Treatment of Hemiplegic Shoulder Pain with Wrist-ankle Acupuncture Combined with Rehabilitation Exercises

Objective To compare the clinical effect of simple rehabitition exercises and wrist-ankle acupuncture combined with rehabitition exercises in treating hemiplegic shoulder pain.Methods Sixty patients of hemiplegic shoulder pain were randomly divided into treatment group(30 case) and control group(30 case).The patients in the treatment group were treated with wrist-ankle acupuncture combined with rehabilitation exercises.The patients in the control group were treated with simple rehabilitation exercises only.Ten days were as one course,next course was started 3 days later.The therapeutic effects were elevated after two courses of treatment.Results The cure rate and marked efficacy rate of the treatment group were 66.7% and 26.7%,respectively;of the control group were 33.3% and 40%,respectively.The total efficacy rate were 93.3% in treatment group and 73.3% in control group.The results of therapy improved more significantly in treatment group than in control group(P0.01).Conclusion Both wrist-ankle acupuncture combined with rehabilitation exercise and simple rehabilitation exercise have a marked therapeutic effect on hemiplegic shoulder pain.But wrist-ankle acupuncture combined with rehabilitation exercise has a better effect.