Evaluating the Therapeutic Effect of Acupuncture on Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients
- Conditions
- Acute Stroke
- Interventions
- Other: acupuncture
- Registration Number
- NCT02210988
- Lead Sponsor
- Cathay General Hospital
- Brief Summary
The investigators design a randomized, single blinded, control study to evaluate the therapeutic effect of acupuncture in acute ischemic stroke patients:
- Detailed Description
Acupuncture therapy in traditional Chinese medicine has been verified in many disease by thousands years. Due to the feasible and relatively safe in acupuncture management, now the west countries had been well document about acupuncture in medicine. The acupuncture therapy applied in post stroke functional recovery has been considered as more benefit than physical therapy only to post stroke rehabilitation. However, the effect of combined acupuncture therapy with standard management in acute stroke patient still remains unknown. The aim of this study is to evaluate the therapeutic effect of acupuncture in acute ischemic stroke patients. The prospective study was designed as a randomized, single blinded, control trial. We collected newly onset of acute ischemic stroke patient without underling systemic major illness, and randomized assign the collected patients into two groups as experimental (acupuncture)group and normal control group. The two groups both treat with routine western medicine as standard stroke therapy. The outcome measurement will evaluate by the changes from baseline at one and three months. The assessed scales including NIH stroke scale, the Barthel index, the Functional Independence Measure score, the Fugl-Meyer Assessment, and the Modified Rankin Scale. We compared the all variable measurements to see if any benefit from acupuncture group than the control group.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 38
- newly onset of acute ischemic stroke,
- without underling systemic major illness
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description acupuncture acupuncture The acupuncture treatment for the intervention group was provided once daily for 2 weeks.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method National Institute of Health Stroke Scale the fourth week Fugal-Mayer Assessment The fourth week Functional Independent Measure The fourth week
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Barthel index The three month after admission Modified Rankin Scale The three after admission National Institute of Health Stroke Scale The three months after admission