Acupuncture for Headaches

According to the British Acupuncture Council website ‘Headaches affect 80% of the adult population in the UK and are often more prevalent in women’.

The term ‘Tension type headache’ is used to describe both frequent and infrequent episodes as well as chronic tension-type headaches which can often develop into a migraine.

Where headaches are typically quite mild in pain intensity and can last from minutes to days, migraines are usually more severe in pain and can last from 4 to 72 hours at any one time.

Both of these conditions can severely affect individuals but acupuncture tries to significantly help in managing this pain.

Acupuncture for Headaches
Acupuncture for Headaches

Acupuncture aims to help relieve the pain caused by headaches and migraines by stimulating the nervous system; causing the release of neurochemical messenger molecules which work to deactivate the ‘analytical’ part of the brain responsible for anxiety and worry.

By stimulating these acupoints the brains sensitivity to pain and stress appears to be reduced, allowing increased relaxation.

The British Acupuncture Council shows strong supporting evidence for using acupuncture to treat both headaches and migraines.

Recent results consistently show that ‘acupuncture is significantly better than no treatment/basic care for managing migraines, and appears to be at least as effective as prophylactic drug therapy, with few contraindications or unpleasant side effects’.

The evidence for headaches also states that ‘the most up-to-date and highest quality systematic review showed that there are clinically relevant benefits of adding acupuncture to routine care and also a statistical advantage of ‘true’ acupuncture over sham interventions’.

Acupressure At Home

This video explains how you can activate the ‘Liver 2’ point at home. This helps drain heat from the body which can ease headaches, dizziness and hot flushes.

 

Free No Obligation Assessment

At Acupuncture That Works we are happy to talk to you if you are suffering from headaches or migraines and will be glad to offer you a free no-obligation assessment and discuss the benefits that acupuncture treatment could bring. Please call us on 0800 051 76 88 to make your appointment.

Acupuncture That Works are based in Northwich and provide acupuncture treatment services for Northwich and the whole of Cheshire.

Disclaimer: At Acupuncture That Works we are conscious that there are lots of claims made about the results that people can get from using Acupuncture. To be clear, we aim to make no such claims ourselves. We will never claim that Acupuncture will work within a specified time nor that it will bring a specified result. We can say that is possible to deliver short term improvement and short term relief in certain circumstances. It is not and never will be, a miracle cure.