[Acupuncture treatment for a patient with diffuse axonal injury].
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.
Tamai
Hideaki
H
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Graduate School, Tochigi 329-0498.
Yamaguchi
Takashi
T
Watanabe
Eiju
E
Saito
Kazuhiko
K
Hyodo
Akira
A
Seo
Norimasa
N
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