[Acupuncture treatment for a patient with diffuse axonal injury--report no. 2].
Acupuncture has been applied as a therapeutic technique in China, Japan and East Asia. Recently, its application is extended to treat neural injuries. We describe a 26-year-old man with consciousness disturbance and intense muscle spasticity of extremities due to severe diffuse axonal injury (DAI) in whom acupuncture treatment for 1 month was effective to alleviate these symptoms remarkably. We also investigated the cerebral blood flow two times by 123I-IMP SPECT in acupuncture period. Acupuncture treatment may be effective to improve consciousness disturbance and intense spasticity of DAI and to modulate cerebral blood flow.
Tamai
Hideaki
H
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Graduate School Shimotsuke 329-0498.
Kikuchi
Senichiro
S
Kawamura
Yoshifumi
Y
Kanda
Masaru
M
Yamaguchi
Takashi
T
Watanabe
Eiju
E
Saito
Kazuhiko
K
Hyodo
Akira
A
Seo
Norimasa
N
D015670:Acupuncture Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D000328:Adult; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D003244:Consciousness Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D020833:Diffuse Axonal Injury / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009128:Muscle Spasticity / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D016896:Treatment Outcome