{"id":105919,"date":"2025-03-13T17:39:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/warns-against-medical-piercing-against-migraine-and-anxiety-news-ostfold-local-news-tv-and-radio\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T17:39:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:39:51","slug":"warns-against-medical-piercing-against-migraine-and-anxiety-news-ostfold-local-news-tv-and-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/warns-against-medical-piercing-against-migraine-and-anxiety-news-ostfold-local-news-tv-and-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Warns against medical piercing against migraine and anxiety – news \u00d8stfold – local news, TV and radio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The case summarized: Medical piercing is promoted on social media as a treatment for migraine, cluster headache and anxiety. Professionals and the Patient Association Headache Norway warns against this treatment and has notified the Consumer Authority, because there is no scientific support for the effect. Piercer Atle Ivar Karlsen offers this treatment and claims that many patients have been given a new life after receiving such a piercing. Anne Hege Aamodt, specialist in neurology and head of the scientific committee of the Norwegian Center for Headache Research (Norhead), strongly advises this treatment and believes it provides false hopes. Piercer Atle Ivar Karlsen wants to establish a collaboration with headaches Norway and Norhead to conduct scientific studies on medical piercing. The summary is made by a Ki service from Openai. The content is quality assured by news’s \u200b\u200bjournalists before publishing. – I am afraid that those who suffer from migraine and cluster headaches will have a false hope. This is stated by Secretary General Laila Bratterud Mathisen in Headache Norway. She is worried about what she describes as a growing trend. In recent years, the interest organization has received more and more inquiries about so -called medical piercings. Medical piercing is placed on the inner cartilage fold over the eardrum. Photo: Even Bj\u00f8rings\u00f8y Johnsen \/ news Also on social media, the phenomenon is visible. Videos of needles that go through a special point in the ear get thousands of likes. Often, “patients” are asked if they notice an effect immediately after the piercing is set. – They are full of adrenaline. Then it’s easy to say that “yes, yes, I may feel a little better”. They are used as a witness and advertising on social media, says Mathisen. Piercing against migraine and anxiety in Fredrikstad, Atle Ivar Karlsen works as a piercer. He says that when he started it was “a bunch of ladies” outside who had a headache. Therefore, he started a course on ear acupuncture at the Department of Overall Medicine. Karlsen wants more acceptance for alternative treatment such as medical piercing. Photo: Even Bj\u00f8rings\u00f8y Johnsen \/ news In June 2024 he sat his first medical piercing. The piercing should be able to treat both chronic migraine, cluster headaches and anxiety, Karlsen claims. – The patients who come to me are not healthy. They come because the medicines do not work well enough. Many say they have been given a new life after giving them such a piercing. It’s pretty strong stuff, says Karlsen. He follows up those who are pierced four weeks, three months and six months after the procedure. – They think it is very strange and feel light in the body. They are rid of the headache and say it is fantastic to not have to walk around with migraines all the time, says Karlsen. He also notices increasing interest. In addition to being a piercer, he is educated and works as an orthopedic engineer. Interest organization: – Unethical Karlsen actively uses social media to spread the word about the possible effect of medical piercing. So does other tattoo and piercing studios in Norway. He films the patients and at the end of each video, Karlsen says “medical piercing works”. The most popular video has over 100,000 views. – In order for people to know what we are doing at all, I cling to a little and market what works for exactly the patient I have in the chair there and then, says Karlsen. On social media, Karlsen markets that medical piercing has an effect. Photo: Screenshot\/Instagram The practice reacts headache Norway and Secretary General Mathiesen strongly to. Mathisen believes that several of these studios are advertising a medical treatment, despite the fact that medical piercing is not a scientifically recognized treatment. Headache Norway has notified Karlsen to the Consumer Authority for misleading marketing. Photo: Jarle Hvidsten \/ Headache Norway \/ JHS She thinks it is misleading marketing. – It is unethical that someone who does not have a medical background offers a medical treatment. They say I can help you get better, but they are not health professionals and have no background to say what they say. Anne Hege Aamodt is a specialist in neurology and head of the scientific committee in the Norwegian Center for Headache Research (Norhead). She agrees with Mathisen. – It is not so easy for the individual customer to know what is a documented treatment or not. The fact that individuals report effect is not the same as the documented effect. The Consumer Authority notified headaches Norway has sent a concern message to the Consumer Authority about Karlsen’s studio and another piercing studio in Eastern Norway. They have not assessed the practice that is being tipped down, but the Consumer Authority generally states about the regulations of news. Dietzel says on a general basis that it is not allowed to market that alternative treatment has an effect. Photo: Dag Jenssen \/ Consumer Authority \/ news Deputy Director Nina Elise Dietzel in the Consumer Authority’s supervisory department states that an alternative therapist can market to treat specific diseases and disorders, such as migraines. – But it is by no means allowed to market that the treatment has an effect on a specific disease or disorder. Then the prohibition of effect claims is violated in the regulations on marketing alternative treatment. This also applies to social media. “The effect of alternative therapies is usually lacking scientific support, and therefore it is also not allowed to claim that the treatment has an effect,” says Dietzel. She also states that the use of statements from satisfied customers, image use and reference to research can cause the marketing to be affected by the ban on effect claims. Professionals warn due to lack of scientific studies, medical piercing is not recognized as a medical treatment and professionals warn against it. – We cannot recommend this treatment, says neurologist Aamodt. The head of the scientific committee at the Norwegian Center for Headache Research, Anne Hege Aamodt, says there is no documented effect of medical piercing. Photo: Even Bj\u00f8rings\u00f8y Johnsen \/ news For the past 20 years she has worked with patients suffering from migraine and strong headaches. – There is no documented effect of medical piercing at migraine, cluster headache or other types of headaches, explains Aamodt. As of today, there are also no studies on the treatment, according to the study database ClinicalRials.com. – It is important that people know that this is not treatment with documented effect. We are concerned that people do not get false hopes that this is the solution. You often reach the goal with simple and affordable preparations, says Aamodt. PIECER: – Withstands the light of day Atle Ivar Karlsen welcomes a debate about the treatment. – If you do something that can’t tolerate the light of day, it’s not good. Then you are a scoundrel. This can withstand the light of day, and it is high time that we grab it. Karlsen wants a collaboration with Headache Norway and Norhead to get a study in place. Photo: Even Bj\u00f8rings\u00f8y Johnsen \/ news Karlsen acknowledges that there is a challenge that there are not enough studies on medical piercing. He wants to do something about it himself, and has contacted Headache Norway and Norhead to establish a collaboration. He knows well himself that the treatment he offers is disputed. He is now awaiting a conclusion from the Consumer Authority. – If I have fucked out, I have to change practice. Published 13.03.2025, at. 18.34
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