[Effect of "Jin three-needle therapy" on cognitive function and activity of daily living in patients of hemiplegia after stroke: a multi-central randomized controlled study].
OBJECTIVE
To provide reliable evidence of "J in three-needle therapy" for treatment of stroke.


METHODS
Multi-central randomized controlled trials were adopted, 180 hemiplegia patients of ischemic stroke were randomly divided into a fin three-needle group (90 cases) and a routine acupuncture group (90 cases). Two groups were both treated with basic neurology therapies, and J in three-needle group was treated with J in three-needle therapy, three acupoints of tempora, hand and foot etc. were selected; the routine acupuncture group was treated with traditional acupuncture, Quchi (LI 11), Huantiao (GB 30), Futu (ST 32) etc. were selected. Both groups were treated with acupuncture for 5 weeks. The cognitive function score of functional comprehensive assessment scale (FCA), the scores of mini-mental state examination scale (MMSE) and modified Barthel index (BI) were compared before and after treatment between two groups. Results After treatment, the scores of FCA, MMSE and BI in both groups were significantly improved compared to those before treatment (P < 0.01, P < 0.05); the improvement of FCA score, MMSE score and BI score in the J in three-needle group were superior to those of the routine acupuncture group after treatment (P < 0.01, P < 0.05). The total effective rate of 85.4% in the J in three-needle group was superior to tohat of 70.0% in the routine acupuncture group (P < 0.05).


CONCLUSIONS
J in three-needle acupuncture treatment can obviously improve the cognitive function and activity ability of daily life of hemiplegia patients after stroke, and the therapeutic effect of J in three-needle therapy is superior to that of traditional acupuncture treatment.
Acupuncture Department, Shanghai TCM Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of TCM, Shanghai 200071, China. xu_teacher2006@126.com
Shi-fen
SF
Xu
Li-xing
LX
Zhuang
Chao
C
Jia
Xing-hua
XH
Chen
Si-ping
SP
Wu
Gui-mei
GM
Jiang
Bo-chang
BC
Zhu
Di-jing
DJ
Xu
Chao-an
CA
Pan
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D015670:Acupuncture Therapy; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020521:Stroke / Q000150:complications*