Clinical research progress of electroacupuncture treatment as the main method treating dysphagia after stroke / 国际中医中药杂志

ABSTRACT

This paper reviews the clinical research of electroacupuncture in the treatment of dysphagia after stroke. It is found that electroacupuncture is widely used in the treatment of this disease, either alone, or in combination with rehabilitation training, dysphagia therapeutic apparatus, neuromuscular electrical stimulation, transcranial direct current electrical stimulation, transcranial repeated magnetic stimulation, pricking and bloodletting, auricular point sticking, etc. At present, many methods are used to evaluate the clinical effect, such as water swallow test, video fluoroscopic swallowing study, standard swallowing function evaluation, swallowing disorder evaluation, etc. And electroacupuncture based therapy can effectively improve the swallowing ability of stroke patients.