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Therapeutic observation on acupoint injection for post-stroke deglutition disorder
Journal of Acupuncture and Tuina Science, 06/13/2012
Clinical Article
Xue WX et al. – Acupoint injection can achieve a satisfactory result in treating post–stroke deglutition disorder.
Methods- Eighty patients with post–stroke deglutition disorder were randomized into a treatment group and a control group, 40 in each.
- The treatment group received acupoint injection in addition to routine Western medication, and the control group received the routine Western medication only.
- The treatment results in the two groups were compared and analyzed.
- After treatment, the patients in the two groups had improvements in the scores of symptoms and signs. In comparison of water drinking test, the result in the treatment group was superior to that in the control group (P<0.01).