Deans' stroke musings: Clinical observation on acupuncture combined with Chinese medicine and rehabilitation training for subacute stroke patients

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Clinical observation on acupuncture combined with Chinese medicine and rehabilitation training for subacute stroke patients

Nothing here can be specifically assigned to acupuncture use. In this setting everything can be associated with spontaneous recovery. Acupuncture can have no effect because there are no proven energy meridians. A Fugl-Meyer Assessment is not objective so no credence can be assigned to those test results using that as an endpoint.
This would all have to be placebo or spontaneous recovery.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11726-015-0871-5

Kai-tao Luo罗开涛
, Gao-feng Zhu朱高峰
, Lai-hua Shen沈来华
, Feng Gao高峰
, Li-feng Qian钱立锋

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Abstract

Objective

To observe the clinical effect of combining acupuncture, Chinese medicine and rehabilitation training for subacute stroke.

Methods

A total of 120 subacute stroke cases were randomly allocated into a treatment group (n=60) and a control group (n=60). Patients in the control group received standard rehabilitation therapy alone, whereas patients in the observation group received additional acupuncture and Chinese medicine. Before treatment, after 30-day and 60-day treatments, and 3 months after treatment, the neurologic deficit severity was evaluated using the National Institute of Health stroke scale (NIHSS); the motor function was evaluated using the Fugl-Meyer assessment scale (FMA); the activities of daily living (ADL) was evaluated using the Barthel index (BI); and the changes of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) symptoms were evaluated according to TCM symptom scores.

Results

After 30-day, 60-day treatments, and 3 months after treatment, the NIHSS, FMA, BI and TCM symptoms scores were statistically different from those before treatment in both groups (all P<0.05); and there were between-group statistical differences at same time points (all P<0.05).

Conclusion

Combining acupuncture, Chinese medicine and rehabilitation training can improve neurologic deficit, motor function and ADL in subacute stroke patients and its efficacy is better than rehabilitation therapy alone.