Literature Research Of Acupuncture Therapy On Shoulder-hand Syndrome After Stroke

Objective:Summarize the laws of acupoints and specialty needle methods of modern acupuncture treatment for shoulder-hand syndrome after stroke, providing point prescriptions reference and special needle methods for the clinical treatment of the disease.Method:Using combination of computer and manual research method to retrieval retrieval domestic acupuncture articles, Chinese medicine journals regard to shoulder-hand syndrome after stroke during2009to2013from Chinese literature CNKI, VIP database, WANGFANG database and China biological medicine database. Retrieval time is set from January2009to December2013, the search term is limited to "post-stroke shoulder-hand syndrome" or shoulder-hand syndrome after stroke,""shoulder pain after stroke" or post-stroke shoulder pain." Interventions is set to "acupuncture" or needle." Frequency, percentage rate are used to describe acupuncture points, partial points, channel course, specific acupoints application, prescription compatibility and features of special needle methods which are used for treatment of shoulder-hand syndrome after stroke. At the same time, sorting results in tabular form. The intention is exploring point selection rule and special needle methods for the treatment of shoulder-hand syndrome after stroke.Result:Selection of points with high frequency include:JianYu, Qu Chi, Wai Guan, He Gu, Jian Liao, Jian Zhen, etc. which from yang Meridians, at the same time, Compatibility of JianYu, Qu Chi and He Gu etc. have the highest frequency, which mainly districted in the department of limps, craniofacial and the small of the back. Specific points mainly contain well points in the five streaming points, source points collection points and eight confluenence points. Meridians includes three Yang channels of Hand and Foot-Yang Ming etc. Special needle methods means electro-acupuncture, warm needle acupuncture, abdominal acupuncture, balance needles, scalp needles, floating needles, fire-needles.Conclus i on:Acupoints selection of shoulder-hand syndrome after stroke main from yang Meridians, especially from LI, TE, SI; local points selection is on upper portion; Specific points mainly contain five streaming points. features of special needle methods involve needle warming moxibustion and electro-acupuncture. we can summarize the law as follows:"treating yang for yin diseases ","treatment for flaccidity aims at yangming meridian", reinforce insufficiency and reduce excessiveness" principles and so on. Special needle methods are mostly electro-acupuncture, warm needle acupuncture, and combination of a variety of acupuncture methods.