Acupuncture for the prevention of episodic migraine

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2016, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Linde, Klaus ^a   Allais, Gianni ^b   Brinkhaus, Benno ^c   Fei, Yutong ^d   Mehring, Michael ^a   Vertosick, Emily A ^e   Vickers, Andrew ^e   White, Adrian R ^f  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^e MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^f PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY PENINSULA SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIMIGRAINE AGENT; FLUNARIZINE; METOPROLOL; RIZATRIPTAN; VALPROIC ACID;

ACUPUNCTURE; ACUPUNCTURE NEEDLE; ADVERSE OUTCOME; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EPISODIC MIGRAINE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MIDAS (MIGRAINE); MIGRAINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLACEBO EFFECT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SHAM PROCEDURE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; FEMALE; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; MIGRAINE WITHOUT AURA;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; MIGRAINE WITHOUT AURA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84976303537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD001218.pub3     Document Type: Review

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