《Chinese Journal of Rehabilitation Theory and Practice》 ›› 2007, Vol. 13 ›› Issue (10): 937-940.

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Advance in Treatment of Post-stroke Cognitive Function Impairment with Acupuncture(review)

WANG Bo, JI Lai-xi, WANG Hai-jun, et al   

  1. Hubei College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wuhan 430065, Hubei, China
  • Received:2007-05-21 Published:2007-10-01 Online:2007-10-01

Abstract: There are three major ways of for the treatments of post-stroke cognitive impairment.Medicine,acupuncture and the cognitive training is the most popular.Both clinical reports and experimental studies proved positive effect of acupuncture to post-stroke cognitive function impairment.There are more clinical reports and comprehensive mechanism studies on the Brain-activating and Orifice-opening Acupuncture than the other two popular treatments of acupuncture for cognitive function impairment.Acupuncture show positive effect on post-stroke cognitive function impairment.Further studies are required to validate whether acupuncture has better curative effect than cognitive training.

Key words: acupuncture, stroke, cognitive function impairment, review