Acupuncture and physical therapy treatment of 30 cases of stroke.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 8 Acupuncture and physical therapy treatment of 30 cases of stroke [Keywords:] stroke, acupuncture, exercise therapy Stroke is the world’s three major life threatening diseases, hemiplegia after stroke is the main function of the remaining obstacles to the decreased quality of life of patients, to society and the family brought a heavy burden. This paper by observing the stroke After treatment, patients with hemiplegia after somatic changes in activities of daily living to explore the efficacy of acupuncture and physical therapy. An object and methods 1.1 The objects were 60 cases of stroke patients in our hospital, in line with the Fourth National Cerebrovascular Diseases 1995, adopted the “elements of various types of cerebrovascular disease in the diagnosis of” diagnostic criteria. Are after the onset of 10 ~ 20 d, mind clear, stable condition, Modified Barthel Index score (Barthel) 25 points for the severe functional defects (1). excluded from consciousness, intellectual decline, incontinence, and heart, kidney, lungs and other vital organs suffer severe brain lesions and previous stroke and the left limb dysfunction. randomly divided into treatment and control groups. the treatment group of 30 patients, 16 males and 14 females, aged 50 to 70 (mean 63.7 years, 14 cases of left hemiplegia, right hemiparesis in 16 cases . control group of 30 patients, 17 male and 13 female, aged 49 to 72 (mean 62.9) years, 15 cases of left hemiplegia, right hemiparesis in 15 cases. the two groups were compared with age and gender composition was no significant difference, with comparability. The control group received acupuncture treatment, acupuncture treatment group on the basis of the imposed exercise therapy. 1.2 Methods acupuncture. Use 1.0 to 2.0-inch needle, upper limb acupoints: polar spring, shoulder falcon, Ze-foot, hand three years, Hegu, Yang River, lower limb acupoints: thigh clearance, a sea of blood, Venezuela, Hong Leong ,