title: [Acupuncture treatment for a patient with diffuse axonal injury].
abstract: Acupuncture has been used as a therapeutic technique in China, Japan and East Asia. Recently, it is used to treat neural injuries. We describe a 6-year-old boy with consciousness disturbance and heavy muscle spasticity of extremities due to severe diffuse axonal injury (DAI) in whom acupuncture treatment for 6 months alleviated these symptoms remarkably. Acupuncture treatment may be effective to improve consciousness disturbance and heavy spasticity of DAI.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Graduate School, Tochigi 329-0498.
authors.forename: Hideaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tamai
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
authors.forename: Eiju
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Kazuhiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hyodo
authors.forename: Norimasa
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Seo
mesh_terms: D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D002648:Child; D003244:Consciousness Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D020833:Diffuse Axonal Injury / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D005121:Extremities; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009128:Muscle Spasticity / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome