Acupuncture Therapy Combined With Breathing Training for Patients With Stroke Complicated

Hebei Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke; Lung Diseases

Treatments: Behavioral: Rehabilitation therapy; Behavioral: Breathing training; Drug: Conventional drug therapy; Device: TCM acupuncture therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05930262

ACS002

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this prospective randomized controlled study is to explore the clinical efficacy of acupuncture therapy combined with breathing training in patients with stroke complicated with pulmonary infection. The intervention group and control group were treated with conventional drug therapy, rehabilitation therapy and breathing training for 2 consecutive weeks. On this basis, the intervention group additionally received acupuncture therapy. To evaluate the clinical efficacy of both groups.

Full description

To explore the clinical efficacy of acupuncture therapy combined with breathing training in patients with stroke complicated with pulmonary infection. Using a prospective randomized controlled study, 72 patients with pulmonary infection after stroke admitted to our hospital from May 2020 to May 2021 were randomly divided into the intervention group and control group, with 36 patients in each group. Both groups were treated with conventional drug therapy, rehabilitation therapy and breathing training for 2 consecutive weeks. On this basis, the intervention group additionally received acupuncture therapy. The traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) syndrome score and clinical pulmonary infection score (CPIS) before and after treatment, time of fever relieving, time for the disappearance of cough, expectoration and moist rales in the lung, white blood cell count (WBC), serum C-reactive protein (CRP) level, calcitonin (PCT) level and pulmonary indexes were compared between the 2 groups, respectively, to evaluate clinical efficacy.

Enrollment: 72 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 28 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Meeting the diagnostic criteria of Western medicine for stroke complicated with pneumonia
• conforming to the TCM syndrome of vital qi deficiency and phlegm-heat obstructing the lung
• confirmed as the initial onset of stroke through CT or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• clear consciousness, no cognitive impairment, and ability to cooperate with pulmonary function assessment and rehabilitation training
• willingness to participate in this study and sign the informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with systemic multi-organ failure such as the heart, brain, kidney, etc
• patients with a coronary metal stent or pacemaker implantation
• patients with malignant tumors
• patients with severe cognitive impairment, depression or mental disorders
• patients with pulmonary infections before stroke or caused by other causes
• patients in the acute phase of infection

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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72 participants in 2 patient groups

the intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

TCM acupuncture therapy Conventional drug therapy Rehabilitation therapy Breathing training

Treatment:

Drug: Conventional drug therapy

Behavioral: Rehabilitation therapy

Behavioral: Breathing training

Device: TCM acupuncture therapy

the control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Conventional drug therapy Rehabilitation therapy Breathing training

Treatment:

Drug: Conventional drug therapy

Behavioral: Rehabilitation therapy

Behavioral: Breathing training