Clinical Observation on Post-stroke Elbow Flexor Spasticity Treated with Massage
10.11842/wst.2013.05.046
- VernacularTitle:推拿手法治疗中风后肘关节屈曲痉挛的临床观察
- Author:
Peng ZHENG
;
Xiaohong XU
;
Weimin ZHANG
;
Jian WANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Massage manipulation;
post-stroke elbow flexor spasticity
- From:
World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2013;(5):1029-1031
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
This article was aimed to observe the therapeutic effect of massage manipulation in the treatment of post-stroke elbow flexor spasticity . Stroke cases that met the inclusion criteria were selected . The cases were randomly divided into the treatment group of 48 cases and the control group of 48 cases . The treatment group was treated with massage . And the control group was treated with continuous static stretch technique . The re-sults showed that there was significant difference before and after the treatment in both groups. And the treat-ment group was significantly better than the control group ( P < 0 . 05 ) . It was concluded that massage manipu-lation has obvious effect in the treatment of post-stroke elbow flexor spasticity.