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Effects of anterior sciatic nerve acupuncture on lower limb paralysis after cerebral infarction:study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

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Stroke is the main cause of disability in the middle and old age.Hemiplegia,especially lower limb paralysis,often leads to the loss of self-care ability and a series of secondary injuries.The main method to improve hemiplegic limb movement is exercise therapy,but there are still many patients with disabilities after rehabilitation treatment.As one of the non-pharmacological therapies for stroke,acupuncture has been recognized to improve motor function in patients.Here,we propose a new method,anterior sciatic nerve acupuncture,which can stimulate both the femoral nerve and the sciatic nerve.We designed this study to determine the effect of this method on lower limb motor function.Sixty participants recruited with hemiplegia after cerebral infarction will be randomly assigned to the test group or control group in a 1∶1 ratio.The control group will receive Xingnao Kaiqiao acupuncture,and the test group will receive anterior sciatic nerve acupuncture on this basis.All participants will get acupuncture treatment once a day,6 times a week for 2 weeks.The primary outcome is Fugl-Meyer Assessment of Lower Extremity and the secondary outcomes are Modified Ashworth Scale and Modified Barthel Index.Data will be collected before treatment,1 week after treatment,and 2 weeks after treatment,and then statistical analysis will be performed.This study can preliminarily verify the effect of anterior sciatic nerve acupuncture on improving lower limb motor function in patients with cerebral infarction,which may provide an alternative approach for clinical treatment of hemiplegia.

anterior sciatic nerveacupunctureparalysiscerebral infarctionXingnao Kaiqiaoclinical protocols

LI Menghan、WANG Yu、RAN Dawei、YANG Xinming、DENG Shizhe、SHI Lei、MENG Zhihong

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Department of Acupuncture,First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine,Tianjin 300193,China

National Clinical Research Center for Chinese Medicine Acupuncture and Moxibustion,Tianjin 300193,China

Graduate department,Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine,Tianjin 301617,China

Department of Massage and Rehabilitation,Second Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine,Tianjin 300250,China

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国家重点研发计划

2018YFC1706001

2024

中医杂志(英文版)
中国中医药学会 中国中医研究院

中医杂志(英文版)

影响因子:0.855
ISSN:0255-2922
年,卷(期):2024.44(1)
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