Deans' stroke musings: A Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study on the Efficacy of Brain Function Rehabilitation in Post-Stroke Hemiplegia Using Scalp Acupuncture

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.

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

A Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study on the Efficacy of Brain Function Rehabilitation in Post-Stroke Hemiplegia Using Scalp Acupuncture

No idea on how they can logically come up with their conclusion since it is impossible for acupuncture to do anything. Placebo is strong here or maybe spontaneous recovery.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asp/jmihi/2015/00000005/00000008/art00027

Authors: Jiang, Sizhu; Zhang, Genming; Li, Kuangshi; Lang, Yi; Tan, Zhongjian; Zhang, Yong; Zou, Yihuai; Wu, Yufeng; Cui, Fangyuan

Source: Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, Volume 5, Number 8, December 2015, pp. 1752-1758(7)
Publisher: American Scientific Publishers

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Abstract:

As one of the rehabilitation therapies for stroke-induced hemiplegia, central mechanisms of therapeutic effects of the scalp acupuncture remain poorly understood. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to explore the effect of scalp acupuncture on post-stroke hemiplegia patients. We recruited ten patients with left hemiplegia and ten healthy subjects for this study and randomly assigned patients to two groups: the acupuncture group (scalp acupuncture plus usual care, N = 5, average age = 65.6±4.0) and the control group (usual care, N = 5, average age = 55.2±9.8). We scanned all patients before and after the 14-day therapy and then calculated the functional connectivity (FC) between the seed point (left primary motor cortex BA4) and other brain regions. At the beginning of the study, patients showed negative activations in the left motor cortex and positive activations in the bilateral cerebellum. After the scalp acupuncture therapy, the patients showed a decrease of negatively activated regions, as well as an increase in regions with positive activations, which the control group didn't have. These changes in the acupuncture group indicated that the treatment had driven the brain activity from the unaffected side to the affected side. Our results suggested that the scalp acupuncture therapy markedly improved the brain function in left hemiplegic patients and could potentially help the recovery of mobility.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/jmihi.2015.1640