Headaches (Tension-Type)

Acupuncture may provide short-term relief from tension-type headaches.

Treatment of tension-type headaches with acupuncture involves taking a detailed medical history to find out the underlying cause.  Lifestyle and diet advice may be given.

Testimonials - what do people say?

“I am less symptomatic between sessions and have a increase in general wellbeing.” Mark

“Thank you for doing all you could to make my tension headaches better. You have helped me a lot” James

You can read more testimonials here.

A recent review of studies on headaches has shown that “acupuncture could be a valuable non-pharmacological tool in patients with frequent episodic or chronic tension-type headaches”. 

For the full text, you can read Linde’s Acupuncture for tension-type headache (Review).

You can read an article about the research here: Acupuncture ‘works for headaches’, BBC News, 21/1/09.