[Effect of alternative administration of scalp-acupuncture, body-acupuncture and abdominal-acupuncture on the upper-limb dyscinesia in patients with stroke].
OBJECTIVE
To observe the effect of combined treatment of apoplectic upper-limb dyscinesia with scalp-acupuncture, body-acupuncture and abdominal-acupuncture in stroke patients.


METHODS
A total of 222 stroke patients were randomized into treatment group (n = 133) and control group (n = 89) according to the random number table method. For patients of treatment group, scalp-point used was Motor Area (MS 6); body acupoints were Hegu (LI 4), Quchi (LI 11), Shousanli (LI 10), etc; and abdominal acupoints Zhongwan (CV 12), Qihai (CV 6), etc. For patients in control group, only the same body acupoints were used. Acupuncture treatment was given once daily for 5 weeks. The therapeutic effects were evaluated by Fugl-Meyer motor function assessment (FMA) and Barthel-index (BI) scores.


RESULTS
In comparison with pre-treatment, FMA score and BI score increased significantly 5 weeks, 1 and 3 months in treatment group, 1 and 3 months in control group (P < 0.01). Comparison between two groups showed that both FMA score and BI score of treatment group were markedly higher than those of control group 5 weeks, 1 and 3 months after the treatment (P < 0.01).


CONCLUSIONS
Alternative administration of scalp-acupuncture, body-acupuncture and abdominal acupuncture can effectively improve stroke patients' upper-limb motor function, and its effect is obviously better than that of simple body acupuncture.
Zhou
Wei
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The Stroke Ward, Huguosi Chinese Medicine Hospital Affiliated to Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100035, China. dzhouwei@sina.com
Liu
Hong
H
Wang
Li-Ping
LP
Xu
Zhi-Gang
ZG
Feng
Yong-Wei
YW
Lv
Hui
H
Xie
Yue
Y
Guo
Jun
J
Liu
Miao
M
Liu
Yu
Y
D000005:Abdomen; D015670:Acupuncture Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012535:Scalp; D020521:Stroke / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D034941:Upper Extremity / Q000503:physiopathology*