The effect of acupuncture in chronic intractable epilepsy

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....

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Published in:Seizure (London, England) England), 1999-05, Vol.8 (3), p.170-174
Main Authors: Kloster, Robert, Larsson, Pal G., Lossius, Rasmus, Nakken, Dahl, Renate, Xiu-Ling, Xue, Kinge, Einar, Wen-Xin, Zhou, Edna Røssberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
acupuncture
Acupuncture Points - classification
Acupuncture Therapy - methods
Adult
Chronic Disease
Electroencephalography
epilepsy
Epilepsy - diagnosis
Epilepsy - therapy
Female
Humans
Male
Medicine, Chinese Traditional
Single-Blind Method
Statistics, Nonparametric
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1059-1311
1532-2688
DOI:10.1053/seiz.1999.0278