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Migraine is a debilitating headache disorder associated with rather high healthcare costs and lost work days costs (estimated nearly $13 billion annually in the USA as a result of 113 million lost work days). Despite numerous drugs available many patients are unresponsive to treatment or suffer from undesirable side-effects of drugs. Acupuncture is a promising treatment modality for migraine that can be used both in combination with drugs or as a stand-alone therapy. We present recent advances regarding ongoing research of acupunture in migraine treatment.

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Acupuncture is a well-established treatment option for patients with acute or chronic pain of various etiologies, including tumours. Spinal tumours, although rare among patients with pain syndromes, should be part of the differential diagnosis. We present an interesting case of acupuncture-induced analgesia in a patient suffering from low back pain and sciatica, due to a lumbar spinal nerve root tumour, who refused to receive surgical treatment