Post-stroke shoulder - hand syndrome treated with TCM.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 15 Post-stroke shoulder - hand syndrome treated with TCM [Abstract] shoulder - hand syndrome is a common complication after stroke, the rehabilitation of severely affected patients, this therapy is limited in modern medicine, traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of disease, a unique side effects. In this paper, the nearest five years, the disease status of traditional Chinese medicine are reviewed. [Keywords:] shoulder - hand syndrome, Chinese medicine treatment of Stroke Shoulder - hand syndrome (shoulder-hand syndrome, SHS), also known as post-stroke reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome (reflex sympathetic dystrophy, RSD), is a common complication of patients with hemiplegia and its incidence of 12% ~ 74.1 % [1]. According to clinical manifestations, RSD can be divided into three: Ⅰ period of performance for the hand swelling, color change, shoulders, hands are painful dyskinesia; Ⅱ period of performance for the shoulder, hand pain, dyskinesia relieved swelling and color changes in parts of to reduce or completely disappeared, began to muscle atrophy; Ⅲ period of performance for the hand and shoulder showed dystrophic changes, muscle atrophy clear that the activities of limited joints, contracture [2]. RSD Without timely treatment, hand skin and muscle atrophy, finger contracture, X line, there are a wide range of bone erosion, loss of hand function [3]. SHS aspects of Chinese medicine in the treatment efficacy of a unique, but a single treatment with a slow onset, the effect is low, the general treatment of the disease is a therapy mainly combined with other therapies. Is now nearly five years, the progress of Chinese medicine treatment of SHS summarized as follows: A traditional Chinese medicine 1.1 Traditional Chinese Medicine External Cai Chao [4] reported that drug treatment will be hot (from Sichuan off, wide tendons rattan, composed of living alone, with gauze packed into the pouch, each packet of 150 g) of iron