Acupuncture for Prophylaxis of Vestibular Migraine

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.