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[Acupuncture treatment for a patient with diffuse axonal injury--report no. 2]
Hideaki Tamai1, Senichiro Kikuchi, Yoshifumi Kawamura
1Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Graduate School Shimotsuke 329-0498.
Abstract:
Acupuncture has been applied as a therapeutic technique in China, Japan and East Asia. Recently, its application is extended to treat neural injuries. We describe a 26-year-old man with consciousness disturbance and intense muscle spasticity of extremities due to severe diffuse axonal injury (DAI) in whom acupuncture treatment for 1 month was effective to alleviate these symptoms remarkably. We also investigated the cerebral blood flow two times by 123I-IMP SPECT in acupuncture period. Acupuncture treatment may be effective to improve consciousness disturbance and intense spasticity of DAI and to modulate cerebral blood flow.