Point Therapy For Different Ages Birth Trauma Cramp The Influence Of The Main Symptoms Of Cerebral Palsy

Purpose:Cerebral palsy not only brings to the patient a great impact of the physical and mental health of the children, but also to the family and the society great burden. This research will use the digital acupoint pressure therapy which has been repeatedly proven effective in the treatment of cerebral palsy, by digital-pressing in treating obstetric spastic cerebral palsy, recording and observing the change of the main clinical symptoms, contrasting the curative effect of children with CP in different age groups, to try to find the basis of seizing the best treatment opportunity.Methods:From January2006to December2011,59cases of obstetric spastic cerebral palsy were collected from Wangjing Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. The patient were divided in months-old into three groups, that were Group A (younger than24months’, not containing the24months’), Group B (24months’to48months’, not containing the48months’), Group C (48months’to96month’, containing the48months’).They were treated with the digital acupoint pressure therapy, about30minutes per treatment, five times a week,40times for one course of treatment. In the beginning of the treatment, the end of one course of treatment,3months later of the end of one course of treatment, ten main-symptoms including intelligence, language, salivation, hand-grasping, thumb-adduction, turnover, sitting, standing, walking, and scissors-gait were recorded and graded. The grades in the main-symptoms of the collected patient with CP, in the beginning of the treatment and3months later of the end of one course of treatment, were Wilcoxon-rank-sum-tested. From a plurality of samples nonparametric Wilcoxon rank sum test, it was concluded whether there was significant difference between the improvement of the symptom before and after the treatment in the three groups. If there was any significant differences between the three groups, differences should be concluded from the rank sum tests between any two of the three.Results:There was a statistical significance, in the comparison of the grades of all the patient after the digital acupoint pressure therapy for3months and before it, for P<0.05. And for P<0.01, in the plurality of samples nonparametric Wilcoxon rank sum test of the three groups, it indicated significant differences between the three groups. From the rank sum tests between any two of the three, it came to P<0.01in the comparison of Group A and Group C with Group B and Group C, and it came to P>0.05in the comparison of Group A and Group B.Conclusion:The curative effect of the digital acupoint pressure therapy on obstetric spastic cerebral palsy for patient younger than48months’was apparently better than for patient older than48months’. But in the comparison of24-48months’children with cerebral palsy and younger than24months’, there was no significant difference.