“What does acupuncture do for headaches?”

acupuncture helps relieve headaches. for chronic headache conditions you might need many treatments. but usually after just one treatment you will see improvement

Acupuncture relieves the pressure rebalancing the flow of energy or Qi so it is not concentrated or deficient in the head.

It depends on the type of headaches, what’s causing them and where, on the head, the pain is. But, generally, acupuncture can help reduce the frequency and severity of headaches.

Very vague question. There are many types of headaches, and locations of the headache. Overall, acupuncture is very effective. If headaches continue, please get a scan of the brain to rule out occupying lesion.

Yes, if doctors really can find the symptoms causing.

Balance Method Acupuncture can work immediately to relieve headaches upon needle insertion. Acupuncture increases circulation and decreases inflammation in the head region. This helps speed up the recovery process from any head issues.

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It stops or reduces them.

Acupuncture is focused on regulating your circadian rhythm, hormones, and circulation flow. Headaches are most often from excess blood flow to the head. With acupuncture focusing on regulating circulation flow, the main theory is that it will help drain the energy & blood flow in the head down to the legs & feet balancing it out. Some headaches may have a different cause, where modern medicine will prescribe medication for the headache in hopes to resolve it Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) can specify the diagnosis and cause by the symptoms presented, i.e., a patient presenting with tension headaches along the side of the head are most likely from stress, and someone presenting headaches along their forehead may be suffering from skipping a meal. In any case, always get checked by your primary and find out what methods of treatment are best for your condition.

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Acupuncture is widely used for preventing migraine attacks although its effectiveness has not yet been fully established. There are some clinical trials like this one: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/200822

That stablished that acupuncture is not better than sham acupuncture but better than the controlled group (with their normal medication).

My recommendation is that you see a qualified Licensed acupuncturist to see if acupuncture is good for you.

It very much depends on what is causing the headache. Acupuncture is very well known for helping with stress and tension headaches and I know from personal experience that it's also very helpful in reducing the frequency and duration of migraines.

Many times the headaches are caused because the energy gets stuck in the head. The acupuncture treatment helps to clear the energy out of the head and helps to dissolve the headaches

Acupuncture seeks to restore the flow of positive energy throughout our body. The needle stimulates the nerves to release hormones, such as endorphins, that trigger a response from your body. The face has three channels. The needle stimulate three channels and each acupuncture points.

Acupuncture is very effective for headache issues. Most important is a correct diagnosis, only then, acupuncture can work for you. You will feel the immediate release after the treatment.

I've been very successful identifying causes and irritants for a wide range of headache complaints ranging from cluster headaches to migraines. Acupuncture is a very effective treatment I've used in many of my cases where headaches were the complaint. Some migraine sufferers even report no further suffering! It's not a quick fix, but is very affordable and with lasting results!

It can help to relieve or eliminate headaches.

In our East Asian medical philosophy, we see pain as ALWAYS coming from a stagnation of Qi/Life Force/Energy, regardless of whether it was caused by physical trauma or an internal imbalance. As such, acupuncture stimulates the Qi to move... and this act relieves the pain.

Go to NIH.org to find research studies on this subject.

Can help amazingly well

Acupuncture can stop headaches.

I'm not sure what you're asking. There are many kinds of headaches, and acupuncture can be effective in stopping many of them.

Acupuncture can help alleviate and prevent headaches and migraines.

The simplest answer to your question is: it helps to relieve them.

It's complicated to explain everything that acupuncture might be doing when considering its mechanism of action in a condition like headache. We have lots of studies looking at biochemical changes as a result of receiving acupuncture in a wide variety of conditions. The problem is: from the standpoint of conventional science/medicine, biochemistry is often the only consideration.

Studies show acupuncture exerting a wide range of effects from altering muscle tone of internal organs, dilating blood vessels and bronchi, stimulating smooth muscle contraction in the GI tract, releasing endogenous opiate peptides, up-regulating mu-receptors in the brain, regulating neurotransmitters involved in the propagation of sensory/pain signaling, changing the way the brain processes sensory/pain signaling, regulating insulin and other digestive hormones, regulating sex hormones, down regulating the immune system via interaction with prostaglandins and interleukins, and probably dozens of other documented effects that I'm not remembering right now.

Does biochemistry account for all these effects? Maybe, maybe not.

Is it the case the acupuncture is always stimulating all these effects? We don't know.

Western science is based largely on reductionism and, as far as I'm aware, there has been no study performed that documents whether or not all potential effects are always part and parcel with an acupuncture treatment. In some ways, executing a study like this would be breaking core study methodology.

So, given all that, what can we say? We can say, with a great deal of confidence, that acupuncture has an excellent track record in pain management and this includes more neurologic type issues like headache and migraine. At least one researcher has gone on record stating that if acupuncture were a pharmaceutical, given the current state of evidence, we'd have to say that acupuncture works and has effect beyond placebo.

We can also say that acupuncture, when performed by a board certified and state licensed acupuncturist, is extremely safe with a very low incidence of either side-effect or adverse event.