Warm needling on the four knee acupoints combined with Chinese herb in the treatment of knee pain after stroke
Affiliation:
1. Graduate School of East-West Medical Science, Kyung Hee University, Gyeonggi-do 449-701, Republic of Korea;2. Department of Chemistry, College of Life Science and Nano-Technology, Hannam University, Daejeon 305-811, Republic of Korea;1. The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China;2. Faculty of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia;3. Kiang Wu Hospital, Macau, China;4. School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China;1. Institute of Nutrition and Functional Foods (INAF), Laval University, 2440 Hochelaga Blvd, Quebec City, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada;2. CHU de Québec Research Center – Endocrinology and Nephrology, 2705 Laurier Blvd, Quebec City, QC, G1V 4G2, Canada
Abstract:
ObjectiveTo observe the clinical efficacy of warm needling on the four knee acupoints in the treatment of knee pain after stroke on the basis of Chinese herb.MethodsSixty patients with knee pain after stroke were divided into a group A and a group B by random allocation, with 30 patients in each group. Patients in the group B only received the treatment by Chinese herb, which called Dúhuó Jìshēng Tāng (