020 Dec;9(2):375-394. doi: 10.1007/s40120-020-00216-1. Epub 2020 Oct 1.
Acupuncture is a form of traditional Chinese medicine that is performed by placing needles or pressure in specific locations on a patient's skin to achieve a therapeutic effect. Although used to treat a variety of disorders, one of the most common applications of acupuncture is to treat chronic pain, especially headache and migraine pain. Migraines are difficult to treat, and pharmacotherapies are often the first line of treatment, although these options have many unwanted side effects, such as exacerbation of headache pain in those with chronic migraine. Many complimentary and integrative therapies are available to treat migraine (including nutraceuticals, yoga, tai chi, and biofeedback), among which acupuncture as a treatment is gaining increasing attention. In this review, we provide an overview of the current understanding of both acupuncture and migraine and of current research investigating the effectiveness of acupuncture in treating migraine and chronic migraine.
针灸是中医的一种形式，通过将针具刺入或按压患者皮肤的特定部位来达到治疗效果。尽管针灸用于治疗多种疾病，但其最常见的应用之一是治疗慢性疼痛，尤其是头痛和偏头痛。偏头痛难以治疗，药物疗法通常是一线治疗方法，尽管这些选择有许多不良副作用，例如慢性偏头痛患者头痛疼痛加剧。有许多辅助和综合疗法可用于治疗偏头痛（包括营养保健品、瑜伽、太极拳和生物反馈疗法），其中针灸作为一种治疗方法正受到越来越多的关注。在这篇综述中，我们概述了目前对针灸和偏头痛的认识，以及当前研究针灸治疗偏头痛和慢性偏头痛有效性的情况。
