Pseudobulbar Palsy after Stroke
Syndrome pseudo-bulbaire post-AVC : évaluation de l'acupuncture
| ☆☆☆ | Evidence for effectiveness and a specific effect of acupuncture |
| ☆☆ | Evidence for effectiveness of acupuncture |
| ☆ | Limited evidence for effectiveness of acupuncture |
| Ø | No evidence or insufficient evidence |
1.1. Li Sheng 2011 ☆
Li Sheng, Fu Li-Xin, Huang Xiao-Dong. [Systematic review of acupuncture for treatment of pseudobulbar palsy due to wind stroke in clinical studies]. Journal of Clinical Acupuncture and Moxibustion. 2011. 27(1):1. [174375].
| Objective | To assess the effectiveness of acupuncture for treatment of pseudobulbar palsy due to wind stroke. |
| Methods | According to the requirement of evidence - based medicine, acupuncture, moxibustion, pseudobulbar palsy, etc. were selected as subject words to retrieve the relative medical database at home, and clinically randomized controlled trials were used as enrolled criteria, and the treatment group was treated with the main therapy of acupuncture, and the control group with medicine, the total effective rate and cured rate for pseudobulbar palsy were used as assessment indexes. Altogether 52 papers were enrolled. Among them 7 papers were conducted for Meta - analysis by RevMan 4. 2. |
| Results | The total RR was 173 with 95% CI [1. 37,2. 20] of the total effective rate in the 7 studies; and the total RR was 3. 30 with 95% CI [2. 07,5. 25] of the cure rate in the 7 studies; Each index in the acupuncture group on pseudobulbar palsy was superior to that of the western medicine (P <0.01). |
| Conclusions | Acupuncture therapy for pseudobulbar palsy is effective, but more highly-quality studies are required to prove this viewpoint. |
