A March 2020 study found that after acupuncture there was, "… a significantly higher reduction in the frequency of migraine days and migraine attacks," and that acupuncture "can be recommended as a prophylactic treatment" and that patients should be “.provided with information about acupuncture as an option when discussing prophylactic treatment strategies."
Heather Angus-Leppan, a consultant neurologist at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust in an editorial said, “We now have good evidence that acupuncture is an effective treatment for episodic migraine," and that "acupuncture provides a useful additional tool in our therapeutic armoury." Angus-Leppan said that the report, “helps to move acupuncture from having an unproven status in complementary medicine to an acceptable evidence-based treatment,"