{"id":104993,"date":"2020-04-08T23:46:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T06:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/gray-matter-volume-may-indicate-efficacy-of-acupuncture-for-migraine"},"modified":"2020-04-08T23:46:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T06:46:57","slug":"gray-matter-volume-may-indicate-efficacy-of-acupuncture-for-migraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/gray-matter-volume-may-indicate-efficacy-of-acupuncture-for-migraine","title":{"rendered":"Gray Matter Volume May Indicate Efficacy of Acupuncture for Migraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presence and location of gray matter in the brain may indicate whether acupuncture is an effective method of treating migraine without aura, according to a study published in <em>Frontiers in Neurology.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Presence and location of gray matter (GM) in the brain may indicate whether acupuncture is an effective method of treating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajmc.com\/compendium\/migraine\" target=\"_self\">migraine<\/a> without aura (MwoA), according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7066302\/\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> published in <em>Frontiers in Neurology.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In many countries acupuncture is used as a treatment for migraine, but there is insufficient evidence to claim it is effective for all migraineurs. According to researchers, \u201cabout 50% of patients do not achieve substantial improvement after acupuncture.\u201d However, determining which patients may benefit from acupuncture will prevent nonresponders from undergoing time-consuming and unsuccessful treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presence and location of gray matter in the brain may indicate whether acupuncture is an effective method of treating migraine without aura, according to a study published in Frontiers in Neurology. Presence and location of gray matter (GM) in the brain may indicate whether acupuncture is an effective method of treating migraine without aura (MwoA), [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}