ABSTRACT
Objective To observe the effect of acupuncture plus thunder fire moxibustion plus deglutition training plus VitalStim electrical stimulation on patients with deglutition disorder of early stroke.Methods 80 patients with deglutition disorder of early stroke were randomly divided into treatment group and control group,40 cases in each group.The treatment group was treated with acupuncture plus thunder fire moxibustion plus deglutition training plus VitalStim electrical stimulation,while the control group was only treated with deglutition training.The therapeutic effects of all patients were assessed by using drinking experiment before therapy and twenty times after therapy. Results The total effective rate of the treatment group was 97.5%,which was significantly higher than 82.5% of the control group,the difference was statistically significant(χ2 =12.50,P <0.05).Watian integration of the two groups were decreased after treatment,the difference was significant(t =5.606,9.056,all P <0.05),which of the treatment group was significantly lower than the control group,the difference was statistically significant(t =3.044,P <0.05). The lung infection rate and malnutrition rates in the control group were 10.0% and 20.0%,which were significantly higher than those in the treatment group(2.5% and 5.0%),the differences were statistically significance(χ2 =4.80, 10.29,all P <0.05).Conclusion Acupuncture plus thunder fire moxibustion plus deglutition training plus VitalS-tim electrical stimulation are beneficial to the recovery of swallowing functions to early swallowing disorder in patients and could avoid the incidence of aspiration pneumonia and malnutrition.