The effect of acupuncture in chronic intractable epilepsy
Item
Title
The effect of acupuncture in chronic intractable epilepsy
Author(s)
Journal Publication
Date
1999
volume
8(3)
pages
170-174
Research Type
RCT
Keywords
Abstract
We examined the effect of acupuncture on epileptic seizures in humans in a controlled clinical setting. Treatment was administered by two Chinese professors of acupuncture. Effect was measured by change in seizure frequency. Twenty-nine patients with chronic intractable epilepsy completed the study. They were randomized in two groups; 15 were given classical acupuncture and 14 were given sham acupuncture. There was a reduction in seizure frequency in both groups, which did not reach a level of statistical significance. There was also an increase in the number of seizure-free weeks in both groups, which reached a level of significance in the sham group. Thus, we have not been able to prove a beneficial effect of acupuncture in chronic intractable epilepsy
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has health condition studied
Nervous System Diseases
plan
1/WK
has study population number
39
has duration
8 Weeks