[Acupuncture technique of Jingou Diaoyu combined with speech rehabilitation training for post-stroke motor aphasia].

OBJECTIVE

To compare the clinical efficacy of the acupuncture technique of Jingou Diaoyu combined with speech rehabilitation training and speech rehabilitation training alone for post-stroke motor aphasia.

METHODS

A total of 70 patients with post-stroke motor aphasia were randomly divided into an observation group and a control group, 35 cases in each group. The patients in the control group were treated with basic treatment and speech rehabilitation training; on the basis of the control group, the patients in the observation group were treated with the acupuncture technique of Jingou Diaoyu at Yamen (GV 15), Jinjin (EX-HN 12), Yuye (EX-HN 13), and Hegu (LI 4) etc., once a day, 6 days per week, for a total of 4 weeks. The speech function score, aphasia grade, daily life speech ability score of the two groups before and after treatment were observed, and the clinical efficacy was evaluated.

RESULTS

The total effective rate was 94.3% (33/35) in the observation group, which was superior to 80.0% (28/35) in the control group (P<0.05). In addition to listening comprehension, each score of speech function in the two groups was significantly increased after treatment (P<0.05), and the increasing in the observation group was greater than that in the control group (P<0.05). After treatment, the aphasia grade of the two groups were improved (P<0.05), and the aphasia grade in the observation group was significantly better than that in the control group (P<0.05). After treatment, the scores of daily life speech ability in the two groups were significantly improved (P<0.05), and the increasing in the observation group was greater than that in the control group (P<0.05).

CONCLUSION

The acupuncture technique of Jingou Diaoyu combined with speech rehabilitation training could improve the speech function of patients with post-stroke motor aphasia, and its curative effect is superior to the speech rehabilitation training alone.