Clinical Study on Acupuncture Treatment for Parkinson's Non-motor Symptoms

VernacularTitle:针灸治疗帕金森病非运动症状的临床研究
Author: Xin-Xin CHEN ¹ ; Shi-Zheng ZHANG ; Cheng-Cheng SONG ; Fei-Fei LIN ; Jian-Ping HUANG
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1. 浙江中医药大学附属温州市中医院
Keywords: Parkinson disease; Acupuncture therapy; Non-motor symptoms; Review
From: Shanghai Journal of Acupuncture and Moxibustion 2018;37(2):248-252
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Parkinson disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder resulting from alpha-synuclein lesions, which affects about eight million patients over the world. PD is manifested in progressive motor and non-motor symptoms. With understanding of PD gradually deepened, motor symptoms mainly manifested in resting tremor are not the only manifestations of PD. Clinically many non-motor symptoms such as autonomic nervous symptoms, mental symptoms and paresthesia are also the important manifestations of PD and can appear earlier than motor symptoms. The effect of the non-motor symptoms on the patients' life is often not less than that of the motor symptoms. Clinically the changeable non-motor symptoms are far more complex and more difficult to treat than the motor symptoms. Conventional anti-PD drugs such as levodopa have little effect on the non-motor symptoms. Present clinical studies have showed that acupuncture has a certain therapeutic effect on the non-motor symptoms of PD. This provides important help for expanding the way to treat PD.