Acupuncture as a Complementary Treatment for Migraine Headaches

The treatment of migraine headaches has eluded the medical field for decades. Recent advances in pharmaceutical management have helped many migraine sufferers. Reliance on medications for the prevention or rescue of chronic migrainers has many drawbacks such as cost, medicinal side effects and incomplete success from medical treatment. Prevention of migraines has proven especially difficult when solely pharmaceutical interventions are utilized. As in other ailments, the incorporation of multiple treatment strategies may have the best outcome for prevention of migraine and assist patients with thesymptoms of migraine once it has begun.