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Acupuncture and Auricular Cryotherapy for Chronic Headache in a Patient with Type Iii Von Willebrand Disease

Acupuncture and Auricular Cryotherapy for Chronic Headache in a Patient with Type Iii Von... Letter have required hospital attendance, prophylactic lifestyle changes and Acupuncture and auricular admission and treatment with IV pharmacological strategies without cryotherapy for chronic ketorolac and mannitol. CT and success. Topiramate was proposed headache in a patient with MR scans have been performed but the patient refused it and then, five times in the past 3 years and as the NICE guidelines suggest, type III von Willebrand were always negative. we decided to treat the patient disease After the initial consultation, the by a Western-medical acupuncture patient was asked to register pain approach, following the patient’s 2 3 45 A 42-year-old women was referred intensity, duration and drug con- preferences. Reviews and reports to our pain therapy centre in April sumption in a diary for 6 weeks support the use of somatic and aur- 2013 owing to a worsening before the beginning of acupunc- icular acupuncture for the treatment migraine. She was known to have ture therapy; amitriptyline 10 mg/ of migraine but as auricular need- von Willebrand disease type III com- day was given and rizatriptan 5 mg ling had to be avoided in this plicated by the development of was the rescue treatment. No patient, we used superficial http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acupuncture in Medicine SAGE

Acupuncture and Auricular Cryotherapy for Chronic Headache in a Patient with Type Iii Von Willebrand Disease

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Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© 2014 British Medical Acupuncutre Society
ISSN
0964-5284
eISSN
1759-9873
DOI
10.1136/acupmed-2014-010632
pmid
25149180
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Abstract

Letter have required hospital attendance, prophylactic lifestyle changes and Acupuncture and auricular admission and treatment with IV pharmacological strategies without cryotherapy for chronic ketorolac and mannitol. CT and success. Topiramate was proposed headache in a patient with MR scans have been performed but the patient refused it and then, five times in the past 3 years and as the NICE guidelines suggest, type III von Willebrand were always negative. we decided to treat the patient disease After the initial consultation, the by a Western-medical acupuncture patient was asked to register pain approach, following the patient’s 2 3 45 A 42-year-old women was referred intensity, duration and drug con- preferences. Reviews and reports to our pain therapy centre in April sumption in a diary for 6 weeks support the use of somatic and aur- 2013 owing to a worsening before the beginning of acupunc- icular acupuncture for the treatment migraine. She was known to have ture therapy; amitriptyline 10 mg/ of migraine but as auricular need- von Willebrand disease type III com- day was given and rizatriptan 5 mg ling had to be avoided in this plicated by the development of was the rescue treatment. No patient, we used superficial

Journal

Acupuncture in MedicineSAGE

Published: Oct 1, 2014

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