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Appliccation Of Electroacupuncture For The Treatment Of Psot-Stroke Paresthesia, Baii-Jia Yang, Yih-Sin Chen

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

In a prospective study we applied electroacupuncture, according to the concepts of Traditional Chinese Medicine and previous studies of electrostimulation, to patients suffering from post-stroke paresthesia.Electroacupuncture over the head and limbs was applied to 20 patients with post-stroke paresthesia. All patients received brain CT scan examination of which most revealed subcortical lesions (19 subcorlicai lesions and 1middle cerebral arterial territory infarction). The duration of treatment was thirty minutes and each patient received electroacupuncture treatment once per week for 3 months. The evaluation of the treatment effect was according to the patient's self-estimation using a visual analogue scale. The results demonstrated …