title: [Efficacy assessment of treating post-stroke shoulder-hand syndrome patients of yin deficiency yang hyperactivity with blood stasis stagnation collaterals syndrome by yishen tongluo decoction].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the efficacy of Yishen Jiejing Decoction (YJD) in treating poststroke shoulder-hand syndrome (SHS) patients of yin deficiency yang hyperactivity with blood stasis stagnation collaterals syndrome.
  
  
  METHODS
  Totally 60 SHS patients of yin deficiency yang hyperactivity with blood stasis stagnation collaterals syndrome were randomly assigned to two groups, the treatment group and the control group, 30 cases in each group. Conventional rehabilitation training and therapeutics were applied in all patients. Besides, patients in the treatment group took 50 mL YJD, twice a day. One month without interruption consisted of one course of treatment. The curative effects of each group were evaluated respectively before treatment and at one month after treatment. The neurologic impairment, TCM syndrome, and the improvement of upper limbs movement were assessed by the neurologic impairment integral, scoring for TCM syndrome diagnostics, Fugl-Meyer Assessment (U-FMA). Adverse reactions were observed at the same time.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The effective rate of stroke was 86.67% and the effective rate of SHS was 90.00% in the treatment group, higher than those of the control group (P < 0.05). Both groups got improvement in neurologic impairment, stroke induced blood stasis syndrome, yin deficiency yang hyperactivity syndrome, and the improvement of upper limbs movement after treatment (all P < 0.05). Besides, all the improvement was obviously superior in the treatment group (P < 0. 05). No adverse reaction occurred during the course of treatment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The curative effect of YJD combined with conventional rehabilitation training was confirmative and superior to the control group.
authors.forename: Xing-Yi
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Shao-Wei
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Ye
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012019:Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D020521:Stroke / Q000150:complications; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D016710:Yin Deficiency / Q000188:drug therapy; D016709:Yin-Yang
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; C525740:yishen