“I was skeptical at first, but pressing these points during a migraine actually helped reduce my pain significantly,” shares a 34-year-old teacher from Boston. “Now it’s my first line of ...

Acupressure is a type of complementary therapy that may help to alleviate symptoms of migraine headaches. This technique involves stimulating distinct pressure points on different parts of the body.

Stimulating pressure points through acupuncture or acupressure may help manage migraine. Read on to explore the best pressure points for migraine management. If you have chronic migraine, you’re ...

Recipients of ‘true acupuncture’ were treated in four acupoints chosen by clinical experts. The four points used for the ‘sham’ group were chosen to avoid migraine relief.

More evidence points to acupuncture's significant benefit as a migraine treatment. Results of a randomized single-blind study show participants receiving acupuncture experienced about two fewer ...

True acupuncture beat out sham acupuncture and being wait-listed for acupuncture in reducing migraine frequency and severity in patients without aura, in a new study.

Twenty weeks after receiving treatment at five times a week, patients in the true acupuncture group saw a reduction in the average number of migraines from 4.8 per month to 3 per month, with no ...

Effectiveness of Ropivacaine Trigger Points Inactivation in the Prophylactic Management of Patients with Severe Migraine. Pain Medicine, 2007; 8 (1): 65 DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2007.00251.x ...