[Acupuncture treatment for a patient with diffuse axonal injury]

Acupuncture has been used as a therapeutic technique in China, Japan and East Asia. Recently, it is used to treat neural injuries. We describe a 6-year-old boy with consciousness disturbance and heavy muscle spasticity of extremities due to severe diffuse axonal injury (DAI) in whom acupuncture treatment for 6 months alleviated these symptoms remarkably. Acupuncture treatment may be effective to improve consciousness disturbance and heavy spasticity of DAI.