A study on the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine auricular acupressure combined with abdominal rotation exercises in treating constipation in patients with Parkinson's disease after deep brain stimula-tion surgery
LIU Xiaochen
ZHU Shanshan
CHANG Xiaojie
YANG Xuehui
ZHANG Jianxin
ZHANG Jianbin
Abstract：Objective To explore the effects of traditional Chinese medicine auricular acupressure combined with abdominal rotation exercise on constipation in patients with Parkinson's disease(PD)after deep brain stimulation(DBS)surgery.Methods A total of 102 PD patients who underwent DBS in the Department of Neurosurgery of Shandong Pro-vincial Third Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University and were discharged for home or community rehabilitation from March 2024 to December 2024 were selected as the research subjects.They were randomly divided into the control group and the observation group by random number table method,with 51 cases in each group.The control group was given rou-tine education,while the observation group was treated with traditional Chinese medicine auricular acupressure combined with abdominal rotation exercise on the basis of the control group.The colonic transit test,constipation severity score scale(CSS),and simple 8-item Parkinson's disease questionnaire(PDQ-8)were used to compare the colonic motility function,constipation symptoms,efficacy,and quality of life before and after treatment in the two groups.The levels of inflammato-ry factors C-reactive protein(CRP),interleukin-6(IL-6),and procalcitonin(PCT)before and after treatment were com-pared between the two groups.Results After treatment,the colonic transit test scores,CSS scores,PDQ-8 scores,and serum CRP and IL-6 levels in the observation group were lower than those in the control group,and the effective rate of con-stipation treatment was higher than that in the control group(all P<0.05).Conclusion Traditional Chinese medicine auricular acupressure combined with abdominal rotation exercise can enhance colonic motility function in PD patients after DBS,alleviate the severity of constipation,improve local intestinal inflammatory response,and improve the quality of life of patients.
Keywords：Parkinson's diseasedeep brain stimulationconstipationtraditional Chinese medicine auricular acu-pressureabdominal rotation
Publication Date：2025-08-25
Online Publishing Date：2025-09-17(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 23-27 )