ACUPUNCTURE SHOWN TO RELIEVE TENSION HEADACHES.

German researchers found that acupuncture is an effective treatment for patients suffering from tension headaches. Over an eight-week period, Dr. Wolfgang Weidenhammer and his team compared traditional Chinese acupuncture, minimal acupuncture (the needles are inserted superficially in the skin), and no treatment. The headache rate in patients given the traditional treatment and the minimal acupuncture had similar results – the subjects experienced 7 fewer days of headaches and 6.6 fewer days of headaches, respectively in the four weeks following the treatment. The control group, which received no treatment, had 1.5 fewer headache days. “A significant proportion of patients with tension-type headaches benefited from acupuncture,” said Dr. Weidenhammer. Acupuncture cut the rate of headaches by nearly half. (“Acupuncture shown to relieve tension headaches,” July 29, 2005, <http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/acupuncture_dc>(July 29, 2005)).