Clinical DataCase selection: 100 cases who met thediagnostic criteria of senile dementiaformulated by American Association ofPsychiatry in Handbook of Diagnosis andStatistics (DSM-Ⅲ-R, 3rd revised edition)
Pseudobulbar or supranuclear paralysis is one of the severe complications after stoke. Clinically, it is characterized by dysphagia (difficulty in swallowing), dyslalia (impairment of utterance with abnormality of the...Pseudobulbar or supranuclear paralysis is one of the severe complications after stoke. Clinically, it is characterized by dysphagia (difficulty in swallowing), dyslalia (impairment of utterance with abnormality of the external speech organs) and hoarseness due to bilateral lesions of the corticospinal tract. It may lead to malnutrition and disturbance of metabolism subsequent to dysphagia, or pulmonary infections due to swallowing of foreign bodies into the trachea, and or even death due to suffocation. We have treated such patients by scalp acupuncture1 plus the sublingual needling art initiated by Dr. Liu Jisheng (刘济生). The therapeutic results are satisfactory and reported as follow.展开更多
文摘Clinical DataCase selection: 100 cases who met thediagnostic criteria of senile dementiaformulated by American Association ofPsychiatry in Handbook of Diagnosis andStatistics (DSM-Ⅲ-R, 3rd revised edition)
文摘Pseudobulbar or supranuclear paralysis is one of the severe complications after stoke. Clinically, it is characterized by dysphagia (difficulty in swallowing), dyslalia (impairment of utterance with abnormality of the external speech organs) and hoarseness due to bilateral lesions of the corticospinal tract. It may lead to malnutrition and disturbance of metabolism subsequent to dysphagia, or pulmonary infections due to swallowing of foreign bodies into the trachea, and or even death due to suffocation. We have treated such patients by scalp acupuncture1 plus the sublingual needling art initiated by Dr. Liu Jisheng (刘济生). The therapeutic results are satisfactory and reported as follow.
