Acupuncture for dysphagia after stroke Clinical Overview.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 16 Acupuncture for dysphagia after stroke Clinical Overview Keywords:] difficulty swallowing, acupuncture, review Dysphagia is the medical “strong words of tongue Jian”, “dumb Rush”, “Houbi” and other areas. Caused by the body after the stroke of yin and yang sour, really yin deficiency, marrow empty, phlegm, blood stasis each end, so that air-occlusive Vision loss barrier Erzhi orifices, opening and closing of the throat and hair loss Secretary based disease. modern medicine, the disease is mainly bilateral cortical brain stem stroke caused by beam damage to pseudobulbar palsy, and then rise to muscles of mastication, genioglossus, lips, muscle, cheek muscle, palate, and pharyngeal muscle weakness, can not be fully mixed into the food bolus and food to the pharynx, often caused by food or liquid into the throat caused by severe cough. dysphagia of acute The most common complication of stroke patients, one of the incidence reported in the literature at home and abroad can be as high as 51% to 73% [1]. dysphagia can cause aspiration pneumonia, asphyxia, malnutrition, dehydration, mental disorders and other complications [ 2], seriously affecting the rehabilitation of stroke, prolonged hospitalization, increased mortality [3]. In this regard, Western medicine is still a lack of effective treatment, and acupuncture in this show a great advantage. acupuncture treatment both local and global , using a local point selection, and experience of selecting points distal acupoints such dialectical method of treatment. The author almost 10 years of acupuncture treatment on clinical reports of this disease are summarized below. 1 Point Selection rules 1.1 The main local acupoints Local acupoints and more concentrated in the head and neck acupuncture points, using tongue acupuncture and ear acupuncture, with its mainly based on meridian theory, “which acupoints, attending clinics.” Song et al [4] scalp treatment with dysphagia due to ps