Effect of Jin's Three-needle Acupuncture Combined with Occupational Therapy on Function of Upper Limbs for Stroke Patients with Hemiplegia
SHI Su-ning
YU Hong-yu
CONG Zhuang
SUN Cui-cui
CHI Xin-xin
Abstract：Objective To explore the effects of Jin's Three-needle Acupuncture combined with occupational therapy on function of up-per limbs for stroke patients with hemiplegia. Methods 90 patients with stroke were randomly divided into control group (n=30), observa-tion group (n=30) and experiment group (n=30). The control group received routine rehabilitation, the observation group received occupa-tional therapy in addition, and the experiment group received Jin's Three-needle Acupuncture and occupational therapy in addition. They were assessed with Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA) of upper limbs and Barthel index (BI) before and 4 weeks after treatment. Results The scores of FMA and BI improved in all the groups after treatment (P<0.001). The difference of scores of FMA and BI before and after treat-ment were more in the experiment group than in the observation group (P<0.001), observation group than the control group (P<0.001). Con-clusion Jin's Three-needle Acupuncture combined with occupational therapy can further improve the motor function of upper limbs and ac-tivities of daily living for stroke patients with hemiplegia.
Keywords：strokeJin's Three-needle Acupunctureoccupational therapyupper limbsmotor functionactivities of daily living
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 867-869 )