Complementary & Alternative Medicine
Upper-extremity rehab after stroke not improved by acupuncture
Published in Pain and Central Nervous System Week, February 20th, 2006
In a recent report, researchers in the United States conducted a study "To compare the effects of traditional Chinese acupuncture with sham acupuncture on upper-extremity (UE) function and quality of life (QOL) in patients with chronic hemiparesis from stroke. A prospective, sham-controlled, randomized controlled trial (RCT)."
P.M. Wayne and colleagues of the New England School of Acupuncture wrote, "Patients [were] recruited through a hospital stroke rehabilitation program," and according to researchers included, "[t]hirty-three subjects who incurred a stroke 0.8 to 24...
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