Clinical research progress of acupuncture and moxibustion and Tuina therapy in the treatment of hemiplegia due to cerebral apoplexy / 国际中医中药杂志

This paper reviews the clinical researches on acupuncture and moxibustion and Tuina therapy for hemiplegia, due to cerebral apoplexy. It is found that acupuncture and Tuina therapy mainly includes acupuncture, moxibustion, massage, electroacupuncture, as well as the combination of acupuncture and Chinese medicine, acupuncture and massage therapy or the combination of modern rehabilitation technics. The researches showed that all treatments have good clinical effect and few adverse reactions. However, most of the researches focus on self-control, and lacks comparability. There stilllacks strict RCT and unified standard of operation scheme. Besides, the researches on the mechanism should be strengthened.