Deans' stroke musings: Digital Acupuncture Promote Post-Stroke Motor Rehabilitation among Aging Population: A Prospective Clinical and Neuroimaging Study

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.

Friday, September 6, 2024

Digital Acupuncture Promote Post-Stroke Motor Rehabilitation among Aging Population: A Prospective Clinical and Neuroimaging Study

Impossible to have effects except as a placebo. Energy meridians have never been proven to exist.

No mechanism of action is possible.

Digital Acupuncture Promote Post-Stroke Motor Rehabilitation among Aging Population: A Prospective Clinical and Neuroimaging Study

Tianzhu Chen

Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100700

Chen Chen

Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100700

Tianyan Chen

School of Journalism and Communication, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872

Yong Zhang

Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100700

Yihuai Zou

Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100700

Synopsis

Acupuncture may be a promising adjunct to western medicine for aging stroke rehabilitation clinically, but the visualized and explanatory evidence is limited in post-stroke neuroplasticity. To explore the target effects and digital evidence on neuroplasticity of acupuncture for post-stroke motor rehabilitation among aging population. Ischaemic stroke patients (n = 29) whose lesions located on right subcortical ganglia and duration within 6 weeks were asked to receive the acupuncture-intervened neuroimaging assessments, with acupuncture at GB34 and non-acupoint of GB34 (NA_GB34) on 2-week interval. Healthy controls (n = 26) were matched to receive once GB34-intervened neuroimaging assessment. Per-protocol analysis of clinical and neuroimaging was performed to investigate the digital effects of acupuncture. Specifically, voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivity (VMHC) combined with grey relational analysis was to identify the pathological characteristics and specificity of GB34.