Acupuncture for Prophylaxis of Vestibular Migraine
Status:
Not yet recruiting
Trial end date:
2023-12-31
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
With its high incidence rate and low diagnosis rate, vestibular migraine (VM) can seriously
affect patients' quality of life. Current treatment of VM mainly contain rescue treatment and
prophylaxis, both of which are often pharmacological-based therapies and bring a series of
unavoidable side effects, which leads to poor compliance of patients. Moreover, frequent VM
attacks can seriously affect patients' daily life and work. Therefore, prophylaxis treatment
is of great significance for VM patients. As a non-pharmarceutical therapy, acupuncture is
widely used for a wide range of migrainous and emotional disorders. Thus, it might be an
alternative treatment for VM, but current evidence remains inconclusive. The aim of this
randomized controlled trial is to investigate the prophylactic efficacy and safety of
acupuncture therapy in patients with VM.