Acupuncture treatment of chronic facial pain - a controlled cross-over trial

Author(s): Hansen, J.

Journal/Book: Headache. 1983; 23: 66-69.

Abstract: In a controlled trial the effect of traditional Chinese ac puncture versus placebo acupuncture was evaluated in 16 patients with chronic facial pain (13 atypical facial pain, 2 atypical an 1 typical trigeminal neuralgia). All patients suffered from daily pain. the intensity of which was recorded by the patients over a period of 16 weeks. Each patient was treated by traditional Chinese acupuncture as well as placebo acupuncture in a cross-over design following randomization. Each period of treatment comprised 10 treatrnents during two weeks of hospitallzation.Traditional Chinese acupuncture was found to be significantly more pain-relieving than placebo acupuncture according to the pain registration of the patients themselves and to their subjective preferences.

Keyword(s): Clinical trial

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