biomedical teleacupuncture between china and austria using heart rate variability, part 1 poststroke patients中国和奥地利之间生物医学teleacupuncture使用心率变异性,第1部分卒中后患者.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Volume 2011, Article ID 782489, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2011/782489 Research Article Biomedical Teleacupuncture between China and Austria Using Heart Rate Variability, Part 1: Poststroke Patients Lu Wang,1 Jan Valentini,1, 2 Kazuo Sugimoto,2 Weiping Cheng,2 Guangyu Cheng,2 Haoming Geng,2 Ingrid Gaischek,1 Haixue Kuang,2 and Gerhard Litscher1 1 Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, TCM Research Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, 8036 Graz, Austria 2 Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin 150040, China Correspondence should be addressed to Gerhard Litscher, gerhard.litscher@medunigraz.at Received 14 December 2010; Accepted 19 January 2011 Copyright © 2011 Lu Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Background. Acupuncture has been reported to affect the human autonomic system. Within this pilot study, teleacupuncture between China and Austria is used for the first time for quantifying the effects of heart rate variability (HRV) in poststroke rehabilitation. Methods. In 29 Chinese post-stroke patients (15 f, 14 m; mean age ± SD 64.7 ± 11.3 years; range 40–80 years) electrocardiographic signals before, during, and after acupuncture at the acupoint Tongli (HT 5) were recorded in Harbin and analyzed in Graz using teleacupuncture via internet. HRV data were analyzed in the time and frequency domain, and a protocol from Austria was sent to the team in China immediately after the treatment and recording session. Results. Acupuncture does not