A clinical study on acupuncture in combination with routine rehabilitation therapy for early pain recovery of post-stroke shoulder-hand syndrome

The clinical effect of acupuncture in combination with rehabilitation therapy for post-stroke shoulder-hand syndrome (SHS) was explored. Patients (178) with post-stroke SHS who received treatment in the Dalian Second Hospital from March 2012 to March 2016 were included in this study. The patients we...

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Published in:Experimental and therapeutic medicine 2018-02, Vol.15 (2), p.2049-2053
Main Authors: Zheng, Jinling, Wu, Qinglian, Wang, Lu, Guo, Ting
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acupuncture
Analysis
Care and treatment
Clinical trials
Disease
Fingers & toes
Males
NMR
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Pain
Pathogenesis
Quality of life
Recovery (Medical)
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
Rehabilitation
Stroke
Trauma
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Summary:The clinical effect of acupuncture in combination with rehabilitation therapy for post-stroke shoulder-hand syndrome (SHS) was explored. Patients (178) with post-stroke SHS who received treatment in the Dalian Second Hospital from March 2012 to March 2016 were included in this study. The patients were divided into experimental group (89 cases) and control group (89 cases). Patients in the control group received rehabilitation therapy, while those in the treatment group received acupuncture treatment in addition to rehabilitation therapy. Visual analogue scale (VAS) was applied to assess the pain degree of patients. Fugl-Meyer assessment (FMA), functional comprehensive assessment (FCA) and assessment of quality of life (QoL) were used to evaluate rehabilitation condition of the patients. Early pain relief, rehabilitation of upper extremity motor function and improvement of QoL after treatment were compared between the two groups. The scores of VAS, FMA, FCA and QoL showed obvious differences between the two groups after treatment (P
ISSN:1792-0981
1792-1015
DOI:10.3892/etm.2017.5659