Effect of Rehabilitation of Traditional Chinese Medicine or Neurophysiological Therapy on Recovering Stroke Patients / 中国康复理论与实践

ABSTRACT

@#Objective To explore the effect of the rehabilitation of Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM)and neurophysiological therapy(NPT)on motor function in patients with stroke.Methods62 patients with ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke at the recovery stage were divided into two groups.They were given the routine medical treatment and rehabilitation.The patients in the TCM group were given rehabilitation of TCM,while the patients in the control group were given rehabilitation of NPT.They were evaluated with Fugl-Meyer Assessment(FMA)and the Barthel Index(BI)at the beginning and the end of the treatment.ResultsAfter the treatments,the scores of FMA and BI improved obviously in both groups.The BI of the TCM group improved more than that of the control group after the treatments(P=0.015).But the improvement of the FMA between these two groups was not significant.ConclusionBoth the rehabilitation of TCM and NPT can significantly improve the function of stroke patients during the convalescent stage,and TCM is more effective on activity of daily living.