1. Rehabilitation with a combination of scalp acupuncture and exercise therapy in spastic cerebral palsy
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Haozhi Chen, Yangyun Jiang, Xuefeng Yu, Bin Zhao, Luna He, Jing Gao, and Lina Wang
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Activities of daily living ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Acupuncture Therapy ,Traditional Chinese medicine ,Motor Activity ,Treatment and control groups ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Spastic cerebral palsy ,Acupuncture ,medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Medicine, Chinese Traditional ,Child ,Scalp ,Rehabilitation ,business.industry ,Cerebral Palsy ,Exercise therapy ,medicine.disease ,Exercise Therapy ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Complementary and alternative medicine ,Muscle Spasticity ,Child, Preschool ,Physical therapy ,Female ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Purpose To use Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Western approaches to improve gross motor function and activities of daily living (ADL) in children with spastic cerebral palsy. Methods Children were randomly divided into a treatment group, which received scalp acupuncture combined with exercise therapy and conventional rehabilitation training, and a control group, which received conventional rehabilitation training alone. Study subjects’ gross motor function (gross motor function measure-88 [GMFM-88]) and ADL were evaluated before and after therapy. Results GMFM-88 and ADL scores were significantly improved in both groups after therapy, but the within group differences in post- and pre-therapy GMFM-88 and ADL scores were significantly higher in the treatment group compared to the control group. Conclusion Scalp acupuncture combined with exercise therapy and conventional rehabilitation training can significantly improve gross motor function and the ability to perform ADLs in children with spastic cerebral palsy compared to conventional rehabilitation training alone.
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- 2019
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