Randomized Controlled Trial of Comprehensive Treatment of Facial Paralysis with Diabetes Mellitus with Electroacupuncture Chiefly

Objective:To discuss the result of electric-acupuncture therapy for those facial paralysis patients who with diabetes . Methods: 59 patients were randomly assigned to the electric-acupuncture group and the control group, 30 in electric-acupuncture group,29 in the control group. All received conventional Western medical treatment to reduce the FBG ,all received acupuncture therapy. But for patients in the electric acupuncture group, electric acupuncture equipment was used .All the patients facial muscle function was evaluated with scores. Result: the effective rate of electric-acupuncture therapy is 93.3%, better than the control group 72.4%.Conclution: electric-acupuncture therapy works better than only acupuncture therapy