Effect of “Hand and Foot Acupuncture with Twelve Needles” on the Functional Connection between Primary Motor Areas of the Brain and Cerebellum in Patients with Hemiplegia after Ischemic Stroke
CHEN Tianzhu, ZOU Yihuai, DU Zhongming, et al. Effect of “Hand and Foot Acupuncture with Twelve Needles” on the Functional Connection between Primary Motor Areas of the Brain and Cerebellum in Patients with Hemiplegia after Ischemic Stroke[J]. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine2021, 62(17): 1514-1521.
CHEN Tianzhu, ZOU Yihuai, DU Zhongming, et al. Effect of “Hand and Foot Acupuncture with Twelve Needles” on the Functional Connection between Primary Motor Areas of the Brain and Cerebellum in Patients with Hemiplegia after Ischemic Stroke[J]. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine2021, 62(17): 1514-1521.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2021.17.010.
Objective To explore the effect of "hand and foot acupuncture with twelve needles" on the functional connection between primary motor areas(M1) of the brain and cerebellum in patients with hemiplegia after ischemic stroke. Methods Twenty-two patients with hemiplegia after ischemic stroke were divided into a mild to moderate group of 14 cases and a severe group of 8 cases. All the patients were given hand and foot acupuncture with twelve needles as follows: bilateral Hegu(LI 4)